China has threatened retaliation if President Donald Trump goes ahead with planned tariff hikes on Chinese goods.
Trump stepped up a dispute over Beijing’s trade surplus and technology ambitions by announcing 10{fbcf2a5c42fe71624047a18c73673849799bd5d53cdb5d8ca16f4833367ca63d} tariffs effective Sept. 1 on $300 billion of Chinese imports.
The Commerce Ministry said Beijing would be forced to take unspecified ‘necessary countermeasures.’
The ministry said Trump violated an agreement with President Xi Jinping in June to revive negotiations.
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The United States plans to test a new missile in coming weeks that would have been prohibited under a landmark, 32-year-old arms control treaty that the U.S. and Russia ripped up on Friday.
Washington and Moscow walked out of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty that President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed in 1987, raising fears of a new arms race.
The U.S. blamed Moscow for the death of the treaty.
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Ahead of the start of the new school year, the Austin school district has decided to delay making decision about school closures.
The district says it has been inundated with so much community feedback that the school board needs more time to process it all.
Revised recommendations will be presented on September 9.
Specific schools had been expected to be identified by this month, with a final vote in October.
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Austin police have officially increased their presence in downtown following four shootings in less than three weeks, plus an officer-involved shooting on Wednesday.
From Thursday through Sunday, every week, APD will be staffed at 100-percent in downtown until the level of increasing violence begins to decline.
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the Austin City Council will look at a proposal next week to install ten new drinking fountains in an area near the ARCH bordered by North Lamar, I-35, 15th Street, and Lady Bird Lake.
It’s an idea that council member Kathie Tovo tells KVUE has no price tag yet.
“We’ll need to see when the manager comes back with his recommendations how expensive that would be, she says. “And sometimes the installation isn’t the biggest cost, it’s really a commitment to maintaining it.”
