Xi urges lifting trade barriers, mentions US support in WWII

After the phone call between US President Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, a Chinese readout of the call struck a measured tone, with Xi urging Trump to avoid restrictive trade measures and to not undermine progress made in earlier talks aimed at easing tensions between their economies.On TikTok, the readout said only that […]

Trump tees off with tariff bogey amid meltdown in US markets

TOI Correspondent from Washington: Pilloried for playing golf while the stock market burned, MAGA supremo Donald Trump tee-d off with claims of an “economic revolution” that has “already” brought in more than $5 trillion investment into the United States.The US President’s tall talk came despite America’s top 500 companies bleeding almost the same amount, $5 […]

Dairy of an Agro phile: How now, holy cow?

The TOI Correspondent from Washington: US President Donald Trump unveiled a laundry list of his administration’s grievances about “Tariff King” New Delhi’s “trade barriers,” but few gripes were more tone deaf than ones against India’s agriculture and dairy sector, the life blood of rural India that employs nearly 50 per cent of the country’s workforce. […]