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FILE – Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi gestures as U.S. President Donald Trump delivers his speech during their visit to the aircraft carrier USS George Washington at the U.S. Navy’s Yokosuka base in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025.

Japan says Donald Trump has invited its leader to the US. It comes as ties with China are strained.

January 2, 2026 at 7:42 p.m.

President Donald Trump invited Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi during a phone call Friday to visit the United States this year, the Japanese foreign ministry said.

FILE – President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with China’s President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

US starts investigating China’s compliance with 2020 trade deal as Donald Trump heads to Asia

October 24, 2025 at 6:08 p.m.

U.S. officials are launching an investigation into whether China lived up to its commitments under a 2020 trade pact that President Donald Trump described at the time as “an incredible...

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer attends the ASEAN Economic Ministers’ Meeting and related meetings in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025. (AP Photo)

To hit back at the United States in their trade war, China borrows from the US playbook

October 19, 2025 at 7:26 p.m.

China likes to condemn the United States for extending its arm too far outside of its borders to make demands on non-American companies. But when it sought to hit back...

President Donald Trump calls on a reporter to ask a question during a meeting with Finland’s President Alexander Stubb in the Oval Office at the White House, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

President Donald Trump suggests canceling Xi meeting and threatens more tariffs after China restricts key exports

October 10, 2025 at 3:57 p.m.

President Donald Trump said Friday that “there seems to be no reason” to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping as part of an upcoming trip to South Korea and threatened...

Brian Warpup inspects one of his soybean fields in Warren, Indiana, Sept. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Trump’s trade battle with China puts US soybean farmers in peril

September 27, 2025 at 1:24 p.m.

American soybean farmers are worried as China has in effect boycotted their crops to retaliate for the high tariffs President Trump has imposed on Chinese goods.

President Donald Trump says he and China’s Xi will meet in South Korea in coming weeks and he’ll later go to China

September 19, 2025 at 3:36 p.m.

U.S. President Donald Trump said he would meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping at a regional summit taking place at the end of October in South Korea and will visit China...

US and China reach a framework deal on TikTok

September 15, 2025 at 3:11 p.m.

A framework deal has been reached between China and the U.S. for the ownership of popular social video platform TikTok, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said after weekend trade talks...

FILE – The Pentagon, the headquarters for the U.S. Department of Defense, is seen from the air, Aug. 20, 2025, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Pentagon-funded research at colleges has aided the Chinese military, a House GOP report says

September 5, 2025 at 4:54 p.m.

The report, released Friday by House Republicans on the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, argues the projects have allowed China to exploit U.S. research partnerships for military gains...

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Monday, Aug. 11, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

US and China extend trade truce another 90 days, easing tension between world’s largest economies

August 12, 2025 at 6:33 a.m.

President Donald Trump extended a trade truce with China for another 90 days Monday, at least delaying once again a dangerous showdown between the world’s two biggest economies.

FILE – A Russian and Chinese national flag flutter near Tiananmen Gate for the visiting Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, in Beijing, May 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

China pushes back at US demands to stop buying Russian and Iranian oil

August 3, 2025 at 7:21 p.m.

U.S. and Chinese officials may be able to settle many of their differences to reach a trade deal and avert punishing tariffs, but they remain far apart on one issue:...

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