by Jinman Li | Jul 25, 2018 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON – Warning of the “harm and damage being done right now” to U.S. businesses by escalating trade disputes, Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson urged the Trump Administration to stay focussed on China, rather than America’s allies. “The real problem...
by Minghe Hu & Jinman Li | Jul 19, 2018 | Business & Tech, Topics
WASHINGTON – Some businesses want to use blockchain technologies so they can have a more secure and convenient transaction environment, but lack of a uniform standard is a roadblock that the federal government could solve, some business leaders told the Congressional...
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by Charlene Zhang | Jul 19, 2018 | Business & Tech, National Security, Topics
WASHINGTON – China’s systematic technology transfers through industrial espionage, state-sponsored theft and infiltrating academia are acts of war and should be combated aggressively, experts and members of Congress said Thursday. “We need to quit talking about...
by Jinman Li | Jul 19, 2018 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — When Manu Smadja and his partner founded financial technology startup Mpower Financing in 2014, the online lender was only licensed to operate in Washington, D.C., New York and Massachusetts. Like many other nonbank loan originators that aspire to...
by Yanchun (Roxanne) Liu | Jul 19, 2018 | Business & Tech, Health
WASHINGTON — Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb Wednesday blamed pharmaceutical companies for manipulating rebates to stymie competition, which blocks patients’ access to affordable copycat drugs and costs them billions in higher-cost...
by Giulia Petroni | Jul 18, 2018 | Business & Tech, Featured
WASHINGTON – The European Union will impose import tariff quotas of 25% on a number of steel products Thursday to protect the European market from the effects of the U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum, the European Commission announced Wednesday. The provisional...
