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...

Within Hours, Plans for a Quiet Corner of China Send Home Prices Soaring

By AILIN TANG April 3, 2017 SHANGHAI — Until it became the subject of China’s latest property-buying frenzy, sending shares of construction companies soaring and leading the authorities to close local real estate offices, the area around...

Within Hours, Plans for a Quiet Corner of China Send Home Prices Soaring

By AILIN TANG April 3, 2017 SHANGHAI — Until it became the subject of China’s latest property-buying frenzy, sending shares of construction companies soaring and leading the authorities to close local real estate offices, the area around...

A Small Idaho Town Bucks the Perception of Rural Struggle

By KIRK JOHNSON April 3, 2017 TWIN FALLS, Idaho — Lost jobs, empty storefronts and shrinking populations. It’s an image of rural America ingrained in many people’s minds, and one that was often reinforced in the election. The reality is far...

A Small Idaho Town Bucks the Perception of Rural Struggle

By KIRK JOHNSON April 3, 2017 TWIN FALLS, Idaho — Lost jobs, empty storefronts and shrinking populations. It’s an image of rural America ingrained in many people’s minds, and one that was often reinforced in the election. The reality is far...

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...