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Russia Wages an Oil War Against Saudi Arabia and US Amid Coronavirus Concerns

March 10, 2020March 9, 2020 Michigan Star Staff

Oil prices dropped Monday as Saudi Arabia and Russia haggle over whether to reduce crude production amid fears that coronavirus will hamper air travel and potentially wreck the global economy.

Prices fell into the $30s as the Saudis push for a cut in output to prop up prices, while Russia went the other way, and decided to infuse the market with hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil, according to The Washington Post. Moscow is worried that the U.S. will use shale oil to take advantage if Saudi Arabia ease off production.

U.S. Officials Battle Coronavirus on Multiple Health Care, Economic Fronts Even as Death Toll Reaches Nine

March 4, 2020March 3, 2020 Jason M. Reynolds

The coronavirus death toll in the United States hit nine on Tuesday, even as more areas around the world report infections.

The Michigan Star Adds New Daily Feature: Coronavirus Updates

February 29, 2020 Admin

Even as the coronavirus has claimed its first fatality in the U.S., The Michigan Star is adding a new reference feature to help you keep track of the virus’s spread in the country and around the world.

We are providing a badge using data from Worldometer near the top of the page. The Worldometer badge will always appear near the top of our homepage, just underneath the Top Story link.

Trump Raises Stakes in Fight with Boris Johnson, Says Using Huawei Jeopardizes US Intelligence

February 18, 2020February 18, 2020 Michigan Star Staff

President Donald Trump issued a warning Sunday to countries that use Chinese tech company firm, Huawei.

US Confirms ‘Reduction in Violence’ Negotiated With Afghan Taliban

February 17, 2020 Michigan Star Staff

ISLAMABAD/BRUSSELS — The United States confirmed Thursday it has negotiated a “seven-day reduction in violence” proposal with the Taliban to move toward a political settlement to the war in Afghanistan.

Pompeo Warns US Governors of Risks of Dealing with China

February 10, 2020February 9, 2020 Michigan Star Staff

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is warning American governors of the risks of doing business with China, saying competition with China is happening on a federal, state and local level and it has consequences for U.S. foreign policy and national security.

Commentary: The Most Important Thing About the Trade Deal Is the Deal Itself

January 16, 2020January 15, 2020 Admin

Chinese Vice Premier and Communist Party Politburo member Liu He is in Washington this week to sign a trade agreement with the Trump Administration.

36 Percent of Young Americans Think Other Countries Are Greater Than the US

January 10, 2020January 9, 2020 Admin

Younger Americans are more likely than older adults to think other countries are greater than the United States, poll results show.

Commentary: Americans Will Rally Around Trump on Iran

January 8, 2020January 7, 2020 Admin

The Democrats have stumbled into yet another beartrap in their unanimous objection to President Trump’s order to kill the world’s leading terrorist, Iranian general Qassem Soleimani. The same misdirected solicitude that caused the Washington Post to describe ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, after he was driven to suicide by U.S. special operators, as an “austere cleric” has elevated Soleimani to the status of an Iranian General MacArthur.

South Korea, US Fail to Strike Defense Cost-Sharing Deal

December 8, 2019May 21, 2020 Michigan Star Staff

SEOUL – The United States and South Korea failed to reach a defense cost-sharing agreement after holding a fourth round of talks this week.

Commentary: Demographics and the American Prospect

December 5, 2019December 4, 2019 Michigan Star Staff

In the summer of 2018, journalist Vivian Yee amused herself with the thought that Orange Country, California, was once an agricultural, “conservative (think Richard Nixon and the John Birch Society) and white (very, very white),” slice of America. But “Chinese and Korean immigrants, and Asian-Americans from other states,” she wrote on the eve of the midterm election, “have made Irvine nearly half Asian.”

Ahead of Summit, NATO Agrees to Re-Balance Nations’ Contributions, Slash the U.S. Share

December 2, 2019December 1, 2019 Michigan Star Staff

As Britain prepares for the NATO leaders’ meeting outside London December 3-4, the alliance said Thursday it had agreed to redistribute costs and cut the U.S. contribution to its central budget.

Commentary: Trade in Goods Deficit With China Down $38.5 Billion the First Nine Months of 2019 as Trade Talks Continue

November 16, 2019November 16, 2019 Michigan Star Staff

The U.S. trade in goods deficit with China is down 12.8 percent in the first nine months of 2019, or $38.5 billion, compared to 2018, according to the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Trump, China Reach ‘Phase One’ of Tentative Trade Agreement

October 12, 2019October 11, 2019 Michigan Star Staff

President Donald Trump said he reached “phase one” of a tentative U.S.-China trade deal after meeting with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He Friday.

