| | | President Donald Trump is considering an executive order in the new year to declare a national emergency that would bar U.S. companies from using telecommunications equipment made by China’s Huawei and ZTE, three sources familiar with the situation told Reuters. | | | | | | |
| China and the United States have made plans for face-to-face consultations over trade in January, the Chinese commerce ministry said, as the world’s two biggest economies advanced efforts to resolve a months-long trade war. | | |
| China has proposed a ban on forced technology transfer and illegal government “interference” in foreign business operations, practices that have come under the spotlight in a trade dispute with the United States. | | |
| Special Report: As one of the top private landlords on U.S. Army bases, real estate magnate John Picerne has secured iron-clad assurances of profit. His company stands to earn $1 billion in fees, Reuters found, while some of his warrior-tenants clamor for repairs in unsafe base housing. Read the investigation. | | | | | | |
| A partial U.S. government shutdown was widely expected to continue after Congress reconvenes, with lawmakers split over President Donald Trump’s demand for $5 billion in taxpayer funding for a proposed Mexican border wall. Here is a look at how the partial shutdown of U.S. government could play out. | | |
| World stocks bounced off a near two-year low, lifted by a dramatic Wall Street surge, though a fall in Chinese industrial profits and renewed Italian banking worries offered a sobering reminder of the problems weighing on the world economy. | | |
| Commentary: Will impeachment lead to Donald Trump’s removal from office in 2019? There will be plenty of talk about it, writes political scientist Lincoln Mitchell, but given how unlikely it is that the Republican-controlled Senate will approve, expect Trump to make it through another year as president – and the Democrats to be prevented from passing any meaningful legislation.
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