China has appointed a new trade negotiator in the midst of its tariff fight with the United States as the world’s two largest economies steadily increase tariffs on each other’s goods.

China is facing a double whammy: corrosive deflation and tariffs that threaten to block trade. Chinese workers will be the biggest casualties.

By Ethan Wang, Laurie Chen and Eduardo Baptista BEIJING (Reuters) -China on Wednesday unexpectedly appointed a new trade negotiator key in any talks to resolve the escalating tariff war with the United States,

China's commerce ministry on Thursday urged the United States to stop putting "extreme pressure" on the world's second-largest economy and demanded respect in any trade talks, but the two sides remained at an impasse over who should start those talks.

US President Donald Trump said the ball was in China’s court. And now we have a better understanding of what it’ll take to get Beijing to the table. China is willing to agree to trade talks under the right terms,

Only some Chinese goods, such as electric cars and syringes, are subject to a 245% duty. This is not a new, wide-ranging US tariff imposed on China, the White House says. Only some Chinese goods, such as electric cars and syringes,