In response to Donald Trump’s first term as president, Xi Jinping, China’s leader, initiated a campaign to reduce China’s economic dependence on America. Chinese officials are hoping that a revival in domestic demand,

By Laurie Chen, Michael Martina and David Brunnstrom BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In its first months, U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has moved to deter China from threatening its neighbors,

The tariffs are part of a new plan announced by President Donald Trump yesterday on what he dubbed "Liberation Day."

Donald Trump’s decision to boost tariffs on almost every country will deal a blow to China’s economy. But it’s also handing Xi Jinping a rare opening to deepen relationships across the board, including with key US allies in Asia and beyond.

China vowed to retaliate against Donald Trump’s biggest tariffs yet, putting the world’s largest economies on a collision course that risks decimating bilateral trade and upending supply chains.

President Donald Trump imposed the steepest American tariffs in a century, stepping up his campaign to reshape the global economy and unnerving investors who see a trade war as a risk to US growth.

Stock markets across Asia fell upon opening Thursday morning after President Donald Trump imposed huge tariffs on all the region’s leading economies, including increasing the blanket levy on Chinese exports to the United States from 20 to 54 percent.

As Donald Trump’s April 2 “Liberation Day” for announcing “reciprocal” tariffs on America’s trading partners approaches, the question in Beijing is whether this will be the moment when its nascent trade war with the US really escalates.