The US Senate on Wednesday passed a House bill to expand paid sick leave, enhance unemployment insurance, and ensure free testing in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
The US trade deficits became large around the late 1990s, and then they started to get smaller around 2005, while China's trade surpluses were small around the late 1990s and didn't start to get significant until 2005, he explained.
The US military said it had shifted about 300 service members from Texas and Arizona to California in recent days.
The USMCA, signed by leaders of the three countries on Nov 30 in Argentina, still needs to be ratified by lawmakers of the three countries before going into effect. The deal faces a tough road ahead in a split Congress.
The UK is a world leader in offshore wind, with a total of 5.3 GWs of installed offshore wind capacity, which is more than one third of the global total of 14.4 GWs. Wind contributed 15 percent of the UK's energy mix in 2017.
The UK-based index provider FTSE Russell, which is owned by the London Stock Exchange Group, said on Friday that it will remove shares of eight Chinese companies from certain products. As the index compiler explained, the latest action is mainly based on feedback from index subscribers and other stakeholders after the US government said on Thursday that it was restricting the purchase of shares of some Chinese companies that are listed in the US, due to their alleged military connections.
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The UK has now become a top destination for Chinese investment. So far, billion of Chinese nonfinancial investment has made its way into a wide range of sectors in the UK. The Hinkley Point C project, a deal inked during Xi's visit, becomes the first-ever China-backed nuclear power plant constructed in a developed economy and is progressing well in southwestern England. And the country pub in rural Buckinghamshire has witnessed busloads of Chinese tourists.
The United Kingdom is currently conducting a joint trade and investment review with China as both sides are keen to deepen business ties, a senior British trade official said.
The United States' planned withdrawal from the World Health Organization is a "senseless", "awful decision" that would cause an enormous disruption during an unprecedented crisis which calls for multilateralism, health experts and politicians said.
The US House Aviation Subcommittee are meeting Wednesday to review the status of the Boeing 737 MAX jet amid reports that senior officials at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) did not participate in or review the airplane's flight-control system, now believed to be at least partially responsible for two fatal crashes.