The US government declared Monday that China is manipulating its currency and will engage with the International Monetary Fund to "eliminate the unfair competitive advantage" for Beijing, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement. The US last accused China of currency manipulation in 1994.
The US recorded more than 213,000 new cases Tuesday, and there were 104,600 patients hospitalized with the virus, a record for the third consecutive day, according to the Covid Tracking Project. There have been more than 286,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
The US sanctions are a breach of international trade norms and have caused disruptions to the global industrial and supply chains, he said.
The United States saw its largest trade deficit in nine years in 2017, news that is likely to increase the anxiety of the Trump administration for reasons that many economists disagree with.
The US and Mexico trade about .7 billion in goods daily, according to the US Chamber of Commerce, which said closing the border would be "an unmitigated economic debacle" that would threaten 5 million American jobs.
The US government has flown about 800 people from Hubei province, placing them under 14-day quarantine at US military bases.
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The US government, lawmakers and pundits have generally expressed negative views of Duterte since he took office last June. Some even believe that he would not able to serve the full six-year term.
The US State Department also ridiculed the reports on Thursday.
The USTR said it was adding to the list in response to public comment, when more than 40 people testified at public hearings May 15-16. A hearing on the new list is scheduled for Aug 5.
The US-based Gerontology Research Group says that another Japanese woman, Chiyo Miyako, is now the world's oldest person in its records. Miyako lives south of Tokyo in Kanagawa prefecture, and is due to turn 117 in 10 days.