Trump apparently signalled regret about the latest escalation in the trade war -- but the White House later issued a denial/ Trump apparently signalled regret about the latest escalation in the trade war -- but the White House later issued a denial (AFP Photo/Andrew Harnik)/ President Donald ...
Donald Trump admitted on Sunday to having second thoughts about raising tariffs against China, sparking brief hopes of a possible truce in the trans-Pacific trade war. But his spokeswoman later insisted the only regret the president had was not imposing even greater tariffs. It appeared to be ...
President Trump at the G-7 summit in Biarritz, France, Aug. 25, 2019. (Photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)/ White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow asserted ’s threat to block trade between private Americans businesses and China, saying he has “emergency economic power authority” to do so. ...
Sunday morning in which he expressed regret over his escalating trade war with China, claiming that the president didn’t “hear the question” when asked if he had second thoughts. During a breakfast meeting with British prime minister at the G7 on Sunday morning, Trump told reporters that he had ...
told reporters Sunday that he has had “second thoughts” about his escalating trade war with China, but the White House insists that this should not be viewed as misgivings over imposing tariffs./ During a working breakfast with British Prime Minister , Trump was asked if he had any regrets about ...
President Trump, at the G7 summit in Biarritz, France, once again caught off guard allies who disagree with him on trade tariffs, global warming, Russia and China./ In an unexpected move, Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, has arrived in Biarritz to meet with world leaders — though ...
Talks between Washington and Beijing on ending what President Trump says is a massively unfair trade relationship have hit a brick wall (AFP Photo/Andrew Harnik)/ Biarritz (France) (AFP) - President Donald Trump on Sunday denied that his trade war with China is causing friction at the G7 summit, ...
- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. Donald Trump acknowledged having second thoughts on escalating the trade war with China -- only for his top spokeswoman to later say he meant he regretted not raising tariffs even more. White ...
BIARRITZ, France — President Donald Trump signaled Sunday that he may be having regrets over his with China, but the White House backtracked a few hours later and said he had been misunderstood. , Trump said “yeah” when a reporter asked if he was having second thoughts about how the trade ...
54PM [Updated: Sat Aug 24, 2019 06:09PM ]/ US President Donald Trump has correctly recognized that American companies that have offshored US manufacturing to low wage countries like China are the primary reason for the massive US trade deficit and loss of millions of factory jobs in the US, says ...
51PM [Updated: Sun Aug 25, 2019 05:56PM ]/ The administration of US President Donald trump views China as the “primary enemy” amid a growing divide between political and business leaders in the United States over how Washington should treat China’s growing military and economic threat, an ...
39AM [Updated: Sun Aug 25, 2019 09:39AM ]/ US President Donald Trump reacts as he attends a working session on "International Economy and Trade, and International Security Agenda" in Biarritz, south-west France on August 25, 2019. (AFP photo)/ President Donald Trump on Sunday denied that his ...
19AM [Updated: Sun Aug 25, 2019 05:19AM ]/ The American elite is divided over what the economic relationship between the United States and China should be like, says a political analyst. Keith Preston made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Saturday when asked about President Donald ...
The Syrian president says government forces had expelled "outlawed groups" in Suweida city/ Syria's interim president has said it is his "priority" to protect the country's Druze citizens, after Israel vowed to destroy government forces it accused of attacking members of the religious minority ...
A fresh wave of deadly sectarian violence has rocked Syria, putting into focus the country's fragile security landscape as the new government attempts to impose its authority over the fractured territory. On Sunday 13 July, the reported abduction of a merchant from the Druze minority sparked ...
Israel's military struck the Syrian defence ministry in Damascus and government forces in southern Syria on Wednesday, as deadly sectarian fighting in the mostly Druze province of Suweida continued for a fourth day. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said its forces were "working to save ...
Casualties from the incident were brought to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis/ Twenty people trying to get food have been killed "amid a chaotic and dangerous surge" at an aid distribution centre in southern Gaza, the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) says. Nineteen were ...
Hezbollah leader Sheikh Naim Qassem addressed supporters in Beirut on 6 July/ At least 12 people have been killed in Israeli air strikes in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley, a regional governor says. Seven Syrians, including a family of five, and three Lebanese were killed when the Wadi Faara area ...
Nimisha Priya is currently lodged in the central jail of Yemen's capital Sanaa/ Authorities in Yemen have postponed the execution of an Indian nurse who is on death row after being found guilty of murder, Indian foreign ministry sources say. for killing a local man, was set to be executed on 16 ...
Syria's defence minister announced a ceasefire as government forces entered Suweida city on Tuesday/ Israel says it has bombed Syrian government forces around Suweida, as they entered the predominantly Druze city following two days of deadly sectarian clashes. About 100 people have reportedly ...
Ten people were killed as they gathered near a water distribution point in Nuseirat refugee camp/ Mahmoud Abdul Rahman Ahmed says his son, Abdullah, was "searching for a sip of water" when he took the family's jerrycans on Sunday morning and headed as usual to one of the water distribution ...
A BBC documentary about Gaza breached editorial guidelines on accuracy by failing to disclose the narrator was the son of a Hamas official, the corporation's review has found. BBC director general Tim Davie commissioned the review into Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone, after it was in February ...
Syria's interior ministry said security forces were deployed to try to restore calm/ At least 30 people have been killed in armed clashes between Sunni Bedouin tribal fighters and Druze militias in southern Syria, the country's interior ministry says. The violence erupted in the predominantly ...