Tag: trade war
Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, September 18
Who is Christine Blasey Ford, catastrophic and historic flooding, Trumps sets up tariffs, and more.
Trump initiates new tariffs on hundreds of products from China
Beijing has said before that its prepared to retaliate with even higher tariffs on American imports.
Beijing’s bid for global power in the age of Trump
“America first” versus China’s strategy of the four continents.
Trump’s Trade Wars
He’s put tariffs, which are essentially taxes, on what they sell to us. And they’ve retaliated by putting tariffs on what we sell to them.
Wait, you’re sanctioning us?!
It's time for the world to blacklist Trump, his associates, and his businesses.
Farmers need a $12 billion bailout from government to offset Trump’s...
The retaliated tariffs on U.S. agriculture exports targets many farm states that have a political importance to the president.
Are tariffs good or bad?
Tariffs have been around for centuries and will stay despite all the free trade agreements.
$83 billion West Virginia petrochemical deal with China on skids due...
The deal would be worth more than the total gross domestic product of West Virginia, which was $76.8 billion in 2017.
Trump’s Hobbesian trade war
If you have a device such as a phone, a laptop, any notebook or tablet, Trump is stepping on you.
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Unions win settlement forcing Trump administration to rescind shutdown mass-firing policy
The agreement follows a court fight that began after roughly 4,200 federal employees received layoff notices during last fall's 43-day shutdown.
Federal judge orders White House to restore access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico
The order lasts 14 days, and the outlets have until Monday to seek a preliminary injunction after some reporters were briefly turned away despite the ruling.
The best comeuppance for the first anti-American administration – perpetual exposure as the seditious...
If Russia or China wanted a Manchurian candidate (a brainwashed stooge who betrays his own background and constituency), could they have surpassed the president harumphing in the White House?
Why didn’t Netanyahu’s cabinet preempt October 7 (since it knew about it in advance)?
New York Times reporting confirms Israeli leadership had advance intelligence before the October 7 attack, raising fresh questions about why it was not acted on.