Greatest pressure to ‘come from changes within the US’, Zheng Yongnian says, urging China to expand opening up as a countermeasure.

Donald Trump ’s team has threatened to weaponize Elon Musk against any Republican senators who plan to block the confirmation of his cabinet picks, according to a report. One of the president-elect’s senior advisers warned senators that if they vote against his nominees,

The alliance between Elon Musk and Donald Trump, the world's richest person and the future president of the world's most powerful country, poses the risk of creating a dangerous oligarchy. Their personalities threaten a "tumultuous psychodrama with global ramifications,

In the summer of 2018, when former President Donald Trump launched a trade war with Beijing, the Chinese economy was gaining on the United States, and popular opinion suggested it could soon become the world’s largest.

Reliance on cheap Russian energy along with brutal competition from China has hit the German economy hard, and President-elect Trump's threat of tariffs are creating more uncertainty.