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The authors discuss the U.S. government's decision to impose tariffs on coated-paper imports from China. They argue that the tariffs benefit U.S. private equity investors. The paper manufacturers that brought the complaint is owned by a large U.S. private equity group. They say the government action raises obvious questions about the political influence of private investment firms.

In this article, the author discusses that China does not impose any threat of financial retaliation on the U.S. As stated, China cannot use its alleged economic weapons of mass destruction and has to continue buying low-yielding U.S. bonds. Besides this the American economy is the only place that can absorb the large amount of surpluses generated by China. Another reason is that China's foreign exchange reserves which are over 2 trillion dollar are result of its trade surpluses with U.S.

(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. government secretly expelled two Chinese embassy officials in September after they trespassed onto a military base in Virginia, the New York Times reported. The incident was the first expulsion of Chinese embassy officials from the U.S. since two were removed in 1987, according to the paper. [Extracted from the article]

Argues that the United States, long a leader in innovation, may be in danger of losing that edge to competition from abroad. Details on research and development spending in the U.S. and where it is concentrated; Biomedical research which has drained funding for the physical sciences; China which is catching up to the number of papers and patents produced by the U.S.; How American researchers are tapping into overseas talent in the development of ideas; Homeland security which is making it harder for foreign students and researchers to work in America.

The author discusses a white paper published by China's State Council Information Office on June 2, 2019 clarifying the nation's position on trade negotiations with the United States. It states after the implementation of tariffs by U.S. President Donald Trump and his use of an executive order prohibiting U.S. companies from using telecommunications equipment by Chinese companies considered a national security threat, China increased tariffs and discussed ending rare earth exports to the U.S.

The article reports on the 22,000,000 pounds war freight recorded by the Office of War Information in the first half of 1944, which is worth about 79 million U.S. dollars excluding outbound traffic. The Himalayas from China to India route and the Karachi, India to the U.S. via Africa route and the South America route are some of the most popular destinations of the war freight. The main lone that runs to Trinidad and Puerto Rico from New York via Bermuda also makes it as one of the popular destinations as it close to Miami, Florida.

The article focuses on the outlook for U.S. foreign policy. U.S. position for a Pacific Union is explained in relation to priority given to Europe. Decisions subsequent to the release of the China White Paper are presented together with suggestions from Great Britain for order in Southeast Asia. Plans of the International Monetary Fund to restore drawing rights to Marshall Plan countries are examined as well as the signs of solid prosperity in France. The effect of the Commonwealth agreement on trade between India and Great Britain are also evaluated.

The article focuses on anti-free-trade rhetoric from U.S. Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders and the impact free trade has had on the U.S. labor force. It states a paper from David Autor, David Dorn and Gordon Hanson found Chinese imports resulted in around 2.4 million U.S. jobs being lost from 1999 to 2011, with slow job growth preventing them from finding jobs in other sectors. It suggests that next U.S. President will not be able to demand new terms from trading partners.

The author comments on the low bank deposit rates in the U.S. as savers are pulling money out of their bank accounts following the U.S. Federal Reserve's initiative to raise interest rates in March 2022 after keeping them near zero for more than a decade. Topics include an increase in assets of money-market funds as deposits decreased, the impact of China's low deposit rate since 2015 on wealth management products, and an increase in Chinese bond yields after easing its Covid Zero policy.

The author argues on the wrong approach of the U.S. to building electric vehicle (EV) batteries as revealed in the collapse of U.S.-based lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries maker A123 Systems in 2012. Topics include the discovery of LFP by scientists at the University of Texas in the 1990s that is now used by battery companies in China, the bankruptcy of A123 due to lack of demand for EVs and the struggle of the U.S. to build its own battery supply chain 30 years after the discovery of LFP.

The article outlines some of the Economic Cooperation Act (ECA) authorized expenditures for Marshall Plan countries. For the week ended September 11, 1948, total authorization totaled 134,057,353 for new commodities mostly heavy equipment. Authorization for spare parts for motor vehicles and other items amounted to 2.6 million U.S. dollars for Netherlands , 8.6 million dollars for China and 2 million dollars for France.

The article analyzes the possible impact of the Japanese government's enactment of a law that empowers the government to take over business during an emergency such as war. The law is of interest to the U.S. because of the substantial flow of U.S. goods to Japan and the similarity of the law to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's emergency-power proposal. The law also affects Japan's trade relations with China.

