U.S. Dependence on China for Rare Earth Magnets Is Causing Shortages The United States allowed its rare earth metals industry to move to China and could now face severe economic disruption as China limits crucial […]

Trump Targets a Plane China Sees as a Power Symbol Beijing has high hopes for its C919 single-aisle jet after years of delay, but the plane depends on engines, avionics and other gear from Western […]

Export Controls Are Endangering the Fragile U.S.-China Truce Just two-and-a-half weeks after agreeing to suspend tariffs, both countries are using export controls to disrupt each other’s key industries.After s […]

Doing Business in China Is Getting Harder, but Its Exports Are Hard to Resist European companies operating in China say the market has become increasingly challenging because of weak economic demand and opaque government rules on […]

Elon Musk Warns China’s Rare Earth Restrictions May Delay Tesla Robots China’s halt this month on exports of magnets containing heavy rare earth metals has affected Tesla’s plans to manufacture Optimus robots.Elon Musk, the chi […]

An Army of Robots Is China’s Weapon in Trump’s Tariff War China’s secret weapon in the trade war is an army of factory robots, powered by artificial intelligence, that have revolutionized manufacturing.Factories a […]

CATL Announces Major Advances in E.V. Batteries CATL, the world’s largest maker of batteries for electric vehicles, described breakthroughs that could make E.V.s more competitive with gasoline-powered c […]

U.S. Gas Exports to China Stopped After Beijing Imposed Tariffs The United States accounted for only 3 percent of China’s natural gas imports last year. Those purchases could now dry up entirely in the trade war.China h […]

How China Took Over the World’s Rare Earths Industry China seized mines and built factories. Japan took note and invested in Australia. But the United States did little despite concerns about control of […]

China Girds for Economic Stress of Trump’s Tariffs The economy grew steadily from January through March, but U.S. tariffs pose a risk for China in the coming weeks and months.President Trump’s tariffs have b […]

China Halts Critical Rare Earth Exports as Trade War Intensifies Beijing has suspended exports of certain rare earth minerals and magnets that are crucial for the world’s car, semiconductor and aerospace i […]

Inside Factories in China, a Struggle to Survive Trump’s Tariffs Small factories with tiny profit margins have played a central role in China’s international competitiveness. Many could now face disaster.As President T […]

China Hits Back Again at Trump, Bringing New Tariffs on U.S. Goods to 84% Beijing on Wednesday aimed the latest blow in the escalating trade war between the United States and Washington, with plans to raise new tariffs on all […]

China Condemns American ‘Protectionism’ The Chinese government on Wednesday issued a lengthy denunciation of American trade policies, accusing the United States of years of protectionism and of […]

‘The Tsunami Is Coming’: China’s Global Exports Are Just Getting Started A staggering $1.9 trillion in extra industrial lending is fueling a continued flood of exports that could be spread even wider across the world by the Trump […]

Trump’s Trade War Escalates as China Retaliates With 34% Tariffs China has struck back at President Trump on Friday.In a rapid fire series of policy announcements, including 34 percent across-the-board tariffs, three […]

Trump Blocked America’s Front Door to China. Now He’s Closing Back Doors. The U.S. tariffs on transshipment countries like Vietnam and Cambodia are so steep that they could force a major reassessment of global supply chains.With […]

Trump’s Threatened Tariff on Buyers of Venezuelan Oil Could Squeeze China Venezuela owes China’s banks about $10 billion, and its oil is about the only legal way it has to pay them back.President Trump’s threatened tariffs on cou […]

Stocks Fall Further as Concern About Tariffs Deepens Markets in Asia reflected investors’ continued worries about the economic disruption of President Trump’s trade policies.Share prices fell sharply for a sec […]

China Will Face at Least 54 Percent Tariffs With Trump’s New Order With the new tariffs announced on Wednesday in Washington, President Trump has now imposed additional tariffs on Chinese goods of 54 percent — an e […]