President Donald Trump’s tariff threats against Thailand and Cambodia pushed them toward ending their deadly border clash this week, showing again his willingness to use a trade war cudgel to stop armed conflict and upstaging China in its own backyard.

The U.S. cancelled a meeting with Taiwan's defence minister in June, highlighting concern that President Donald Trump is wary of supporting the island in ways that could harm U.S. relations with China,

Wall Street chugged mostly higher in premarket trading as Chinese and U.S. officials begin a second day of trade talks.

China’s trade had its worst week in almost three months, a sign this year’s record-breaking volumes may be starting to slow.

The United States and China are poised to start a fresh round of talks in Sweden, aiming to extend a temporary trade truce that held back triple-digit tariffs while the world’s two biggest economies try to broker a lasting deal.

President Donald Trump will make his trade deal decisions this week even as separate negotiations with China and the European Union continue, U.S. Commerce chief Howard Lutnick said on Tuesday ahead of Trump's self-imposed Aug.