BitGou: Friday Morning Briefing: Trump slaps new tariffs on Chinese technology

2018年6月15日星期五

Friday Morning Briefing: Trump slaps new tariffs on Chinese technology

Highlights

Trump announced that the United States will implement a 25 percent tariff on $50 billion of goods from China related to intellectual property and technology, and pledged to impose further levies if the Asian nation takes retaliatory measures.

Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort is set to ask a federal judge not to revoke his bail and send him to jail pending trial after Special Counsel Robert Mueller filed new charges of witness tampering last week.

Trump approved federal emergency housing aid and other relief for victims of the six-week-old Kilauea Volcano eruption on Hawaii’s Big Island, where hundreds of homes have been destroyed, state officials said.

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Pakistani Taliban leader Mullah Fazlullah has been killed in a U.S.-Afghan air strike in Afghanistan, a senior Afghan Defence Ministry official said, a killing likely to ease tension between the United States and Pakistan.

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