The article discusses businessman John Bird's efforts to expose Chinese medical-products manufacturer China Sky One Medical as a fraud. While reviewing the firm's financial statements Bird found figures that seemed implausible. China Sky One is one of several hundred Chinese firms that have achieved listing on U.S. stock exchanges by means of reverse mergers. INSETS: Corning to America: The Reverse Merger;Clear and Cloudy.

The article reports on the efforts of the U.S. government to prevent Red China from earning badly needed dollars by the government's crack down on contraband trade that reach the U.S. through Macao, Hong Kong, Japan, and Korea.

The article discusses economic issues being settled by the League of Nations regarding the conflict between China and Japan on the control of Mukden, the capital of the Chinese region of Manchuria. Information on Japanese investments in Manchuria is presented, noting that the Japanese nationals who operate businesses in the region are continuously demanding for protection of their business. The interest of other countries like the U.S. and Soviet Union in the economic opportunities in Manchuria is also described.

This article points out that U.S. businesses operating in China will be at a competitive disadvantage with Japanese businesses. Japanese military occupation of Chinese cities, such as Shanghai, has enabled Japanese businesses to dominate the competition from foreign businesses such as the U.S.'s. U.S. businesses that are expected or have already posted losses are the Universal Leaf Tobacco Co., National City Bank of New York and American Express Co.

The article discusses China's views on the classification of a country as developing nation which shouldn't be defined by the interests of the U.S.. Topics discussed the U.S. President Donald Trump ordered his top trade negotiator to pressure the World Trade Organization; substantial progress toward limiting the number of countries considered developing nations; and improvement of WTO.

This article discusses a growth in China's trade market and its effects on the global economy. Since entering the World Trade Organization in 2001 China has made strides in liberalizing its economy and has signed significant trading deals with the U.S, reducing the U.S.'s trade deficit. However, some American executives are concerned about China's refusal to revalue its currency, its weak enforcement of rampant piracy, and its continued use of weak credit to boost favored industries. INSET: Little Leverage.

Focuses on Chinese President Hu Jintao's trip to Washington D.C. where he will meet with U.S. President George W. Bush. View of many in the West that China, an economically ascendant nation, is destined for superpower status; Details of Hu's scripted trip to Washington, including a speech at Yale University, a visit to the United Nations and Microsoft Corp.'s headquarters; Hu's efforts to balance high-speed economic growth with social stability in China.

Discusses why U.S. manufacturers should worry about competition from China. Impact of Chinese imports on American manufacturing; Concerns of manufacturers and workers over China's low wages and high technology; Signs of a possible massive shift in economic power; Dispute over the economic relationship between the U.S. and China; Issue of outsourcing; Question of America's huge trade deficit; Observation that U.S. companies are no longer investing in new capacity at home; China's enormous domestic market and expansion of their export base; China's competitive advantages; How key elements of the U.S. industrial base are eroding; Areas where the Chinese have huge ambitions, including digital technologies. INSETS: THE CHINA CHALLENGE;THE CHINA PRICE.

The article presents information on the trade relationship between China and the United States. A very constructive meeting in Washington with new U.S. Trade Representative Robert B. Zoellick had been concluded by Long Yongtu, chief trade negotiator of China. Both the countries had narrowed their differences over the agricultural and insurance issues. INSETS: TURNING UP THE HEAT: Bush and China;WHAT WTO ENTRY WILL DO;WHAT IT WON'T.

The article focuses on the implications of the Internet in changing the rules of power politics in countries worldwide. Special interest groups in the U.S. mobilize mass letter-writing campaigns to policymakers quickly and cheaply. Groups in China have surprised police by organizing rallies through the Web. Opposition media in Serbia/Kosovo stayed in operation after government seized their facilities using the Web to spread news of atrocities against Albanians.

The article reports on a decline in the trade surplus of China in March 2007. Standard Chartered senior economist Stephen Green denies that this fallout was caused by U.S. import duties of glossy paper manufactured in China and the complaints of U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab on the country's inaction in protecting intellectual property. He believes that this was only a function of a pre-tax surge in winter exports and notes that China's 1st-quarter surplus still came in at $46.5 billion.

