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Trump, Xi Spark Another Standoff With World Economy at Risk

Andreas Landwehr @andreaslandwehr.bsky.social · 1d

Trump and Xi Jinping’s latest tit-for-tat showdown has both countries claiming the ball is now in the other’s court, with the clock ticking toward another escalation in import tariffs www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s latest tit-for-tat showdown has both countries claiming the ball is now in the other’s court, with the clock ticking toward another escalation...

China Hosts a Summit on Women’s Rights, While Stifling Activism

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Andreas Landwehr @andreaslandwehr.bsky.social · 1d

Beneath the pageantry, the fight for women’s rights in China has become more difficult in recent years www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Retaliation or escalation? Trust between the U.S. and China is fading fast, analysts say

Andreas Landwehr @andreaslandwehr.bsky.social · 1d

"On the specific episode the market is focused on, the two sides may still return to the table to find a short-term fix. However, it won't be a lasting solution," said Jianwei Xu, senior economist for Greater China at Natixis. "The trust between them is already gone." www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/r...

The flare-up in tensions between the U.S. and China over the weekend points to deteriorating trust between the world's two largest economies, analysts said.

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Andreas Landwehr @andreaslandwehr.bsky.social · 1d

Chinese shipments overseas grew at the fastest in six months, far exceeding forecasts in a sign of resilience that’s giving Beijing a stronger hand in the latest trade war with the US www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Chinese Exports Surge, Giving Xi Stronger Hand in Trade Fight

Chinese shipments overseas grew at the fastest in six months, far exceeding forecasts in a sign of resilience that’s giving Beijing a stronger hand in the latest trade war with the US.

China September exports beat expectations, imports rise at fastest pace since April 2024

Andreas Landwehr @andreaslandwehr.bsky.social · 1d

China's exports climbed at the fastest pace in six months in September, while imports logged their strongest gain in more than a year, despite the trade uncertainties. Exports grew 8.3% in U.S. dollar terms from a year earlier, beating expectations www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/c...

Tensions between Beijing and Washington have flared again in recent days as both sides traded barbs and ramped up respective restrictions.

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Andreas Landwehr @andreaslandwehr.bsky.social · 1d

Major stock markets across Asia Pacific region sank Monday amid mounting fears of a renewed trade war between the world’s two largest economies, after Trump threatened to impose new triple-digit tariffs on Chinese imports www.cnn.com/2025/10/12/m...

Fears of renewed US-China trade tensions send Asian stocks south | CNN Business

Major stock markets across Asia Pacific region sank Monday amid mounting fears of a renewed trade war between the world’s two largest economies, after US President Donald Trump threatened to impose ne...

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Andreas Landwehr @andreaslandwehr.bsky.social · 2d

“That is literally an embargo … Who is going to do business with China?” The country was already seeing economic momentum slow before Trump announced the latest 100% tariff increase, part of a trade-war flare-up that Beijing blamed on the U.S. www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

Trump’s Fresh Tariff Assault Threatens China’s Fragile Economy

Beijing was already seeing growth slow before Trump announced the latest 100% tariff increase, part of a trade-war flare-up that China has blamed on the U.S.

Trump wanted a trade deal. Xi opened a new front instead.

Andreas Landwehr @andreaslandwehr.bsky.social · 2d

“China is flexing its power and trying to show the world that it has the ability to act as a major choke point for global trade.” www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Beijing’s rare earth crackdown lays bare the fusion of economic rivalry and national security risk.

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Andreas Landwehr @andreaslandwehr.bsky.social · 2d

Trump’s preference to cut one-to-one deals with allies and adversaries has been the hallmark of his self-proclaimed dealmaking magic, but with the China trade truce seemingly teetering on collapse, the fragility of such an approach has been laid bare www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump’s Dealmaking Diplomacy Grows Fragile as China Fires Back

President Donald Trump’s preference to cut one-to-one deals with allies and adversaries has been the hallmark of his self-proclaimed dealmaking magic, but with the China trade truce seemingly teeterin...

Trump Announces Additional 100% China Tariff, Tech Controls

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Andreas Landwehr @andreaslandwehr.bsky.social · 3d

Trump said he would impose an additional 100% tariff on China as well as export controls on “any and all critical software” beginning Nov. 1, hours after threatening to cancel an upcoming meeting with Xi Jinping www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

US President Donald Trump said he would impose an additional 100% tariff on China as well as export controls on “any and all critical software” beginning Nov. 1, hours after threatening to cancel an u...

Trump to Hit China With Additional 100% Tariff, Citing Restrictions on Rare-Earth Elements

Andreas Landwehr @andreaslandwehr.bsky.social · 3d

President Trump said Friday he would hit China with a 100% additional tariff and impose new export controls on critical software products www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The president also said he would impose new export controls on critical software products in response to Beijing’s moves.

The World’s Chip Supply Chain Is Bracing for Fallout From China’s Rare-Earth Curbs

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Andreas Landwehr @andreaslandwehr.bsky.social · 3d

Businesses across the global semiconductor supply chain are bracing themselves for disruptions from China’s most targeted move yet to limit their supplies of rare-earth materials www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Businesses across the global semiconductor supply chain are bracing themselves for disruptions from China’s most targeted move yet to limit their supplies of rare-earth materials, which are critical t...