Commentary: Imagining Chelsea Clinton’s America

October 11, 2019October 10, 2019 Michigan Star Staff

It’s nice to know we have Chelsea Clinton to advise us on the state of America today. And since Chelsea Clinton reliably channels the conventional wisdom of the establishment Left in America, it is useful to wonder what sort of country her children would grow up in, if she could wave a wand and let the Left win every battle for the next 20 years.

Commentary: With a Japan Trade Deal and a Strong U.S. Economy, Where Is the Trade Depression People Predicted?

October 11, 2019October 10, 2019 Michigan Star Staff

Readers will recall that in the 2016 election and since then financial and political analysts were tripping over themselves to predict that if President Donald Trump won and implemented his planned trade agenda, which included tariffs, why, we’d have a global recession perhaps even as bad as the Great Depression.

Top-Level US-China Trade Talks Resume as Irritants Sour Atmosphere

October 11, 2019October 10, 2019 Michigan Star Staff

WASHINGTON – The United States’ and China’s top trade negotiators met on Thursday for the first time since late July to try to find a way out of a 15-month trade war as new irritants between the world’s two largest economies threatened hopes for progress.

State Dept. Says The US And North Korea Will Continue Talks ‘Within The Next Week’

October 2, 2019October 1, 2019 Michigan Star Staff

The United States and North Korea will hold talks “within the next week” after months of silence, the State Department announced Tuesday.

Trump Administration Signs Asylum Deal With El Salvador

September 22, 2019September 21, 2019 Michigan Star Staff

Acting Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan announced that the U.S. has reached an asylum agreement with El Salvador, marking the latest development in the Trump administration’s effort to curb the border crisis.

Commentary: Why Strong Intellectual Property Laws Abroad Require a Strong US Example

September 15, 2019September 15, 2019 Michigan Star Staff

China has failed to respect intellectual property rights for decades, and U.S. businesses have suffered. Thankfully, those companies are getting help from the Trump administration.

Commentary: The Problem With the Push for More College Degrees

September 14, 2019September 13, 2019 Michigan Star Staff

In a 2009 speech, President Barack Obama proclaimed that by 2020, the United States will “once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world.”

Commentary: America Needs Jobs, Not Chinese Imports

September 13, 2019September 13, 2019 Michigan Star Staff

J.P. Morgan estimates that President Trump’s tariffs will cost American families up to $1,000 next year. We have heard this before and we’ll hear it again. But the fact is that tariffs have not yet—nor will they likely—increase the cost of living.

Commentary: On 9/11 Anniversary, Remembering a Red, White, and Blue Nation Is Possible

September 11, 2019May 21, 2020 Michigan Star Staff

Eighteen years ago, in the wake of the terrorist assaults on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, I wrote about the tidal wave of patriotism that swept across America.

Commentary: Delaying Tariffs Is Not the Answer to China’s Trade Practices

September 8, 2019September 7, 2019 Michigan Star Staff

For the past two years, President Donald Trump has argued that China was paying the cost of the trade war. Following a delay in some of the tariffs from the latest round in the dispute with China, however, the president has acknowledged for the first time that tariffs have an impact on American families.

US, China to Hold High-Level Trade Talks in October

September 6, 2019September 6, 2019 Michigan Star Staff

U.S. and Chinese envoys are to resume high-level trade talks next month, China’s Commerce Ministry said Thursday, days after the two sides announced another round of tariffs targeting each other’s exports.

Trump Warns China Against Delay in Reaching Trade Pact

September 4, 2019September 4, 2019 Michigan Star Staff

U.S. President Donald Trump warned China on Tuesday against delays in reaching a new trade agreement in hopes he is defeated for re-election in 2020, saying that if he wins he will be “MUCH TOUGHER” in setting the terms of a deal.

Report: African Migrants Stuck in Mexico Fight Authorities, Demand Passage to US

September 1, 2019September 1, 2019 Michigan Star Staff

Thousands of African migrants held up in a southern Mexican city reportedly formed an official organization, criticizing their treatment by immigration authorities and demanding passage into the United States.

Commentary: Reasons Why America Should Question Its Trade Relationship with China

August 30, 2019August 29, 2019 Michigan Star Staff

China is alleged to harvest the organs of thousands of political dissidents it keeps in concentration camps, it threatens Hong Kong and Taiwan daily, it appears to be funding and assisting the North Korean nuclear missile program and is using the hundreds of billions of dollars of trade deficits to build a first-rate navy to defeat the U.S. as every year’s trade deficit pays for more than two years of China’s military spending.

