Xi’s Communist Party is talking of “win-win” solutions to tensions, such as importing more goods from around the globe. Trump is all of a sudden talking down tensions, too. The absence of “day one” tariffs shocked China.

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.

The Swiss town of Davos will this week host what amounts to an exclusive watch party for the season premiere of Donald Trump’s second term. The annual gathering of the World Economic Forum (WEF), held in the alpine resort each January,

When Bao Li and Qing Bao arrived in Washington DC on Friday, they were given a heroes’ welcome...

In his first speech at the World Economic Forum of his second term, US President Donald Trump voiced optimism about Sino-American relations while warning of tariffs on companies that do not manufacture stateside.

​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

The president targeted Europe for trade inequities and encouraged countries across the globe to invest in manufacturing in the U.S.—or face steep duties.

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.

It is Donald Trump’s world now. Nowhere was this more obvious than at the World Economic Forum’s latest annual gathering in Davos. Since the 1970s, the WEF has been an integral part of the liberal