U.S. authorities are secretly tracking shipments of advanced AI chips from manufacturers such as Dell, Super Micro, Nvidia, and AMD to prevent their illegal diversion to China.
The words national emergency are not a magic spell that presidents can utter to unlock unlimited legislative powers for themselves.
The Trump administration will allow Nvidia and AMD to sell chips in the Chinese market—in exchange for 15 percent of their revenue.
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"I walked the entire length of the New York subway system above ground. I've always been into walking," says the author of the Chris Arnade Walks the World newsletter.
Canada accounts for a tiny percentage of fentanyl smuggling, which cannot be stopped by trying harder.
As the Dalai Lama turns 90, China prepares to name a rival successor. But the spiritual leader’s soft power has already thwarted Beijing’s efforts to erase Tibet’s identity.
Scenes from a trade war.
The trade deficit is getting bigger, the deals aren't coming, and foreign investment has declined.
The American Enterprise Institute's Hal Brands and investigative journalist Gareth Porter debate the necessity of the Cold War.
The Trump Organization says the phone is domestically manufactured, but its hardware—and a statement from Eric Trump—suggest otherwise.
Triple-digit bilateral tariffs have been brought down to double digits. Negotiations on semiconductors and rare earth elements will continue.
A new comprehensive review finds the negative effects of trade with China have been significantly exaggerated.
Complying with export regulations should build trust between Nvidia and Congress, not erode it.
When anyone can have an air force, superpowers aren't as powerful as they used to be.
"Just go to North Korea for 10 days and you'll know how bad it is," says Charles Ryu.
The debate over free trade should include more than the costs of Trump's tariffs versus the value of cheaper stuff.
The White House calls it "the art of the deal," but a 30 percent tariff on imports from China is economically damaging and constitutionally dubious.
"If this is the end of my American dream," says one small business owner, "I'm going to go down swinging."
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Trump’s tariffs aren’t just bad economics—they’re a rejection of abundance, prosperity, and capitalism itself.
The White House budget plan says the agency's failure to prove it was not complicit in a possible lab leak shows it's "too big and unfocused."
Trump's comment about how "dolls" will "cost a couple of bucks more" is the latest in a long trend of nationalist conservatives disparaging affordable stuff.
May Day should be a day to honor victims of an ideology that took tens of millions of lives. But we should also be open to alternative dates if they can attract broad enough support.
A sharp decline in ocean freight from China during April is a sign of the supply chain issues that will begin hitting in May.
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Scenes from a trade war.
Goldman Sachs estimates that the tariffs will create about 100,000 manufacturing jobs while destroying 500,000 others. In Pennsylvania, it's already starting.
The Danger Zone co-author joins the show to discuss China's peaking power, and why that actually makes them more dangerous.
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The stock market may look irrational, but it's repricing risk faster than ever. Sometimes, that's a feature, not a bug.
"I said now that they're banning it, I want to join, just because they're telling me I can't," the Kentucky senator tells Reason.
Daniel Hannan argues that protectionism never works, but that's a lesson that politicians and voters seemingly have to relearn repeatedly.
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There were no deals. There were no wins. There was no plan.
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The former editor in chief of the South China Morning Post discusses his book on Jimmy Lai, who is currently on trial in Hong Kong for having the audacity to stand up to the government.
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A $25 board game may soon hit the shelves with a $40 price tag because of tariffs.
Although the president's pride in his negotiation skills could save us, it is hard to see what sort of deal would address his grievance about the consequences of economic freedom.
The lawsuit raises nondelegation and major questions doctrine arguments.
Dynamists, protectionists, hawks, and doves are seeing their policy goals realized in the most bungling and incompetent fashion imaginable.
What tariffs on Singapore, Brazil, and Vietnam can tell us about how Trump misunderstands the value of trade.
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