States calibrate their wartime trade to maximize the economic benefits to their domestic economies while minimizing the military advantage that policy provides their adversaries. That nuance allows ...

China accused the U.S. of "double standards" and defended its new export controls on rare earths as a "legitimate" measure under international law. "China's position on the trade war is consistent: we ...

While Trump described the reduction of tariffs on Indian goods as an act of reciprocity, an idea rooted in early American ...

President Donald Trump is threatening Canada with a 50% tariff on any aircraft sold in the U.S., the latest salvo in his trade war with America’s northern neighbor as his feud with Prime Minister Mark ...

Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are due to meet in South Korea next week. However, it is uncertain whether they actually will. Such is the shocking state of the world’s most important relationship. For ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The latest CNBC Supply Chain Survey finds apparel & footwear items as the most-popular product categories moving inside the supply chain. The outlook for spending on high‑end furniture, aspirational ...

A little more than 10 months into Donald Trump’s second presidency, Washington continues to feel the negative impacts from a new kind of trickle-down economics. In the wake of Trump’s trade war ...

U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping held their first summit of Trump’s current term – and their first in-person meeting in six years – in South Korea on October 30. According ...

Pakistan's DG ISPR, Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry's statement warning Afghanistan—"blood and business cannot go together"—now seems to have backfired and is hurting Islamabad itself. With ...