Trump Official: US Ready to Seal Trade Deal with Britain Post-Brexit

August 15, 2019August 15, 2019 Michigan Star Staff

White House enthusiasm for a trade deal with the United Kingdom is palpable.

Kim Jong Un Calls Recent Missile Tests a ‘Warning’ For the US, South Korea

August 8, 2019August 8, 2019 Michigan Star Staff

North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un said Wednesday that the country’s ballistic missile test Tuesday was a “warning” to both South Korea and the United States.

Trump Puts More Sanctions on Russia Triggered By Alleged Chemical Weapons Use on Ex-Spy

August 3, 2019August 3, 2019 Michigan Star Staff

President Donald Trump put more sanctions on Russia via executive order Thursday as required by law in response to Russia’s use of chemical weapons in a 2018 attack on an ex-spy in the U.S., two U.S. officials said.

Commentary: Why Trump Is Right to Pull Out of Nuclear Treaty With Russia

August 3, 2019August 3, 2019 Michigan Star Staff

The United States is withdrawing this week from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, a 31-year-old agreement with Russia. The decision to withdraw is the right move.

Trump Warns China to Negotiate Trade Deal Now Rather Than Later

July 31, 2019July 31, 2019 Michigan Star Staff

As U.S.-China trade talks are set to begin, U.S. President Donald Trump is warning China against negotiating a deal after the 2020 U.S. presidential election — declaring a delayed agreement would be less attractive than a deal reached in the near term.

Commentary: Ilhan Omar Blames America for Illegal Immigration

July 26, 2019July 26, 2019 Michigan Star Staff

Radical Somali-American and left-wing Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) argues that U.S. foreign policy is the cause of the global refugee crisis. Without question, excessive aggression from the United States in Latin America and the Middle East has exacerbated the pre-existing pathologies that pervade their political, social, and economic systems.

US Shot Down Iranian Drone, Trump Says

July 20, 2019July 20, 2019 Admin

President Donald Trump said a U.S. warship shot down an Iranian drone Thursday that was threatening the ship and its crew in the Strait of Hormuz. Trump told reporters at a White House event that the drone came within 900 meters of the USS Boxer and ignored “multiple calls…

Trump to Discuss Immigration with Guatemalan President at White House on Monday

July 14, 2019July 20, 2019 Admin

by Reuters WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump will meet with Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales at the White House on Monday for talks on immigration and security, the White House said on Friday. Government sources from both countries have said Morales may sign an agreement with Trump on Monday…

Commentary: What Americans Often Forget

July 5, 2019 Admin

by Janet Beihoffer Our nation’s birthday is approaching once again, along with the celebrations which have accompanied the holiday for so many years. In recent years, however, Independence Day celebrations are often overshadowed by bickering over race or class. With this in mind, I’d like to share a story…

Commentary: What Americans Often Forget

July 5, 2019July 4, 2019 Admin

Red, White but Rarely Blue – the Science of Fireworks Colors, Explained

July 5, 2019July 4, 2019 Admin

by Paul E. Smith In the earliest days of the United States, John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail about the celebration of independence, “It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to…

Commentary: Remembering the Real Revolution of July Fourth

July 4, 2019 Admin

by Patrick Garry The words are engrained in our national consciousness: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are … endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” These inspirational and linguistically beautiful words of…

Commentary: Remembering the Real Revolution of July Fourth

July 4, 2019July 3, 2019 Admin

Commentary: Reigniting the Flame of Liberty this Independence Day

July 4, 2019July 3, 2019 Admin

by Rick Manning July 1, 2, 3 and 4 are perhaps the four most consequential dates in American history. The second President of the United States and one of the authors and signers of the Declaration of Independence, John Adams believed that July 2 would be known as our…

Steve Rogers Commentary: ‘A Salute to America’ Is the Embodiment of President Trump’s Love of Our Military, Over the Establishment’s Protests

July 3, 2019July 2, 2019 Admin

by Steve Rogers It’s funny how the same people who are furious with President Trump for inviting our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines to be honored on the National Mall this Independence Day seem to be just as upset that he didn’t send our troops into harm’s way in…

US Trade Deficit Hits 8-Month Low on Weak Chinese Imports

April 18, 2019 Michigan Star Staff

The U.S. trade deficit fell to an eight-month low in February as imports from China plunged, providing a boost to President Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda and economic growth in the first quarter. The surprise second straight monthly narrowing in the trade gap reported by the Commerce Department on Wednesday…