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Nicolas Asfouri | AFP | Getty Images China’s President Xi Jinping shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump (L) during a business leaders event at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Nov. 9, 2017. China has no choice but to fight back against U.S. bullying on trade, …

J.B. Forbes | St. Louis Post-Dispatch | TNS | Getty Images Truck driver Marion Howard watches soy beans load into his truck on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017, at Chris Crosskno’s farm near Denton, Mo. A wave of Chinese tariffs on U.S. goods is set to come into effect Friday as …

Kay Nietfeld | picture alliance | Getty Images German Chancellor Angela Merkel  and Volker Kauder (CDU), faction leader of the Christian Democratic and Social Unions (CDU/CSU), speak at the Bundestag on the topic of the Chancellery’s budget. The parties in Germany’s ruling coalition have reached an agreement in a dispute …

Sean Gallup | Getty Images German Chancellor Angela Merkel gives a government declaration at the Bundestag ahead of the upcoming E.U. and NATO summits on June 28, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday she would back lowering European Union tariffs on U.S. car imports, responding …

Emmanuel Dunnand | AFP | Getty Images NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (C) speaks with US President Donald Trump (L) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) as they arrive for the unveiling ceremony of the Berlin Wall monument, during the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) summit at the NATO headquarters, …

Roslan Rahman | AFP | Getty Images This photo illustration taken on March 26, 2018 shows the Grab and Uber booking application seen on a smart phone in Singapore.  Singapore’s competition watchdog on Thursday proposed fines on Uber and Grab and said they may have to unwind their merger because …

Mario Centeno, Portugal’s finance minister and head of the group of euro-area finance ministers, listens during a press conference following a Eurogroup meeting in Brussels, Belgium, on Monday, Jan. 22, 2018.  Higher trade tariffs might just be what the euro zone needs to check how its economy is actually performing …

Nelson Ching | Bloomberg | Getty Images Workers manufacture cotton yarn at a factory in Dali county, Shaanxi province, China. China’s commerce ministry said on Thursday that U.S. tariffs will hit global supply chains including foreign companies in China, reiterating that Beijing does not want to fight a trade war …

LUDOVIC MARIN | AFP | Getty Images Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel (C) reacts as she speaks with European Council President Donald Tusk (L) and Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez during an European Union leaders’ summit focused on migration, Brexit and eurozone reforms on June 28, 2018 at the Europa building …

Toby Melville | Reuters Police officers seal off the road on which Russian Sergei Skripal and his daughter have been staying in Salisbury, Britain, March 7, 2018. Britain’s counter-terrorism chief said on Wednesday that two people whoare critically ill in hospital in Wiltshire were exposed to the Novichok nerve agent, …