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Imported nuts from the United States are displayed for sale at a supermarket in Beijing, Monday, April 2, 2018. China raised import duties on U.S. pork, fruit and other products Monday in an escalating tariff dispute with President Donald Trump that companies worry might depress global commerce. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

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China raises tariffs on US pork, fruit in trade dispute

by Joe McDonald AP Business WriterApril 2, 2018

In this Saturday, March 3, 2018, file photo, Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the opening session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in Beijing's Great Hall of the People. With China's rubber-stamp parliament voting to allow President Xi Jinping to stay in power indefinitely, recent history offers sobering lessons to the country's ruling Communist Party. For millennia, one-man rule for life was standard under kings and emperors, but from Zimbabwe to Iraq and North Korea, modern autocrats often blunder into economic stagnation, political dysfunction and war.

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China’s Xi joins Russia, Zimbabwe in global autocrat club

by Joe McDonald Associated PressMarch 11, 2018

At left, a Pakistani police officer stands guard at the site of Pakistan China Silk Road in Haripur, Pakistan. At right, work is in progress at a new international trade route near Havalian in Pakistan. From Pakistan to Tanzania to Hungary, projects under Chinese President Xi Jinping's signature "Belt and Road Initiative" are being canceled, renegotiated or delayed due to disputes about costs or complaints host countries get too little out of projects built by Chinese companies and financed by loans from Beijing that must be repaid.

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China’s modern Silk Road hits political, financial hurdles

by Joe McDonald Associated Press, Munir Ahmed Associated Press, and Sylivester Domasa Associated PressJanuary 12, 2018

FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2016 file photo, Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, center left, and Army Chief Gen. Raheel Sharif, fourth right, pray near Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Sun Weidong, center after inaugurating a new international trade route during a ceremony at the Gwadar port which links to China's western region, west of Karachi, Pakistan. China's new Silk Road initiative is ramping up as President Donald Trump focuses on domestic issues, downplaying foreign affairs. (AP Photo/Muhammad Yousuf, File)

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‘Silk Road’ plan stirs unease over China’s strategic goals

by Joe McDonald Associated Press, Munir Ahmed Associated Press, and Gillian Wong Associated PressMay 11, 2017

In this photo taken Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, a woman walks past lunar new year themed advertisements in Beijing, China. China's economic growth ticked up in the final quarter of 2016 but its full-year performance was the weakest in three decades as it heads into a potential trade battle with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China’s growth in 2016 slumps as Trump trade struggle looms

by Joe McDonald Associated PressJanuary 20, 2017

U.S. President Barack Obama arrives at the Hangzhou Exhibition Center to attend the G20 Summit, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016 in Hangzhou, China. (Etienne Oliveau/Pool Photo via AP)

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Economic summit opens amid trade disputes

by Joe McDonald Associated PressSeptember 4, 2016

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry gestures as he delivers an opening speech for the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogues and the U.S.-China High-Level Consultation on People-to-People Exchange at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, Monday, June 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

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US presses China on steel glut, South China Sea

by Joe McDonald Associated Press, and Bradley Klapper Associated PressJune 6, 2016