Las inversiones y avances industriales de China están produciendo una oleada de exportaciones que amenaza con provocar cierres de fábricas y despidos en EE. UU. y el resto del mundo.
The president said he would counter Beijing’s tariffs, which came in response to Mr. Trump’s own levies, with even more tariffs on Chinese imports.
Instead of making our strategy America against the whole world on tariffs, Trump should have made it all the industrial democracies, led by America, against China.
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 tariffs.
Faced with economic disruption, Beijing is presenting itself as too powerful to succumb to U.S. pressure. It is also censoring criticism at home.
Faced with economic disruption, Beijing is presenting itself as too powerful to succumb to U.S. pressure and casting itself as a responsible champion of fair trade.
For the billions of people who still live in poverty, the path to prosperity may look very different than it has since World War II.
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China is the third-biggest buyer of U.S. agricultural products. Now that it has punched back with tariffs on American goods, farmers can expect to feel the pain.
The app was facing a Saturday deadline to change its ownership or face a ban in the United States.
El gobierno chino dijo que igualaría los aranceles del presidente Trump, y también prohibió a un grupo de empresas estadounidenses hacer negocios en China.
A rapidly escalating trade war has socked stocks as investors weigh the fallout from President Trump’s tariff barrage.
The European Union is deepening other trade partnerships as U.S. relations sour. But with China, the relationship could get closer — or more combative.
The Chinese government said it would match President Trump’s tariff, and also barred a group of American companies from doing business in China.
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.
Venezuela owes China’s banks about $10 billion, and its oil is about the only legal way it has to pay them back.
A nonprofit group said the president misapplied a law in imposing those levies and portrayed its filing as the first lawsuit to challenge the Trump administration over its tariffs.
El mensaje de Pekín a EE. UU. es: no les tenemos miedo. Ustedes no son quienes creen que son, y nosotros no somos quienes creen que somos.
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The loophole has allowed retailers to send goods from China directly to U.S. shoppers without paying tariffs. Closing it could raise consumer prices.
Donald Trump ha elevado los derechos de importación estadounidenses a sus niveles más altos en más de un siglo. Aliados y adversarios se esfuerzan por entenderlo.
The company counts on the sale of devices for three-quarters of its nearly $400 billion in annual revenue, and it makes almost all of its iPhones, iPads and Macs overseas.
The combination of lower oil prices and higher costs for essential materials like steel pipe threatens to squeeze domestic oil and gas producers.
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Not even America’s closest trading partners were spared by a policy broadside that spooked investors and left policymakers scrambling to formulate responses.
President Trump’s announcement went beyond most predictions, showing a greater willingness to follow his instincts even when critics — and some allies — consider failure a likely outcome.
Unas embarcaciones que forman un largo puente desde aguas más profundas hasta la costa podrían ampliar las opciones de China para desembarcar en Taiwán.
The scene in the Chinese territory is concentrated at a few beaches with inconsistent swell. One intrepid surfer says it’s all about “turning nothing into something.”
The 34 percent tariff announced on Wednesday is in addition to two rounds of import taxes the president already imposed since January.
El presidente impuso gravámenes a las importaciones de todo el mundo. Los socios de Washington se han estado preparando para las consecuencias.
President Trump announced sweeping levies on countries across the world. The tariffs create a dilemma for longstanding friends — and an opportunity for foes.
The iPhone maker spent years trying to move production of some products out of China to avoid tariffs. But now that may not matter.
The e-commerce giant put in a last-minute offer for the popular video app, according to three people familiar with the talks. TikTok faces a Saturday deadline to change its ownership structure.
Zou Zhenhao was convicted in London of raping 10 women in Britain, where he was a student, and in China.
The president is set to announce details of his sweeping tariffs, as companies and global trading partners scramble to respond.
Workers said poor-quality materials were used during construction by a Chinese developer as it sought to cut costs. Investigators also said they found substandard steel bars in the rubble.
A longtime visitor returns to the post-pandemic city, finding it as varied and sophisticated as ever, and newly powered by digital commerce, with challenges for travelers.
Beijing’s message to America: We’re not afraid of you. You aren’t who you think you are — and we aren’t who you think we are.
The barges, which link up to form a bridge, could give China a way to land large numbers of vehicles and troops on Taiwan, solving a major logistical problem.
