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Today — 15 April 2025Main stream

Trump’s Tariff Threat for Drug imports Poses Big Political Risks

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Rebecca Robbins
15 April 2025 at 22:33
Levies on Americans’ daily prescriptions and other medicines could raise costs, spur rationing and lead to shortages of critical drugs.

© Sergei Gapon/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Most medications consumed in the United States are produced at least partly overseas. China and India do most of the production of cheaper generic drugs, while expensive patented medications are more often made in Europe or the United States.

What Are Rare Earth Metals, the Exports Halted by China?

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Eli Tan
15 April 2025 at 12:00
China’s new restrictions on exports of the metals could have an impact on the production of everything from LED lights to fighter jets.

© David Gray/Reuters

A smelting workshop in China’s Inner Mongolia in 2010. The vast majority of the world’s supply of rare earths is mined in China.

A Crisis at a British Steel Mill Has Cast a Shadow Over U.K.-China Relations

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Mark Landler
15 April 2025 at 12:01
Britain was edging closer to China, but a dispute at a Chinese-owned steel company in the U.K. may prompt a rethink.

© Dominic Lipinski/Reuters

A view of the blast furnaces in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, on Monday. They are the last working blast furnaces in Britain, producing crude steel which is vital for major construction projects.

Trump’s Trade War With China Could Be Good for India. But Is It Ready?

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Alex Travelli and Hari Kumar
15 April 2025 at 12:00
While India dreams of becoming a new factory to the world, its manufacturers are struggling to find skilled workers, secure components and overcome red tape.

© Elke Scholiers for The New York Times

India, with its enormous work force, has been trying to elbow into China’s manufacturing business for a long time, yet its factories are not ready.

A Crisis at a British Steel Mill Has Cast a Shadow Over U.K.-China Relations

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Mark Landler
15 April 2025 at 12:01
Britain was edging closer to China, but a dispute at a Chinese-owned steel company in the U.K. may prompt a rethink.

© Dominic Lipinski/Reuters

A view of the blast furnaces in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, on Monday. They are the last working blast furnaces in Britain, producing crude steel which is vital for major construction projects.

Trump’s Dilemma: A Trade War That Threatens Every Other Negotiation With China

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: David E. Sanger
15 April 2025 at 08:21
President Trump is staking everything on winning by imposing tariffs on China. But the fight threatens to choke off negotiations about other issues like Taiwan, fentanyl, TikTok and more.

© Tom Brenner for The New York Times

President Trump may be entering any eventual negotiations alone because he has alienated the allies who in recent years had come to a common approach to countering Chinese power.

Trump’s Dilemma: A Trade War That Threatens Every Other Negotiation With China

✇NYT | China
By: David E. Sanger
15 April 2025 at 08:21
President Trump is staking everything on winning by imposing tariffs on China. But the fight threatens to choke off negotiations about other issues like Taiwan, fentanyl, TikTok and more.

No Jail Time for Queens Man Convicted of Spying for China

✇NYT | China
By: Santul Nerkar
15 April 2025 at 07:00
Shujun Wang worked for a pro-democracy organization while passing information about dissidents to China, prosecutors said. He was sentenced to three years of supervised release.

No Jail Time for Queens Man Convicted of Spying for China

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Santul Nerkar
15 April 2025 at 07:00
Shujun Wang worked for a pro-democracy organization while passing information about dissidents to China, prosecutors said. He was sentenced to three years of supervised release.

© Benjamin Norman for The New York Times

Shujun Wang, an American citizen, billed himself as a scholar and democracy activist who fled China to build a new life in New York in the 1990s.

China’s Halt of Critical Minerals Poses Risk for U.S. Military Programs

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Helene Cooper
15 April 2025 at 06:45
The Pentagon and defense contractors are heavily reliant on magnets and rare earth minerals mined or processed in China, which has suspended exports of the materials in an escalating trade war.

© Kenny Holston/The New York Times

Rare earth minerals are present in almost every form of American defense technology. They can form very powerful magnets, for use in fighter jets, warships, missiles, tanks and lasers.
Yesterday — 14 April 2025Main stream

Trump Moves to Put New Tariffs on Computer Chips and Drugs

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Ana Swanson and Tony Romm
15 April 2025 at 05:57
Citing a national security statute, the administration has begun a process to investigate the impact of imported semiconductors and pharmaceuticals.

© Lam Yik Fei for The New York Times

A semiconductor wafer. President Trump has argued that tariffs on chips will force companies to relocate their factories to the United States.

With Trump’s Tariffs, Europe Fears a Flood of Cheap Goods From China

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Michael D. Shear and Jeanna Smialek
14 April 2025 at 21:31
President Trump’s tariffs on China could lead to a hazardous scenario for European countries: the dumping of artificially cheap products that could undermine local industries.

© Qilai Shen for The New York Times

New cars in Guangzhou, China, this month. With China facing an extraordinary wall of tariffs thanks to President Trump, Europe is bracing for an influx of diverted goods.
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