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EU officials have lashed out at plans aimed at pushing domestic manufacturing in the United States over accusations that it harms the bloc’s interests.

A delegation of German MPs has sworn that they “stand by Taiwan” despite the fact that their left-wing Chancellor is allowing the sale of major infrastructure to Communist China.

Germany’s dependence on China — now its largest trading partner — makes it incredibly vulnerable to a future east-west trade war.

(AFP) – Millions of boxes of oranges are spoiling in containers stranded at European ports as South Africa and the European Union lock horns in a dispute over import rules, citrus growers have said.

The European Union is reportedly threatening to target areas represented by government ministers and Brexiteers to pressure them not to scrap the Northern Ireland Protocol which gives it continuing power over the British province. 

The British government has indicated that it may finally scrap the Northern Ireland which leaves the European Union in control of much trade and regulatory policy in the province, with or without the EU’s agreement.

Taiwan plans to invest $200 million in Lithuania, following increased hostilities between Lithuania and China.

LONDON (AP) – The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator says the bloc is ready to act “firmly and resolutely” if the U.K. fails to honor its commitments under the divorce deal that was supposed to keep trade flowing after Britain

China on Thursday announced the suspension of economic dialogue with Australia amid deteriorating relations over human rights issues, Chinese espionage and political interference, and Australia’s withdrawal from two projects tied to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

Chinese state media was very enthusiastic about the confrontation between U.S. and Chinese diplomatic representatives in Alaska this weekend, churning out a blizzard of editorials that congratulated Politburo member Yang Jiechi and other members of the Chinese team for humiliating U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

The British government is reportedly preparing to launch a series of tit-for-tat trade restrictions with the European Union dubbed the “Water Wars” in response to the bloc’s ban of shellfish from the UK. The government is said to be considering

The South China Morning Post (SCMP) on Wednesday reviewed Chinese customs data and found several major blockages of Australian imports over the past month, including 9,000 liters of Australian craft beer turned away at the port city of Xiamen and 8,000 kilograms of frozen beef denied entry to Shanghai. China and Australia are embroiled in a long-running trade and diplomatic feud.

The French have banned all accompanied traffic from the United Kingdom after the British government confirmed a new, more contagious strain of the Chinese coronavirus in London and the south-east.

Chinese state media worked hard Tuesday to convey the sense that Beijing has low expectations for Joe Biden’s presidency, penning editorials that asserted the American system is collapsing, the coronavirus proved representative democracy does not work, and Biden will not be able to undo President Donald Trump’s policy changes toward China.

Walmart announced on Monday that it will triple the value of goods imported from India to the United States by 2027, a pivot away from Chinese suppliers that will add up to $10 billion per year.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the board of the U.S.-China Business Council on Monday that his country looks forward to a “reset” in relations with the United States under a Joe Biden administration.

(AFP) — Biting new Chinese trade tariffs have stoked fears that Australia’s virus-weakened economy is being targeted for political retribution and the two countries may be sliding into a shadow trade war.

China’s state-run Global Times on Sunday celebrated the return of “old friend” Joe Biden to power, reminiscing fondly about Biden’s “noodle diplomacy,” named after his visit to a modest Beijing eatery when he was vice president in 2011.

President Donald Trump talked about China a great deal during his 2016 campaign. His first term featured some very high-profile economic, security, and diplomatic conflicts with Communist China, culminating in the biggest event of 2020, the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. How well does his first-term scorecard on China line up with his 2016 campaign promises?

Ambassador John Bolton, who served President Donald Trump as National Security Advisor for 17 months from April 2018 to September 2019, claims in a Wall Street Journal op-ed Wednesday that Trump wants to be re-elected in 2020.

On May 20, speaking from the Senate floor, Josh Hawley, the youngest member of the chamber, laid out his plan for fixing international trade, taking on the People’s Republic of China—and thereby, too, perhaps saving America. 

After weeks of howling that calls for an international investigation of the Wuhan coronavirus were nothing but political dirty tricks intended to scapegoat China for the failure of other governments to manage the pandemic effectively, and effectively declaring economic war on Australia for daring to demand such an investigation, the Chinese delegation to the World Health Assembly (WHA) suddenly decided on Tuesday to co-sponsor a resolution calling for an independent review.

Chinese state media is still cranking out editorials denouncing U.S. lawsuits intended to hold Beijing accountable for the death and damage inflicted by the Wuhan coronavirus, suggesting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is more than a little worried about backlash from the pandemic, even if the legal principle of sovereign immunity protects it from these particular lawsuits.

China’s state-run Global Times on Tuesday denounced calls for the United States and Europe to decouple from Communist China after the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic as “delusional” and insisted refusing to do business with Beijing could “cost lives.”

The coronavirus outbreak has exposed the United States’ dangerous dependence on China for pharmaceutical and medical supplies, including an estimated 97 percent of all antibiotics and 80 percent of the active pharmaceutical ingredients needed to produce drugs in the United States.

DES MOINES, Iowa — Billionaire left-wing donor-turned-candidate Tom Steyer told Breitbart News in the spin room after Tuesday evening’s Democrat debate that he would not use tariffs on China to force it to adopt climate change policies.

The U.S. economy is far more resilient and less reliant on China than Trump critics believed.

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping delivered a New Year’s Day address on Tuesday in which he celebrated “significant breakthroughs” in technological development, economic growth, military power, and improved quality of life for China’s poor.

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping held a meeting of the Communist Party’s political bureau in which 2019 was discussed as an especially “challenging” or “testing” year for communism, particularly due to China’s sputtering economy.

A Bloomberg News report on Sunday described how Communist China uses its “social credit system” to control not just citizens but corporations – and not just domestic companies, but foreign companies seeking to do business in China as well.

President Trump’s stand against China’s trade practices includes ending the Communist regime’s dominance of the rare earth market.

“We shouldn’t have to pay farmers to take the edge off a trade war that should not have started in the first place,” Pete Buttigieg said.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a personal ally of U.S. President Donald Trump who is also eager to cultivate trade with China, said on Thursday his country will stay out of the U.S.-China trade war.

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), a candidate in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, spoke with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily about U.S. policy toward China, which she felt is needlessly and dangerously antagonizing a nuclear-armed adversary.

U.S. imports from China have declined by $53 billion through the first nine months of the year, Commerce Dept. data show.|

China’s devastating outbreak of African swine fever, nicknamed “Pig Ebola” by outside observers, has compelled the destruction of millions of pigs and created a shortage of pork severe enough to put dog and rabbit meat back on the menu in rural areas.