Trump Threatens New China Tariffs, Sees ‘No Reason’ to Meet Xi

Andreas Landwehr @andreaslandwehr.bsky.social · 3d

Trump threatened a “massive increase” of tariffs on goods from China and to cancel an upcoming meeting with the country’s leader, Xi Jinping, citing recent “hostile” export controls Beijing placed on rare-earth minerals www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

US President Donald Trump threatened a “massive increase” of tariffs on goods from China and to cancel an upcoming meeting with the country’s leader, Xi Jinping, citing recent “hostile” export control...

New mock Taiwan government buildings spotted at mainland Chinese military base

Andreas Landwehr @andreaslandwehr.bsky.social · 4d

Beijing has built more structures resembling Taiwan’s key government buildings at its military base in Inner Mongolia, according to satellite images obtained by a Japanese think tank, a move that suggests more systematic training for a potential conflict
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Japanese media report says simulated Taiwanese government compound for training PLA soldiers has expanded nearly threefold since 2020.

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Andreas Landwehr @andreaslandwehr.bsky.social · 4d

China’s newest restrictions on rare-earth materials would mark a nearly unprecedented export control that stands to disrupt the global economy, giving Beijing more leverage in trade negotiations and ratcheting up pressure on the Trump administration to respond www.wsj.com/world/china/...

China’s Rare-Earth Escalation Threatens Trade Talks—and the Global Economy

President Trump says the administration is weighing a U.S. response to Beijing’s newest restrictions.

China’s New Rare Earth and Magnet Restrictions Threaten U.S. Defense Supply Chains

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Andreas Landwehr @andreaslandwehr.bsky.social · 4d

The review process gives Chinese authorities significant discretion to delay, deny, or condition exports, effectively introducing a new layer of strategic control over the global supply of rare earth inputs critical to computing and defense technologies www.csis.org/analysis/chi...

China has imposed its most stringent rare earth and magnet export controls yet, restricting products with even trace Chinese content. This bolsters its leverage ahead of the Trump-Xi meeting and heigh...

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China Widens Rare Earth Curbs Ahead of Key Xi-Trump Meeting

Andreas Landwehr @andreaslandwehr.bsky.social · 4d

While it’s unclear how Beijing plans to enforce the rules, they mark an escalation in China’s campaign to wield extraterritorial controls. The curbs mirror Washington’s own export regime, which bans Chinese companies from accessing cutting-edge chips and tools www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

China has unveiled broad new curbs on its exports of rare earths and other critical materials, as Beijing moves to shore up its trade war leverage ahead of a high-stakes meeting this month between Don...

European parliament renews its call on China to release Swedish publisher Gui Minhai, kidnapped 10 years ago

Andreas Landwehr @andreaslandwehr.bsky.social · 4d

European parliament calls on China to release Swedish publisher Gui Minhai, kidnapped 10 years ago
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) welcomes a resolution adopted by the European Parliament on 9 October 2025, calling on China to release Swedish publisher Gui Minhai, who was kidnapped by Chinese agent...

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Andreas Landwehr @andreaslandwehr.bsky.social · 5d

Beijing has announced sanctions on a slew of Western companies and institutions in the defence sector and a leading semiconductor data analysis provider, marking its latest salvo amid ongoing trade tensions with the United States
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Developing | China sanctions US defence firms, chip data provider in latest curbs

Beijing targets 14 entities, most of them based in the US, on the same day it imposed new rare earth export controls.

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Andreas Landwehr @andreaslandwehr.bsky.social · 5d

Chinese military exercises around Taiwan have sparked an urgent effort in Taipei and Washington to address a critical vulnerability on the island: It is almost entirely dependent on imported fuel www.wsj.com/world/asia/c...

How China Threatens to Force Taiwan Into a Total Blackout

A Chinese blockade would quickly deplete resources on an island that depends on imported fuel.

Addressing a Resurgent China: A New Mindset for Strategic Competition • Stimson Center

Andreas Landwehr @andreaslandwehr.bsky.social · 5d

„China’s principal competitive challenge to the United States is not military, economic, or diplomatic, but psychological“ www.stimson.org/2025/address...

Can either China or the U.S. “win” strategic competition?

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Andreas Landwehr @andreaslandwehr.bsky.social · 5d

China tightened its control over critical minerals used to make high-tech products including electric vehicles and jet fighters, threatening to reignite trade tensions with the U.S. ahead of an expected meeting between Trump and Xi Jinping www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

China Tightens Grip on Rare Earths Ahead of Expected Trump-Xi Meeting

Foreign organizations and individuals must now obtain a dual-use export license from China’s Ministry of Commerce before exporting rare-earth products, technologies, or other dual-use items.

China unveils ‘major upgrade’ to rare earth controls ahead of Xi-Trump meeting

Andreas Landwehr @andreaslandwehr.bsky.social · 5d

China’s restrictions covering the export of technologies related to rare earth mining, smelting and separation, magnetic material manufacturing, as well as the use and recycling of rare earth secondary resources will take effect immediately
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The wider restrictions will give Beijing greater leverage in coming negotiations with the US, analysts said.

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