Markets Rise As US and China Agree to Slash Tariffs
Share markets jumped on Monday after President Trump said weekend talks had resulted in a “total reset” in trade terms between the US and China, a move which goes some way to defuse the high stakes stand-off between the two countries. The talks in Switzerland resulted in significant cuts to the tit-for-tat tariffs that had […]
Overlooked Military Conflicts on the Sino-Indian Border Since 1962
Following the Chinese military’s withdrawal from the eastern and western sectors of the Sino-Indian border in 1963, China reimposed a policy of disengagement and limited contact. Direct military confrontation was largely confined to the China-Sikkim border, where India had stationed two to three mountain infantry brigades. Indian troops frequently provoked Chinese forces in this region—particularly […]
Will The End of ‘De Minimis’ Stop Un-inspected Flow of Chinese Goods Into U.S. Markets
In a major shift in U.S. trade policy, the long-standing de minimis exemption for low-value shipments from China and Hong Kong officially ended on May 2, 2025. The move, enacted under former President Donald Trump’s renewed tariffs on Chinese goods, marks a significant tightening of import rules that will reshape online shopping for millions of […]
Do You Know, Nixon Visited China in 1972 (Video)
On February 21, 1972, President Richard Nixon arrived in China for an historic visit to the Communist nation. President Nixon’s trip to China in 1972 ended twenty-five years of isolation between the United States and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and resulted in establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries in 1979. When the Chinese […]
Seychelles: Small Nation where Big Powers Compete
Victoria, Seychelles —It has been 18 months since the United States reopened its embassy in Victoria, Seychelles, 27 years after Washington left the island nation. Seychelles is an archipelago of 115 islands strategically located in the Indian Ocean at the confluence of Africa, South Asia and the Gulf states. The small African country is not […]
Transcript: Former Exec Sarah Wynn-Williams Testifies on Facebook’s Courtship of China
Former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams told a US Senate subcommittee on Wednesday that the tech giant undermined its self-proclaimed free speech values and put the country’s national security at risk by vigorously pursuing business opportunities in China. Wynn-Williams last month released an explosive tell-all memoir that alleged she witnessed first-hand how the company’s leadership curried […]
Trump Threatens China With Additional 50 Percent Tariff
President Donald Trump threatened China Monday with a 50% additional tariff after the Beijing communist government imposed a 34% retaliatory tariff on U.S. imports. He made the threat in a Truth Social post: “Yesterday, China issued Retaliatory Tariffs of 34%, on top of their already record setting Tariffs, Non-Monetary Tariffs, Illegal Subsidization of companies, and […]
Trump’s Blanket of Tariffs Aims at All Goods En-route from China
Despite of delays, negotiations, and world diplomacy, the new King of Tariffs triggered his economic war, targeting almost every production-worthy country, including some remote and frozen islands. On April 2, 2025, each country received its share of tariff should it export something to the U.S., at least 10 percent for everybody, including the U.S. enduring ally, the […]
China vs U.S, What Do Americans Know
Here are unmasked conversations at a book fair in March 14, 2025. Listen their understanding on China, since 1950s…
The Artemis Accords and the Collapse of the Chinese Communist Party
With five new signatories onto the Artemis Accords, (53 total countries joined as of 1/27/25) the agreements as the Accords state: [is to] necessitate greater coordination and cooperation between and among established and emerging actors in space. The CCP is currently dumping trillions of dollars per year into its own space program, not to venture […]