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President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday via Truth Social a 90-day pause on tariffs for countries that have reached out to address trade deficits, and a 125% tariff on China. The pause comes a week after “Liberation Day,” the day in which the tariffs were first introduced.

President Donald Trump enacted 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico on Tuesday, and 35% tariffs on China. The countries responded by placing equal tariffs of their own, with China blacklisting 20 US companies. Earlier today, Trump announced he would delay tariffs on Mexico for USMCA compliant goods. On Monday, the Dow fell by nearly 650 points as the market prepared for the tariffs.

Almost immediately after the COVID-19 pandemic began, people speculated about how it started. Most of this focused on China, where the pandemic began, and specifically on the city of Wuhan.

Officially founded in 2009, BRICS is an informal, multilateral economic alliance between Brazil, Russia, China, India, South Africa, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates.

Here are some perspectives on how U.S. policymakers should approach crafting TikTok legislation.

A bill is progressing through Congress that would give the Chinese company behind TikTok an ultimatum: sell the app to an American company or be banned in the United States.

President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping met this week after a bad year for US-China relations.

On November 1, the House Oversight Committee claimed that Joe Biden “received $40,000 in laundered China money.” Let’s work through what evidence the committee has — and lacks — to back up this claim.

Framing the border problems in the context of opioids rather than immigrants presents a potential benefit for GOP candidates.

New intelligence has led the Department of Energy (DOE) to shift its stance on COVID-19's origins and support the lab leak theory, once deemed a conspiracy by some politicians, journalists, and scientists.