The article discusses the role of an aluminum tariff in a U.S. trade war with China begun by U.S. President Donald Trump. Topics include the impact of the tariff on the U.S. aluminum industry and the firm Century Aluminum, the impact of aluminum stockpiles on the industry, and the alleged violation of World Trade Organization (WTO) rules in China's industrial policy.

The article presents two excerpts including one from a letter by a U.S. Marine on China and another from a report by Staff Seargent Bill Ross, a correspondent from Marine Corps on China are presented.

The article focuses on the invasion by Red China of the Quemoy and Matsu islands in Taiwan. Chinese Premier Chou En-lai said that his government is willing to resume diplomatic talks with the U.S. which has been broken because of Washington's decision to use its Seventh Fleet to block the Red invasion. If the U.S. gave in to Red China, the U.S.-backed Nationalists would weaken their position off the China mainland. Under the two Chinas policy, the U.S. has accepted the Communists control of the mainland but refused to accept the Peking government.

The article discusses the plan of many U.S. businesspeople to continue operating in China in spite of indications that the Communists will defeat the nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek in 1948. Highlights of war activities in China in November 1948 are described, including Communists' acquisition of control of Manchuria and their movement south to surround Soochow. Analysts speculate on U.S. policy toward China once a Communist government is established there, such as an investigation of the chances of doing business with Communists.

The article reports on how the task of watching China can affect the decisions of the U.S. government in April 1966. According to China specialists, the U.S. policy toward China was too rigid and recommends that the U.S. must not isolate China even while containing it. The author adds that 198 scholars in Asia and China signed a letter criticizing U.S. policy. The difficulties involved in watching China, its progress in providing its own arms and its nuclear weapons capability are also discussed.

The article looks at an attempt by China and the Soviet Union to turn Indonesia a Communist arsenal that poses a threat to U.S. foreign policy and other Southeast Asian countries. Indonesia is being led by neutralist President Sukarno, who has resisted Soviet pressure to include Communists in his inner cabinet. However, Sukarno has accepted Soviet military equipment, including jet fighters and bombers. The question of U.S. aid eventually became a challenging one.

This section offers news briefs on business and politics in countries other than the U.S. as of March 1938. The Japanese government announced that China is establishing an autonomous state in Central China with Nanking as capital. The signing of a new trade pact between Great Britain and Italy signals the possibility of a more significant agreement between the two countries. Great Britain bought Soviet goods worth 113 million U.S. dollars and sold goods worth 40 million U.S. dollars to Russia in 1937.

The article offers business news briefs for April 12, 2010. The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama approves off-shore drilling for fossil fuels in the Atlantic and Gulf coast regions. Four of Rio Tinto Group mining company's employees are given prison terms in China for commercial crimes. An investment program is introduced in Brazil by the country's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. INSET: IDEAS.

The article focuses on the issue of Chinese doctors offering stem-cell treatments without clinical trials. Western medical practitioners argue that without the clinical trials and controlled experiments, Chinese doctors aren't helping to find the benefits of stem-cell therapy. The focus of the article centers around U.S. citizen Chuck Melton who travelled to China for the therapy.

The article reports on the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei Technologies. It mentions the company's work on 5G telecommunications, the expansion of the company's technology, and the national security concerns the U.S has regarding the possibility of Chinese espionage using Huawei technology.

Presents the author's views on what lies ahead for the United States economy and the economies of Indian and China continue to grow. Review of how three million U.S. manufacturing jobs have been lost in the past half-decade; Suggestion that six million more will be gone in the coming ten years; Growth of the U.S. merchandise trade deficit with China; Benefit of inexpensive goods and services for American consumers; Discussion of how American companies are changing their business processes so they can take advantage of cheaper foreign labor.

The article discusses the effects of antibiotics overuse on seafood harvested in China. Topics include the use of antibiotics in animal feed, the development of antibiotics resistance bacteria in relation to seafood imported to the U.S. from Southeast Asia, and the use of antibiotics in Chinese aquaculture. Also addressed are the role of the firm American Fisheries in purported illegal import practices, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversight of seafood imports, and the use of shipment through Malaysia by Chinese firms exporting shrimp.

The article focuses on the political battle in the United States to extend the most-favored-nation (MFN) trade status for another year to China. The demand to review the most drawn-out and heated battle over China policy in Washington since Tiananmen Square enraged the U.S. Congress in 1989. The debate is complicated by the suspected Chinese link to Donorgate, the July 1, 1997 transfer of Hong Kong to Chinese rule, a steadily worsening trade deficit, and recent confirmation of Beijing's sales of missile and chemical-weapons technology to Iran. Also, an anti-MFN coalition of Christian conservatives, the AFL-CIO, and human rights activists has won dozens of converts on the Hill.

