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Trump and China's Xi discuss TikTok, trade, fentanyl, president-elect says
President-elect Donald Trump said he spoke on the phone with Chinese President Xi Jinping about TikTok, fentanyl, trade and more.
Trump says he discussed trade, fentanyl, tiktok with China's Xi
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Friday said he discussed trade, fentanyl and Tiktok with Chinese President Xi Jinping, saying their phone call "was a very good one for both China and the U.S.A."
Trump's China Trade Surplus Challenge
On the eve of Donald Trump’s White House return, the Chinese government announced that last year it recorded a trade surplus of almost $1 trillion, a third of which was with the US.
Live Q&A: How Trump’s Trade War Rhetoric on China Affects Everyone
Bloomberg reporters answer questions about how Trump’s promises to raise tariffs on China could lead to a trade war with global consequences.
Trump upended trade once, aims to do so again with new tariffs
Donald Trump came to Washington eight years ago vowing to rewrite U.S. trade relationships, shrink a massive goods trade deficit and rebuild America's industrial base with new tariffs. The president-elect is about to embark on an even more aggressive effort in his second term,
China tech shrugged off Trump’s ‘trade war’ − there’s no reason it won’t do the same with new tariffs
When Donald Trump returns to the White House, he’ll be accompanied by a coterie of China hawks, all vowing to use tariffs and export bans to stop Beijing from challenging the United States’ supremacy in technology.
US-China Trade Fight Starts Early, Paving Way for Trump Tariffs
Even before Donald Trump takes office on Monday, trade tensions between the world’s biggest economies are already heating up.
US-China trade tensions heat up ahead of president Trump’s tariffs
Trade between the world’s two largest economies is on the brink of chaos again. The outgoing Biden administration has turned up the heat in its final days, handing Trump a loaded gun in the form of sweeping restrictions directed at Beijing.

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China kicks off subsidised auto trade-ins
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China’s Africa imports rise, but will 2025 headwinds halt the continent’s trade gains?
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Trump, China's Xi speak on phone ahead of inauguration
President-elect Trump said he had a phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday that was "a very good one" for both countries, pledging cooperation on trade and fentanyl.
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Buttressed by a massive spike in exports, all-time highs in car and computer chip shipments and its largest-ever share of ...
With tariffs and trade in the spotlight, what Trump means when he says America is ‘losing’ billions to Canada, others
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