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U.S.-China Agree on Trade Consultation Platform amid Sky-High Tariffs
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The United States and China have agreed to establish a new platform for more tariff negotiations after two days of talks in Geneva, aimed at lowering trade tensions....
By Emily Kilcrease
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The U.S.-China Trade Meeting’s Low Bar: Progress
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President Donald Trump signaled Friday that his soaring tariffs on China may soon begin to drop. That doesn’t mean the two countries are close to a deal....
By Emily Kilcrease
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Trump Officials Weigh Fast-Tracking Deals With Gulf Wealth Funds
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Trump officials have internally discussed potentially granting the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Qatar a special fast-track status for deals, a move that could smooth...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Trump’s Tariff on Foreign-Made Films Is on Shaky Legal Ground: ‘How on Earth Are They Going to Enforce This?’
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President Trump is on shaky legal ground if he follows through on a plan to impose a 100% tariff on films produced “in foreign lands.” Experts agree that the pledge is legally...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Trump’s Fixation on a Tariff Battle Win Against China Could Cost Him the Trade War
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President Donald Trump bet that his 145 percent tariff on Chinese imports would bring Chinese leader Xi Jinping running to cut a deal on trade....
By Emily Kilcrease
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What 'Unprecedented' U.S. Tariffs Mean For Europe
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US President Donald Trump's April 2 announcement to raise tariffs to the highest level in more than 100 years has sent stock markets tumbling and shaken the global economy....
By Emily Kilcrease
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Trump’s Tariffs Are Hitting China’s Friends Hard — and Giving Beijing a Golden Opportunity
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President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs are expected to cut deep against both friend and foe, but several of the nations that stand to suffer the most are right on China's d...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Here’s How Trump Tariffs Were Calculated and Why Experts Are Raising Concerns with the Methodology?
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As President Donald Trump unveiled sweeping tariffs against America’s trading partners, he repeatedly emphasized that each country’s rate was determined by a reciprocal formul...
By Emily Kilcrease
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No Tariff ‘Liberation’ for China
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“The only way this gets resolved is through a leader-level summit that both leaders would have to be open to, but China is backed into a corner with a tariff rate this high,” ...
By Emily Kilcrease
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How Are Trump’s Tariff Rates Calculated?
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As he unfurled his list of tariffs targeting most of America’s trading partners, President Trump repeatedly stressed that each nation’s rate was reciprocal — reflecting the ba...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Trump Weighs an Economic Assault on the ‘One Big, Juicy Target Left’ in Russia: Its Oil
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The U.S. is weighing an all-out economic assault on the lifeblood of Russia’s economy, its energy exports, in what analysts say would be a dramatic, potentially high-risk move...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Want to Play a Game? Global Trade War Is the New Washington Pastime.
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The world’s biggest powers were deep in a trade war. Economic losses from the tariffs that President Trump had imposed on most of the world, along with global retaliation, wer...
By Emily Kilcrease & Geoffrey Gertz
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Major Canada-U.S. Talks Are Coming — Here’s What’s in Play
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Canada's prime minister, whoever that is in a few weeks, is about to walk straight into a historic crossroads....
By Geoffrey Gertz & Emily Kilcrease
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If Trump Wants New Pressure on Moscow, Oil and Gas Is 'Only Thing Left'
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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the United States can do "devastating" things to Russia's economy to put pressure on Moscow to accept a peace deal with Ukraine....
By Emily Kilcrease
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Trump Barrels Toward China Trade War
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US President Donald Trump wasted little time imposing tariffs of 20% on China that could presage more drastic actions as he moves to derisk from Beijing and counter overcapaci...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Could Chinese Cars Still Enter the United States?
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As the sun sets on the Biden administration, it is preparing one last maneuver that could prevent Chinese cars from driving on American roads for years to come. The Departmen...
By Emily Kilcrease
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A U.S. Ban on Investing in Chinese AI Startups Could Escalate Under Trump
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Late last month, the US Treasury Department finalized new restrictions limiting what kinds of Chinese tech startups US venture capital firms can invest in for national securit...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Export Controls Failed to Keep Cutting-Edge AI Chips from China’s Huawei
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TAIPEI, Taiwan — A few weeks ago, analysts at a specialized technological lab put a microchip from China under a powerful microscope. Something didn’t look right. Figuring out...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Ready or Not: Are American Multinationals Prepared for the Taiwan Contingency?
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Threading that needle might not be so simple if a major crisis is brewing in the strait. Emily Kilcrease, a senior fellow and director of the Energy, Economics and Security Pr...
By Emily Kilcrease
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How National Security Has Transformed Economic Policy
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“There is no set of norms, rules or institutions to guide these interventions, now that we have blown open the barn doors using national security justification,” says Emily Ki...
By Emily Kilcrease
