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With tariffs on our closest allies, what kind of trade policy is this?

by Peter Balonon-Rosen
Jun 1, 2018
It's "a steady policy of throwing stink bombs into rooms, having the room clear out and then saying, 'OK, let's sit down and talk.'"
Mexico announced sweeping retaliatory tariffs on a host of U.S. goods Thursday after the United States slapped steep tariffs on steel and aluminum from Mexico, Canada and the European Union. Above, a man works in a steel distribution factory in Monterrey in northern Mexico on May 31.
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This guy will make anything, as long as he can make it in America

by Kai Ryssdal and Daisy Palacios
May 31, 2018
Part of John Anker's business model is to convince companies to outsource to his company, rather than overseas.
John Anker, president of Ankerpak in Columbus, Georgia.
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The Trump administration may restrict visas for certain Chinese students in STEM fields

by Kimberly Adams
May 30, 2018
Reports say grad students may be issued visas good for just a year at a time, rather than the multi-year type that are common now.
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Trade tensions between the U.S. and China heat up again on President Trump’s latest tariffs threat

by Scott Tong
May 29, 2018
The president wants to stop China from acquiring intellectual property and stealing our technology.
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The business of dealing with China's cheating husbands

by Jennifer Pak
May 28, 2018
Scorned wives can pay experts tens of thousands of dollars to make their husband's mistresses break off the affair.
A man uses his mobile phone for messaging in an underpass in Beijing 20 July 2004.
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Here’s how the supply chain for car-making got global

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
May 24, 2018
President Donald Trump has ordered the Commerce Department to look into whether higher tariffs are needed on imports of cars, trucks and automotive parts, in the interest of national security. But how do you decide if a vehicle is imported? These days, some American brands are made overseas. Foreign carmakers have factories in the U.S. […]
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Qualcomm CEO isn't too worried about our trade war with China

by Kai Ryssdal and Bridget Bodnar
May 23, 2018
"We actually feel like we have a seat at the table on both sides of the trade dispute," Steven Mollenkopf says.
“There is a responsibility to make sure that the technologies that you create have the proper technology built in so that it's used appropriately,” Qualcomm CEO Steven Mollenkopf says. Above, he speaks at a tech conference in October.
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China's "professional" pick-up artists

by Jennifer Pak
May 22, 2018
Services promise men can get women even if they're not tall, handsome or rich.
Dating expert Cheng Zhen talks with three of his fans who caught the bullet train just to see him.
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For scrap brokers, the trade war is not "on hold"

by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst
May 21, 2018
One broker says he'll have to do "a lot of juggling" if China won' import U.S. scrap.
Scrap metal to be used in steel production is piled at the Zhong Tian (Zenith) Steel Group Corp. in 2016 in Changzhou, Jiangsu.
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Congress weighs changes to foreign investment oversight

by Tracey Samuelson
May 21, 2018
The Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act is likely headed for a vote in the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday.
The flag of the People's Republic of China hangs next to an American flag in New York.
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