Donald Trump thinks trade is a zero-sum game. Xi Jinping appears happy to wait for the trade war to backfire on the US president.
In the video,volunteers in campaign T-shirts say they were required to vote for the teal MP by the Hubei Association.
First came the AI-generated videos depicting Americans working in sweatshops. Since then,it’s been open slather,gifting Beijing a PR win.
The US president has flagged that he will lower his unprecedented 145 per cent tariffs on Chinese goods and “won’t play hardball”.
Before attending an Easter Mass in Sydney,Anthony Albanese recorded an episode of popular British podcast The Rest is Politics.
No Pope has set foot in China,but Francis wants that to change. Critics say the cost of doing deals with Beijing has already been too high.
China has been practising unusual manoeuvres off its southern coast involving three special barges. Experts say it changes the equation on Beijing’s war readiness.
Chinese manufacturers purportedly behind big-name American brands are hitting back at US tariffs. But experts are questioning their legitimacy.
Donald Trump has already hit out at Xi Jinping’s visit to Vietnam,accusing the two sides of “trying to figure out,‘How do we screw the United States of America?’ ”
The volatility so far this month might be just a reaction to Trump’s tariffs. It might also reflect a structural threat.