The state-owned automakers, longtime joint venture partners of Ford and Nissan, might combine operations as Beijing consolidates its sprawling car sector.
The president did not reveal the details of his plan to impose reciprocal tariffs the same day, but suggested he would move ahead with import taxes on trading partners.
A popular electric vehicle made by the Chinese consumer electronics giant Xiaomi crashed into a concrete guardrail while deploying its autonomous driving feature. Three people died.
Two dozen trade experts gathered recently to simulate how a global trade war would play out. The results were surprisingly optimistic.
President Trump’s policies are straining trade ties and challenging a long-held truth in China about the centrality of the U.S. market.
The drills came after Taiwan’s president, Lai Ching-te, announced measures to counter China’s influence and espionage. Beijing also wants to send a message to Washington, analysts said.
Wen Han is intent on listing Windrose’s stock in New York. He is fueled by $300 million, Chinese technology and a belief that “China doesn’t have to be the enemy forever.”
It could take months for agreement on a meeting between President Trump and Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, as Chinese officials seek a scripted encounter.
Markets around the world tumbled as investors braced for market turmoil. The S&P 500 is on track for its worst month since 2022.
The collapse of a 30-story building under construction was “not normal,” an engineering expert said. It was one of the biggest projects ever done by a Chinese state-owned company.
The private equity giant is considering investing as the video app works to follow a law that requires it to separate from its Chinese owner, ByteDance, by next week.
Se informó de la muerte de más de 140 personas en todo el sudeste asiático.
The death toll in Myanmar has exceeded 1,600, the country’s military government said. The powerful earthquake also jolted other parts of Southeast Asia.
At his first stop in the Philippines, the U.S. defense secretary promised to strengthen deterrence against Chinese “threats” in the region. He also plans to visit Japan.
German investment in China’s auto industry has been one of the few bright spots as foreign investment has slowed to a crawl.
Generations of Chinese, including our columnist, turned to U.S. government-run outlets for an education in democracy, rights and the English language.
Even as China offers itself to nations like Japan as a more reliable partner, its ships are pushing into their neighborhoods — sometimes on the very same day.
The social media app could shut down on April 5 unless it is sold to a new non-Chinese owner. Mr. Trump issued an order delaying the enforcement of a federal ban, and told reporters he could extend that delay, if necessary.
The additions included companies that are customers of Intel and Nvidia, and one firm that was the focus of a New York Times investigation last year.
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The release of the five employees, detained during a crackdown on foreign due diligence, comes as Beijing is trying to bring back overseas investment.
A new report illustrates a concerning dynamic: Record heat last year pushed countries to use more planet-warming fossil fuels to cool things down.
Lai Ching-te, the president of Taiwan, may be betting that China’s appetite for retaliation will be limited by Beijing’s interest in containing tensions with the Trump administration.
Senator Steve Daines said in an interview that in meetings with Chinese officials, he called for talks between President Trump and China’s leader, Xi Jinping.
The Department of Government Efficiency is shuttering organizations that Beijing worried about most, or actively sought to subvert.
The president also denied a report that such a briefing had been planned to be held at the Pentagon on Friday.
Dar a Musk acceso a algunos de los secretos militares más celosamente guardados de EE. UU. sería una ampliación dramática de su extenso papel en el gobierno.
The billionaire was set to be briefed on the military’s closely guarded playbooks on China, raising new questions about his power and access.
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Tax revenues have fallen, leaving the government with less money to help consumers or exporters as Beijing braces for President Trump’s tariffs.
Beijing’s threat to stop a tycoon’s sale of his ports business has dealmakers wondering if they can still operate without political interference.
The access would be a major expansion of Elon Musk’s government role and highlight his conflicts of interest.
La ministra de Asuntos Exteriores de Canadá dijo que ella y el ex primer ministro habían pedido clemencia a Pekín en los últimos meses para impedir las ejecuciones.
Nearly 60 days in, the president is failing to engage in long-term thinking.
Canada’s foreign minister said the government would continue to ask for leniency from China for other Canadians in similar situations.
An Quanzhong, who will spend 13 months behind bars, harassed a resident whom China’s government wanted back home. His conviction was one of several that prosecutors have won against operatives in New York.
