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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the highest-ranking elected Democrat in American politics at the moment, in an interview with the Washington Post on Wednesday, backed up Republican President Donald Trump’s stance on China.

David P. Goldman, Asia Times columnist, told Breitbart News “tariffs aren’t going to be enough to stop the Chinese juggernaut.”

Former Vice President and 2020 Democrat candidate for president Joe Biden still does not recognize the “huge mistake” and “disaster” of bringing China into the World Trade Organization (WTO), Curtis Ellis of America First Policies says.

Chinese officials say they are still preparing to send a delegation for further trade talks but vow not to give in to U.S. pressure.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer backed President Donald Trump on the China trade talks this weekend as negotiations between the United States and the Chinese escalated in the wake of the president’s announced increased tariffs on Chinese imports.

President Trump accused China of attempting to renegotiate terms of a trade deal with the U.S. and announced a big tariff hike.

President Donald Trump is now willing to commit real money—federal money—to his infrastructure push, and without a doubt, the need is real.

The country’s top union bosses are hoping millions of American workers forget about former Vice President Joe Biden’s longtime support of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) deal — which helped to eliminate nearly five million U.S. manufacturing jobs — in the 2020 presidential election.

In 2007, then-Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) defended the job-killing, pro-outsourcing North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) years after voting in support of the free trade deal that ultimately helped lead to the elimination of nearly five million U.S. manufacturing jobs. 

Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is challenging President Donald Trump to do more to prevent multinational corporations from outsourcing and offshoring American jobs and sending them abroad.

Former Trump 2016 campaign communications adviser Jason Miller spoke to Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM radio listeners over the weekend about 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden’s weak campaign rollout.

Speaking at a conference in Los Angeles, Treasury Secretary Mnuchin said the trade talks are still making progress.

President Donald Trump revealed at a Saturday night rally in Wisconsin that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told him earlier that Japanese auto manufacturers are investing $40 billion in U.S. manufacturing facilities.

The United States Chamber of Commerce is vowing to continue fighting President Trump’s shaping of the Republican Party into a pro-U.S. worker party of blue collar working and middle class Americans.

The South China Morning Post reported Monday on Chinese businessmen complaining that Beijing’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is generating too many profits for foreign firms and subjecting Chinese companies to increased competition.

President Trump’s hand-picked appointees for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) defied his “Buy American” economic nationalist agenda in a recent case where they voted to protect companies who falsely claimed their Chinese-manufactured products were “Made in America.”  

Trump administration officials may no longer insist that China stop subsidizing its “national champions.”

Mnuchin announced that the U.S. and China had agreed on enforcement, the last major hurdle to a trade deal.|

Prices of cars, trucks, and soup are up by less than 1 percent compard with a year ago. TV prices have fallen by 19.3 percent

Jessica Vaughan offered seven recommendations to Donald Trump to further the president’s agenda on border security and immigration.

President Donald Trump told reporters from the Oval Office Thursday just before meeting with the Chinese Vice Premier that they will probably know if there will be a trade deal between the two nations within four weeks.

“We need help from Mexico, if Mexico doesn’t give the help, that’s okay, we’re going to tariff their cars coming into the United States,” Trump said. 

President Donald Trump spoke at the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) spring dinner in Washington on Tuesday, saying he referred to Chinese President Xi Jinping as the “king” of China during their 2017 meeting in Beijing and that Xi considered it a compliment.

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.

Factory figures for March suggest that the U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods are not as much as a drag as they appeared to be.

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin just completed a trip to Beijing. 

It’s time to finally put to rest the idea that the steel and aluminum tariffs would hurt American workers and raise unemployment.

After a rush of imports in December, the trade deficit fell in January thanks to lower imports from China and cheaper oil.

A former official of China’s central bank said that Robert Lighthizer and other U.S. officials did not show enough respect.

A dark cloud has lifted from over the trade talks between the U.S. and China.

A handful of billionaire and millionaire donors from the failed “Never Trump” movement in the 2016 presidential election have enjoyed access to President Trump’s White House via Vice President Mike Pence, a new report confirms. 

U.S. and Chinese trade officials will meet in Beijing next week and the following week in Washington, DC, for another round of pre-tariff increase trade talks.

The Trump administration will not immediately lift tariffs even if the China trade talks are successful, the president said.

America First Policies Senior Policy Adviser Curtis Ellis says President Trump should impose a 25 percent tariff on auto imports to save American auto manufacturing from China’s efforts to dominate the industry.

Even as U.S. and Chinese officials have planned meetings in D.C. and Beijing, there are reports of trouble for the trade talks.

Trump’s metals tariffs have been accompanied by a booming market in metals-using manufacturing, defying predictions of doom.