- Aggressive step in an effort to reduce $337bn US trade deficit
- Move comes at a sensitive time in US-China relations
The White House has taken aggressive new steps in its effort to reduce a $337bn trade deficit with China, announcing that it will impose a 25% tariff on $50bn of Chinese goods containing “industrially significant technology”.
Related: Ivanka Trump won China trademarks days before her father's reversal on ZTE
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The White House spokeswoman chokes back tears after a student reporter asks her about the Trump administration's efforts to keep children safe from school shootings. A visibly emotional Sarah Sanders says: 'I think that as a kid, and certainly as a parent, there is nothing that could be more terrifying for a kid to go to school and not feel safe.' She says President Donald Trump's school safety commission plans to meet this week to discuss the issue. Benje Choucroun, who asked the question, is a student at Marin Country day school in California
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Dershowitz: My lib friends think I'm a traitor
Harvard professor emeritus - and lifelong Democrat and Clinton supporter - Alan Dershowitz says his friends have turned their backs on him for defending Trump and not believing the Russia collusion theories. #Tucker