The article focuses on the international trade between the Communist countries and non-communist countries, and the U.S. diplomacy towards this trade. It states that the increasing trade volume between Communist and non-communist countries is a major diplomatic and political concern for the U.S. However, the U.S. is facing both criticism and pressure to increase trade with Communist regions, including China and Soviet Union.

The article discusses the concerns of the U.S. in relation to free world trade with Red China as of May 1953. U.S. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy charged the British with the transportation of Communist troops along the China coast, increase in Western exports to Communist China, and 162 free-world ships engaged in trade with China. The British contend that trade has been on nonstrategic items and that a trade embargo would endanger Hong Kong. Many Americans insist that any trade strengthens their economy.

The article focuses on the incident which involves the arrest of a Nipponese bodyguard by American Marines in Shanghai, China. It states that the bodyguard of a Japanese general who visited the patrolled area of Shanghai was arrested due to their failure to conform in their agreement with the U.S. to seek permission in advance before entering policed zones. As a result, it says that the U.S. issued a notice to the Japanese government which temporarily terminates the Japanese-American trade deal.

The article discusses how events in Asia as of November 1965 may provide favorable openings for U.S. policy against Communist China in the region. The Indonesian army is seen as pushing a showdown with the Communist Party in the wake of a left-wing coup attempt. China backed down on a threat to attack India's border. Observations are made regarding the rift between Russia and China, with the Russians said to be moving to offset Chinese influence in Asia and among uncommitted countries in Africa.

This section offers global business news briefs. The Soviet Union will purchase rail equipment with the near completion of the transsiberian rail line in the Japanese-controlled Manchukuo in the Far East. China will create a Central Trust Purchasing Department at the Central Trust of China to consolidate all national, provincial and municipal government purchases under one department. Colombia ratified a new trade agreement with the U.S. and signed a new trade treaty with Guatemala.

The article reports on the decision of the administration of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to end the negotiations with the Soviet Union for a new debt settlement and trade agreement in 1935. The factors which influenced the U.S. decision on the issue include the assurance made by Japanese officials that Japan has no bad intentions for the U.S. and the positive outlook for the Chinese Eastern Railway problem. A loan of 100 million U.S. dollars was also asked by the Russians.

China may be able to send astronauts to the moon for the first time by 2030, Ye Peijian, chief designer of China's first lunar probe, told state media at the time. (Bloomberg) -- "There's going to be a new world order out there, and we've got to lead it", US President Joe Biden said after Russia's war in Ukraine upended global geopolitics. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the export of U.S. scrap metal to China as of September 2013, with a focus on efforts by Johnson Zeng, president of Sunrise Metal Recycling in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Homer Lai, scrap importer in China's Guang-dong Province. Zeng and Homer deal in scrap-metals, including insulated copper wire (ICW), grease wire, and jelly wire with steel. Topics include competition within the junk trade industry, Zeng's background as a trader, and material waste in the U.S.

The article presents the author's comments on the impact of China's patents process on the U.S. companies. The author discusses the growing risks of the Chinese patent process and states that the U.S. firms could be forced to pay license fees or leave a market which is free to exploit their technologies. According to him, China has been one of the worst offenders, stealing and replicating technologies from the U.S., on a grand scale.

The article focuses on Chinese corporate espionage in U.S. companies prior to 2012. Topics include the number of Chinese executive convicted of corporate espionage, theft, and dissemination of trade secrets, the U.S. Economic and Espionage Act, and U.S. espionage prevention tactics. Information is provided on the effect that corporate espionage has on U.S. corporations due to costly and lengthy litigation against perpetrators and investor fears. It is noted that the U.S. biotechnology, telecommunications, and nanotechnology sectors have been targeted by Chinese agents.

This article deals with the toy safety issue facing the U.S. toy industry. On September 12, 2007, Mattel CEO Robert Eckert testified at a Senate subcommittee hearing on toy safety. The hearing came as the toy industry stepped up its independent testing. A number of senators voiced support for more radical steps. Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas called for tougher action against China, given the sharp increase in imported products from that country with safety issues.