Economic Scene: Trump Isn’t Wrong on China Currency Manipulation, Just Late

April 11, 2017 Eduardo Porter ECONOMIC SCENE Has the United States mismanaged the ascent of China? By April 15, the Treasury Department is required to present to Congress a report on the exchange rate policies of the country’s major trading partners, intended to...

Economic Scene: Trump Isn’t Wrong on China Currency Manipulation, Just Late

April 11, 2017 Eduardo Porter ECONOMIC SCENE Has the United States mismanaged the ascent of China? By April 15, the Treasury Department is required to present to Congress a report on the exchange rate policies of the country’s major trading partners, intended to...

Imperfect Partners: How Trump Can Improve the Messy U.S.-Chinese Economic Relationship

Imperfect Partners By NEIL IRWIN April 6, 2017 The United States and China are locked in a mutually dependent, frequently dysfunctional economic partnership. The world’s biggest and second-biggest economies are like a married couple that complain about...

News Analysis: Trump Talks Tough on Trade but Delays Real Action

News Analysis By KEITH BRADSHER March 31, 2017 SHANGHAI — President Trump appeared to follow through on Friday on his promises to get tough on trade with China, less than a week before he is to meet with President Xi Jinping of China. In two executive...

China’s Taxes on Imported Cars Feed Trade Tensions With U.S.

By KEITH BRADSHER March 20, 2017 BEIJING — A Jeep Wrangler can cost $30,000 more in China than in the United States — and the reasons illustrate a growing point of tension between the two countries. Manufactured in Toledo, Ohio, the Wrangler is a...

News Analysis: Trump Foreign Policy Quickly Loses Its Sharp Edge

He is proving to be less of a radical than either his campaign statements or his tempestuous early phone calls with foreign leaders would suggest.