Chinese experts say Beijing is open to talks but is being stonewalled by the State Department and other official channels.
El dirigente de Hong Kong se sumó a las críticas de China sobre el acuerdo entre CK Hutchinson y BlackRock, una empresa de EE. UU., sobre el canal de Panamá.
The Justice Department is pushing to drop corruption charges against Eric Adams in Manhattan while federal authorities in Brooklyn have been investigating his top fund-raisers.
The city’s chief executive said a deal between the Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison and BlackRock, a major American investment firm, requires “serious attention.”
Con el tiempo nos hemos enterado de que, para promover la apariencia de consenso, algunos funcionarios y científicos ocultaron o subestimaron hechos cruciales.
Beijing has long criticized the outlet, as well as Radio Free Asia, for highlighting human rights abuses in China.
Progress on battling fentanyl trafficking could be lost, and so could American lives.
Government bodies nationwide have been eager to show they are using DeepSeek’s A.I. technology since the company’s founder met with Xi Jinping, China’s leader.
El enfoque de Trump hacia los aranceles ha inquietado a muchos líderes corporativos que creían que solo los usaría como una herramienta de negociación. Resulta que él los ve como un fin en sí mismos.
The “free speech” champion Mark Zuckerberg tries to shut up a critic.
His artwork paid tribute to its surroundings, in New York City and elsewhere, rendering nature at an oversized scale that made it unmissable.
President Trump’s approach to tariffs has unsettled many corporate leaders who believed he would use the levies as a negotiating tool. As it turns out, he sees them as an end in themselves.
Beijing’s leaders are ordering fiscally strapped local governments to spend more to help workers, consumers and businesses.
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For years, the S&P 500 soared above the stock indexes of other countries. But since Trump’s inauguration, it has fallen 6 percent and is now trailing major markets in Europe and China.
The State Department said it was “combating China’s efforts to pressure governments to forcibly return Uyghurs and other groups to China.”
Las exportaciones chinas a los mercados en desarrollo se han disparado, abriendo rutas indirectas al mercado estadounidense que a los funcionarios de Pekín les preocupa puedan cerrarse.
CK Hutchison, un conglomerado de Hong Kong, planea vender los puertos en Panamá a un grupo dirigido por BlackRock, el gigante financiero estadounidense.
Beijing sought to position itself as a key player in negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program, as President Trump called for talks with Tehran.
The Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison’s planned sale of ports in Panama to a group led by BlackRock, the American finance giant, is under fire from Beijing.
Los conductores chinos que alguna vez acudieron en masa a Tesla ahora se decantan por marcas locales que ofrecen coches más eficientes, con mejor tecnología y, a veces, a la mitad del precio.
China’s exports to developing markets have soared, opening indirect routes to the U.S. market that officials in Beijing worry may be closed under pressure from President Trump.
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El presidente ofrece razones para imponer aranceles, como los ingresos, la influencia sobre los competidores y la creación de empleo. Pero el pasado sugiere una historia más compleja.
The president offers many reasons for imposing tariffs, including revenue, leverage over competitors and job creation. But history suggests a more complex history.
People who endured the longest Covid restrictions in the world are still grappling with what they lost: their loved ones, their livelihoods, their dignity.
Elon Musk, the company’s chief executive, is fast losing out to Chinese electric carmakers in Tesla’s second-most-important market.
Companies like East Goes Global serve as social media surrogates for players, expanding their reach, creating business opportunities and pushing for All-Star votes.
The unusual deployment by three navy ships over the past month has prompted a debate in Australia about its aging fleet and reliance on the United States.
“Careless People”, las memorias de una antigua ejecutiva de Facebook, es un retrato detallado y poco favorecedor de una de las empresas más poderosas del mundo.
The World Anti-Doping Agency will report to its board that federal officials questioned one of its U.S. employees last month in the inquiry into the agency’s handling of positive tests by Chinese athletes.
Xi Jinping wants China to surpass rivals as a tech superpower, undeterred by economic woes or trade wars. Critics ask if this focus neglects struggling citizens.
El presidente de EE. UU. aseguró que los beneficios se verían a largo plazo, y que los aranceles evitarían que el país fuera “estafado”.
La medida es en respuesta a los gravámenes que anunció el presidente Donald Trump y afecta a productos como el pollo, el trigo, la soya y la fruta.
