In 2015, Amazon.com Inc. began quietly evaluating a startup called Elemental Technologies, a potential acquisition to help with a major expansion of its streaming video service, known today as Amazon Prime Video. Based in Portland, Ore., Elemental made software for compressing massive video files and formatting them for different devices. Its technology had helped stream […]
Rising Tensions with China: Jim Mattis Cancels Visit and U.S. Warship Has ‘Unsafe’ Encounter at Sea…
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has canceled a planned visit to China this month, a sign of the rising tensions between Washington and Beijing over trade and China’s expansive maritime claims in the South China Sea. The word from the Pentagon comes one day after a U.S. warship had an “unsafe” encounter with a Chinese destroyer […]
Tensions Grow as China, Russia and Iran Lead the Way Towards a New Multipolar World Order…
Kim Asks for 2nd Summit With Trump, Promises Swift Surrender of Nuclear Arsenal…
Even though North Korea has reneged on similar promises in the past, Kim Jong Un’s promise to allow international observers into the isolated country to monitor the dismantling of the North’s Yongbyon nuclear reactor and several missile-launching sites has apparently persuaded the US to restart negotiations to drop sanctions against the regime after they stalled […]
Pyongyang Agrees to Start Denuclearization Process…
Kim Jong Un Lavishes 2 Tons of Prized Mushrooms On S. Korea As Peace Token…
China Retaliates After US Imposes New $200 Billion Tariffs…
The latest US salvo against China has escalated the threat of a trade war between the world’s two largest economies. China has responded by announcing countermeasures affecting up to $60 billion worth of US exports. The United States has announced fresh tariffs on $200 billion (€171 billion) worth of Chinese goods, spooking markets worried about […]
President Trump and USTR Lighthizer Announce Round #2 Tariffs on $200 Billion of Chinese Imports – Full List Pdf…
President Trump has instructed U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to execute Round Two of tariffs on Chinese imports. The first round applied to $50 billion in products. The current round applies a 10% tariff to $200 billion (effective Sept. 24, 2018), until January 1st, 2019, when the tariff increases to 25%. The list of products […]
Will Add Another $267BN If China Retaliates…
Report: Canada Comfortable Resisting Trump by Intentionally Missing Trade Negotiation Timeline…
According to a CBC article citing a “Senior Canadian Official”, the Trudeau government is completely “comfortable” missing an October 1st deadline to join the U.S-Mexico trade alliance: …”The source who spoke to CBC News on background, due to the sensitivity of the talks, said the external political pressure “is not a good enough reason,” for […]
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