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TRENDING TOPICS, MOST CREDIBLE STORIES | | #1 in U.S. News • 24 articles What is President Biden's trade policy with China? |  | |
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U.S. trade chief Tai seeks talks with China, won't rule out new tariff actions.
Reuters (Center) • Factual Grade 84% • 4 min read
U.S. trade negotiator Katherine Tai said she will seek a meeting with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He to review China's failure to comply with the "Phase 1" trade deal launched in February 2020. Tai also said she would revive a "targeted" process of approving exclusions for certain Chinese imports from punitive U.S. tariffs, offering some relief to U.S. industry.
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Tai said the U.S. would keep all options open as it continues to push China to stop pouring billions in state subsidies into its semiconductor, steel and other industries that Washington says harm U.S. companies. She rejected the idea of separate "Phase 2" talks envisioned by Trump to tackle issues such as massive subsidies to domestic industries.
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The Trump-era trade deal, which help defuse a trade war that heaped tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars worth of goods from both countries, also called for China to improve protections for some U.S. intellectual property and market access for U.S. biotechnology and financial services firms. President Biden kept in place the tariffs imposed by Trump.
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President Biden's China trade policy is littered with contradictions.
Reason (Moderate Right) • Factual Grade 79% • 4 min read - Top long-read
When it comes to China, Biden sounds a lot like Trump.
FiveThirtyEight (Moderate Left) • Factual Grade 78% • 9 min read
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| | #2 in U.S. News • 11 articles Why is the US Postal Service experimenting with providing banking services? | 
Customers [in four cities] can now cash payroll or business checks of up to $500 at post office locations, and have the money put onto a single-use gift card. A generic gift card, an ex...
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that the city of Auckland will begin to ease lockdown restrictions beginning Wednesday — Auckland...
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| | #1 in Tech News • 80 articles Why were Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp unavailable for hours on Monday? |
There was no evidence as of Monday afternoon that malicious activity was involved. Facebook blamed changes on routers that coordinate network traffic between data cente...
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| | #1 in Health News • 13 articles Why is an experimental brain implant being lauded as a depression treatment? |
The device works by detecting patterns of brain activity linked to depression and automatically interrupting them using tiny pulses of electrical stimulation delivered deep insi...
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