I was among 700 people in the hall to hear Donald Trump address the World Economic Forum in Davos. I wondered whether his blunt style landed.
In 2017, weeks after Donald Trump’s first presidential election victory, Xi Jinping became the first Chinese head of state to address the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland — winning applause as he inveighed against protectionism and declared that a trade war would hurt both sides.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and a handful of European leaders. LONDON — It's that time of year when the great and the good gather for the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. A slew of heads of state, politicians and business moguls are ...
The president last week inserted himself into the debate over interest rates ahead of the central bank’s meeting this week.
President Donald Trump corrected World Economic Forum CEO Børge Brende after Brende asked about a conversation with President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping. "He called me."
When Bao Li and Qing Bao arrived in Washington DC on Friday, they were given a heroes’ welcome...
Trump’s image dominated the room from multiple screens. Below the movie-theater-size emperor at center stage sat five business and political leaders looking tiny in their WEF-logo seats. Once they might have been called “masters of the universe” themselves, but now they were just supplicants lobbing softball questions at the Übermensch.
"If you don’t make your product in America, which is your prerogative, then very simply, you will have to pay a tariff."
Trump took multiple jabs at China, including the spread of COVID from Wuhan and Beijing’s unfair trade practices. Despite that, he appeared willing to engage with Xi to fulfil a promise he has fallen
On the campaign trail last year, President Donald Trump talked tough about imposing tariffs as high as 60% on Chinese goods and threatened to renew the trade war with China that he launched during his first term.
During a Q&A Thursday with the World Economic Forum, one of the panelists asked President Trump about China: "We know that you called President Xi Jinping last Friday..." President Trump corrected: "He called me,
China is not seeking a trade surplus and is willing to import more competitive and high-quality products and services to balance trade, Ding Xuexiang, the country’s vice premier, said on Tuesday.