B y imposing heavy tariffs on its trading partners, America has not only provoked a market crash, raised uncertainty to ...

Although Mr Trump’s intentions in unleashing the biggest disruption to trade in modern history are not fully clear, he seems ...

Since he unveiled a sweeping set of tariffs on April 2nd, some 70 countries have contacted the White House, hoping to win ...

Ukrainian troops still hold slivers of territory inside Russia. In a diversionary attack in the last week of March, they ...

Mr Trump praised his Turkish counterpart as a friend. And he announced that America would start “direct” talks with Iran on ...

Half a century later, despite the invention of solid-state hard drives, magnetic tape remains surprisingly well-used in ...

Other leaders have no choice but to engage with the tariff onslaught that Mr Trump has unleashed on each of their economies, ...

In keeping with his zero-sum mindset, Mr Trump’s American golden age is not so good for the rest of the world. It restricts ...

Adjusted for its population, Australia has the biggest public-sector workforce in the ILO data, with 143 employees per 1,000 ...

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Fujian accounts for nearly one quarter of China’s shoe exports, bound primarily for North America and Europe. Mr Trump’s ...

Mr Trump seems unbothered. Yesterday he said he was “not looking at” a pause in tariffs and threatened China with an ...