The S&P skidded 2.7 percent, amid investor fears that tit-for-tat tariffs could raise prices, slow the economy and sow uncertainty among businesses.
“Careless People,” a memoir by a former Facebook executive, portrays feckless company leaders cozying up to authoritarian regimes.
The president still believes that his protectionist trade policies will be “great for us” in the long run, but won’t rule out short-term economic pain.
Al establecer fuertes impuestos sobre alimentos de origen canadiense, Pekín busca prevenir que Canadá y México cooperen con las medidas comerciales de EE. UU.
Europe, not Canada, Mexico or China, is most vulnerable to the fallout from Donald Trump’s mercantilist policies.
The action came in response to the higher levies on Chinese imports that President Trump announced last week.
President Trump said that Americans would be better off in the long run from his tariffs, which he said would prevent the country from being “ripped off.”
The judgment was issued in a case brought by the Missouri attorney general. The Chinese government did not respond to the claims in court.
Still recovering from heavy spending during the pandemic, hospitals are squeezed by a slumping economy and government efforts to curb health care spending.
President Trump’s decision to pull out of the international health agency could deprive the United States of crucial scientific data and lessen the country’s influence in setting a global health agenda.
A new analysis that began under the Biden administration is released by the C.I.A.’s new director, John Ratcliffe, who wants the agency to get “off the sidelines” in the debate.
Aunque los casos están aumentando en China, la situación es muy distinta a cuando surgió la COVID-19 hace cinco años, según los expertos médicos. El HMPV es común y tiene décadas de antigüedad.
While cases are climbing in China, the situation is very different from what it was when Covid-19 emerged five years ago, medical experts say. HMPV has circulated in humans for decades.
Trump ve los aranceles y la deportación como medios para fortalecer el país, y los votantes parecen estar de acuerdo. Pero corre el riesgo de socavar una de las mayores fortalezas económicas de EE. UU.
Trump’s immigration and tariff plans will strain American farming and raise the prices you see at the store.
China has been rolling out new visa-free programs and promising to make travel easier for foreigners. But challenges remain.
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Reviving a Mao-era surveillance campaign, the authorities are tracking residents, schoolchildren and businesses to forestall any potential unrest.
Yet Zhang Zhan’s supporters and human rights activists who had followed her case said they could not reach her or her family members.
The Chinese president this week will be visiting France, Serbia and Hungary. His trip comes at a time of tensions with many European countries over trade and accusations of Chinese espionage.
A heated hearing produced no new evidence that Peter Daszak or his nonprofit, EcoHealth Alliance, were implicated in the Covid outbreak.
Despite its thirst for Australian wine, China had taxed the imports in 2020 over a dispute about Covid-19.
The social media movement is the latest sign that some of China’s young people are resisting the compulsion to strive.
En la Asamblea Popular Nacional de esta semana, los dirigentes chinos fijaron un ambicioso objetivo de crecimiento: exactamente el mismo que el año pasado.
At China’s big political show, nervous exchanges with journalists and the tightly scripted pageantry showed how Xi Jinping has centralized control.
At the National People’s Congress on Tuesday, China’s leaders set an ambitious goal for growth, exactly the same one as last year.
Hundreds of flights and trains have been canceled as China’s most important holiday approaches, and more bad weather is in the forecast.
Over a year after China opened its borders following the pandemic, international trips are still lagging, although domestic travel is more popular.
Newly released documents indicate that a U.S. genetic database had received the sequence of the coronavirus two weeks before it was made public by others.
Pessimism among investors was most pronounced in Hong Kong, where stocks have plunged by 10 percent so far this year.
Gross domestic product expanded 5.2 percent, as China worked to export more to make up for weak demand, high debt and a steep property contraction at home.
A surge of children has been hospitalized in China for respiratory illnesses, but international health authorities said the cause was common viruses and bacteria.
More than 24,000 Chinese citizens have been apprehended crossing into the United States from Mexico in the past year. That is more than in the preceding 10 years combined.
The W.H.O. had requested detailed information about a reported surge in respiratory illnesses in children in China. Chinese data suggested the surge was caused by known bacteria and viruses.
Reports of overcrowding at pediatric hospitals in China have raised concerns about a jump in respiratory illnesses affecting children.