Mar 23 S&P records worst week in 2 years, as global stocks tumble due to trade fears By Marley Jay, Associated Press Stocks around the world plunged Friday as investors feared that a trade conflict between the U.S. and China, the biggest economies in the world, would escalate. Continue reading
Mar 22 Watch 5:42 Trump is getting tough on China trade, but will his strategy work? By PBS News Hour The U.S. has a $375 billion trade gap with China. Will President Trump’s tariffs targeted at China have their desired effect? William Brangham talks with Ian Bremmer, president and founder of the Eurasia Group, about the way U.S. should approach… Continue watching
Mar 22 Watch 9:33 Seeing China’s economic evolution in one family’s story By Paul Solman When journalist Scott Tong began reporting on China's explosive economy, he was advised to look past the new skyscrapers of Shanghai and take the long view. In “A Village With My Name,” he explores his own family's history, finding stories… Continue watching
Mar 22 Trump signs order punishing China on trade By Paul Wiseman, Ken Thomas, Associated Press President Donald Trump signed an order Thursday that paves the way for imposing tariffs on as much as $60 billion worth of Chinese imports. Continue reading
Mar 11 Watch 22:22 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode March 11, 2018 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Sunday, March 11, President Trump makes big foreign policy decisions ahead of Pennsylvania polls, and a tour of the Armory Show, one of the world’s biggest art fairs. Also, what one couple learned from their shift… Continue watching
Mar 11 China makes historic move to allow Xi to rule indefinitely By Christopher Bodeen, Associated Press BEIJING — China's rubber-stamp lawmakers on Sunday passed a historic constitutional amendment abolishing a presidential two-term limit that will enable Xi Jinping to rule indefinitely. Continue reading
Mar 08 Watch 9:29 Meet the Trump trade adviser whose tariff policy is about to be tested By PBS News Hour Peter Navarro is one of the key White House figures who has made a case for imposing stiff new tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. What ideas and philosophy drive Navarro? Economics correspondent Paul Solman revisits his profile of Trump's… Continue watching
Mar 07 China’s growing activity in Africa raises some policy questions By Eleanor Albert, Council on Foreign Relations China has become Africa’s largest trade partner and has greatly expanded its economic ties to the continent, but its growing activities there have raised questions about its noninterference policy. Continue reading
Mar 04 Watch 22:20 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode March 4, 2018 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Sunday, March 4, despite criticism, the Trump administration plans to go ahead with proposed tariffs on steel and aluminum, and a documentary on the life and work on award-winning conflict photographer Chris Hondros. Also, a look… Continue watching
Feb 26 Watch 4:54 China might make Xi Jinping president for life. What does that mean for the U.S.? By PBS News Hour Chinese President Xi Jinping may never have to leave office under a proposal to amend the country’s constitution in order to abolish the two-term limit on the office of the president. Christopher Johnson of the Center for Strategic and International… Continue watching