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Trump delays decision on auto tariffs for up to six months

3:24 pm May 18, 2019

Washington: President Donald Trump on Friday announced a six-month delay in imposing steep tariffs on auto imports, seeking to pressure Europe and Japan into bargaining table concessions on trade. The decision marked a temporary reprieve from what would have been a sizable escalation in Trump’s multi-front trade wars. Trump’s threat targets a major chunk of […]

Voices critical of CPEC being suppressed in Pakistan, US lawmakers told

9:37 pm May 14, 2019

Washington: People and the media in Pakistan are “scared” of speaking against the multi-billion-dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as those critical of it are being suppressed, treated as anti-national or branded as terrorists, a former official in the Obama administration has told US lawmakers. The USD 60 billion CPEC, which connects Gwadar Port in Pakistan’s […]

Trump to China: Trade deal now or it will be ‘far worse’ after 2020

10:51 am May 12, 2019

Washington: President Donald Trump warned China on Saturday that it should strike a trade deal with the United States now, otherwise an agreement would be “far worse for them if it has to be negotiated in my second term”. Washington and Beijing are locked in a trade battle that has seen mounting tariffs, sparking fears […]

Trump orders raising tariffs on essentially all remaining imports from China

2:17 pm May 11, 2019

Washington: United States President Donald Trump has ordered his top officials to begin the process to raise tariffs on almost all the imports from China, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said Friday. This amounts to about USD300 billion. This is in addition to the Chinese imports worth USD200 billion on which Trump increased the import […]

Pompeo says China's policies on Muslims amount to 'genocide'

Pompeo to visit Russia to discuss bilateral ties, arms control

1:59 pm May 11, 2019

Washington: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo would make his maiden trip to Russia next week to meet his counterpart Sergei Lavrov and Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss bilateral relationship between the two countries and a wide range of other issues including arms control, Iran, N Korea, Ukraine and Venezuela. Pompeo’s visit to Moscow […]