As Donald Trump’s administration settles into a global trade war — at least momentarily obscuring its war on the federal government and on the limitation of executive power, which continues on many fronts — it’s a good time for a reality check on the political capital he carries into the next turbulent phase of his second presidency.

President Donald Trump said Thursday that the United States was in talks with China on tariffs, adding that he was confident the world's largest economies could make a deal to

While Donald Trump has temporarily paused tariffs on several countries, he decided to go ahead with new levies on Chinese goods that summed together total 145 per cent.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that China has reached out for trade talks. Trump signaled that he is reluctant to impose further tariffs on China because doing so would delay a trade deal. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office,