US President Donald Trump on Friday said China had “panicked” by retaliating to his reciprocal tariff with a matching levy of 34 per cent on all imported goods from America.
Triggering a full-blown trade war, China will impose additional 34 per cent tariffs on all products imported from the United States starting from April 10, the Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council announced on Friday.
It had the hallmarks of a reality TV cliffhanger. Until recently, many people had never even heard of tariffs.
India and Sri Lanka are set to sign a major Defence cooperation pact during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ongoing visit to Colombo, aimed at strengthening bilateral ties and countering the growing military influence of China in the region.
China’s latest military exercises in the East China Sea represent more than just routine drills ~ they are a direct message to Taiwan and the broader international community.
This protest started in August this year with the "Workers Lives Matter" movement that lamented the exploitative work practices common across the country's biggest companies.
Four new suspected cases arriving from outside the mainland were reported, and no new deaths from Covid-19 were reported on the day, it added.
The legislation is seemingly embedded in the presumption that goods from Xinjiang are invariably made with forced labour. Business enterprises will have to prove that forced labour, including that that by workers transferred from Xinjiang, was not used in manufacturing the product before it is allowed into the United States.
In every situation of not completing the fights that they had initiated, the West had precipitated incalculable miseries on the common person. To now leave half of the population to face possible starvation is not a moral option. While not recognising the Taliban regime or recognising the disastrous role of Pakistan in leading to the prevailing crisis in Afghanistan is one thing, ensuring vital supplies of relief material, food, medicines, and clothing for desperate Afghan civilians is an absolute necessity
The development could have significant ripple effects across the Middle East
