International trade

Chinese spies could be able to access “sensitive” information in Belgium through investments made into the Liège Airport by the Jack Ma-owned e-commerce giant Alibaba, the country’s justice minister admitted this week.

China overtook the U.S. as the European Union’s top trading partner in 2020, as ties between Brussels and Beijing continue to deepen.

Madison Cawthorn, the Republican nominee for North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District, told Breitbart News on Wednesday that he promised President Donald Trump to win millennial voters’ support for the president’s reelection bid.

Drugs can be manufactured in America more quickly, efficiently, and with better quality control than in China, said Rosemary Gibson, senior adviser at the Hastings Center and author of China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine.

China could shut down the U.S. healthcare system within months with its “global chokehold” on medical manufacturing, said Rosemary Gibson.

President Donald Trump hosted a signing of the phase one trade deal with China on Wednesday, marking a significant milestone in pressuring China for fairer trade relations with the United States. “Today we take a momentous step,” Trump said, claiming

China would not abide by the terms of any trade deal with the U.S. regardless of what is in the final Chinese language translation of the agreement, warned economist Alan Tonelson.

President Donald Trump asked Pentagon officials why America bears the burden of militarily defending Europe, said White House biographer Doug Wead, author of Inside Trump’s White House: The Real Story of His Presidency, in a Wednesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.

“The reason [Donald Trump] is able to take on China directly now is because our economy is so good based on all of the policies that he has enacted,” said Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley in a Wednesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

Applying tariffs to China’s exports is “key to bringing China to heel” and achieving U.S. victory in a trade war, determined Steven Mosher.

Trump’s tariffs drive a U.S-China “decoupling,” said Gordon Chang, as major U.S. companies move parts of their supply chains out of China.

President Donald Trump should draw from Ronald Reagan’s approach to the Soviet Union and broader communism in delivering a “resolute statement” with “moral clarity” on the matter of ongoing demonstrations in Hong Kong, assessed Gordon Chang, Daily Beast columnist and expert on China.

President Donald Trump and the U.S. Congress should declare, “We are Hong Kongers,” said Frank Gaffney, executive chairman of the Center for Security Policy and host of Secure Freedom Radio, in a Wednesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

President Donald Trump should launch a “Manhattan Project program to dominate technology” and “restore American technological leadership,” said David P. Goldman, economist, author, senior fellow at the London Center for Policy Research, and Asia Times columnist writing under the pseudonym “Spengler,” in a Monday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.

China’s Communist Party is “very happy to kill tens of thousands of Americans each year” with its fentanyl exports, knowing of overdoses related to the opiate’s abuse, said Gordon Chang

The Iranian regime warned Brazil on Tuesday that it may suffer economic “consequences” after state-run oil company Petrobras refused to refuel two Iranian ships stranded off the South American coast.

Henry Olsen said “re-balancing” U.S.-China trade and fighting America’s “addiction” to profits from China is Donald Trump’s priority.

A think tank has warned that remaining in regulatory alignment with the European Union — in a customs union — would hurt the United Kingdom’s longterm global trade opportunities.

Arthur Laffer praised Donald Trump’s economic policies while warning of Bernie Sanders’ socialistic prescriptions for centralization.

Former Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI) told Breitbart News that President Donald Trump’s positions on international trade have reshaped the Republican Party’s voter base.

Washington Examiner commentary editor Timothy Carney, author of Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse, described the “destruction of a way of life” among “working class” people in rural and industrial regions wrought by the status quo of globalization in a Monday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.

Gordon Chang warned that America is “unsafe” with Steve Mnuchin in a leadership position in trade negotiations with China.

Britain, France and Germany on Thursday launched a long-promised joint trade mechanism designed to evade U.S. sanctions on Iran, drawing applause from the Islamic republic — and an immediate warning from Washington.

Japan has finalised a long-delayed free trade agreement with the European Union — without having to join the bloc’s Customs Union, submit to its Free Movement immigration regime, or pay it tens of billions of euros.

Fmr. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper called on the West to to keep Chinese telecommunications company Huawei out of 5G networks.

The White House corrected a misstatement made by Larry Kudlow on Monday, noting that a trade truce with China began on December 1.

The collapse of American manufacturing thanks to decades of international free trade agreements acted as the catalyst for the general economic decline of the U.S. white working class and black Americans, a new study reveals.

President Donald Trump declared the G7 summit a success for the United States in an interview with Fox & Friends on Friday.

President Donald Trump is set to announce tariffs and investment restrictions aimed at convincing China to halt practices the U.S. believes are a form of economic aggression, according to White House officials.

Michael Pillsbury, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute and author of The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower, described the Trump Administration’s implementation of tariffs on aluminum and steel imports as insufficient measures towards curbing China’s goal of displacing U.S. geopolitical global dominance.

John Zmirak, senior editor at The Stream, warned in an interview Tuesday on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with co-hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak that China is “arming faster than Hitler was arming in the thirties.”

Rick Manning, president of Americans for Limited Government, discussed America’s aluminum and steel industries in an interview Monday on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with co-hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak. Destruction of America’s aluminum and steel industries via Chinese commodity dumping would leave America “vulnerable to blackmail on key component parts” needed for the U.S. to have “a modern industrial economy,” Manning said.

President Trump’s planned steel and aluminum tariffs will combat China’s “deliberate attempt to bankrupt our strategic industries” vital to our national defense, said Curtis Ellis, the senior policy adviser for America First Policies.

Trump previews a new round of trade penalties to be applied against other countries that tax U.S. products.

China pushed back this week against U.S. criticism of its mercantilism policies and attempts to force U.S. companies to transfer technology to Chinese firms

The British Government’s leading Remainer, Philip Hammond, is thought to have triumphed over his Leave-supporting rivals in Cabinet, with the UK set to agree to a transitional Brexit which will allow the EU to block new UK trade deals.