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Law and crime Japanese National Diet member Tsukasa Akimoto of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party is arrested for allegedly receiving up to ¥ 3 million in bribes from a Chinese company interested in setting up a casino in the country. (Reuters) Politics and elections 2019 Iraqi protests The largest parliamentary bloc, Binaa Bloc, including Fatah Alliance and State of Law Coalition, nominates ...
A 2019 statement by the National Association of Manufacturers stated their opposition to the trade war, calling for a new structure for the U.S.–China commercial relationship that would eliminate China's unfair trade practices and level the playing field for manufacturers in the United States. [390]
During the 1990s, U.S. trade deficit became a more excessive long-run trade deficit, mostly with Asia. By 2012, the U.S. trade deficit, fiscal budget deficit, and federal debt increased to record or near record levels following accompanying decades of the implementation of broad unconditional or unilateral U.S. free trade policies and formal ...
Health and environment 2019 Samoa measles outbreak Three children in one family are among those killed by the outbreak. (The Guardian) World AIDS Day The observance is marked by UNAIDS and worldwide, as the AIDS Quilt returns to San Francisco. (The Independent) (The New York Times) (Wikispore) Politics and elections 2019 Iraqi protests The Council of Representatives accepts Prime Minister Adil ...
Asia-United States relations are covered in these articles: Foreign relations of the United States; East Asia–United States relations; Hong Kong–United States ...
The authority of Congress to regulate international trade is set out in the United States Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Paragraph 1): . The Congress shall have power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and to promote the general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform ...
May 10 – At 12:00 a.m. EST, President Trump's proposed 25 percent tariff hike on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports takes effect, escalating tensions between the two nations amid the ongoing China–United States trade war. The deadline hits as negotiations between trade representatives continued.
The United States' NATO representative at the event referred to China as a "competitor". [30] According to a report by Reuters, in 2019 the United States CIA began a clandestine campaign on Chinese social media to spread negative narratives about the Xi Jinping administration in an effort to influence Chinese public opinion against the ...