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After talking tough during campaign, Trump appears to ease up on China at start of presidency

Jan. 29, 2025 00:16 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — On the campaign trail last year, President Donald Trump talked tough about imposing tariffs as high as 60% on Chinese goods and threatened to renew the trade war with China that he launched during his first term. But now that he's back in the White House, Trump...

Chinese and Indian diplomats call for warmer relations but make no public mention of border dispute

Jan. 27, 2025 09:53 AM EST

BEIJING (AP) — The top diplomats of China and India called for their nations to provide further mutual support, but avoided publicly mentioning a long-standing border dispute in the Himalayas when they met Monday in Beijing. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told top Indian foreign...

China tells Rubio to behave himself in veiled warning

Jan. 25, 2025 03:32 AM EST

BEIJING (AP) — China's veteran foreign minister has issued a veiled warning to America's new secretary of state: Behave yourself. Foreign Minister Wang Yi conveyed the message in a phone call Friday, their first conversation since Marco Rubio's confirmation as President Donald...

The Latest: Hegseth confirmed as defense secretary in victory for Trump

Jan. 24, 2025 23:00 PM EST

President Donald Trump is in the fifth day of his second term in office, striving to remake the traditional boundaries of Washington by asserting unprecedented executive power. The president also took his first trip of his second administration on Friday, touring areas where politics...