ABE NEWS | SEPTEMBER 18, 2026 When Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Washington next week, some of the most consequential people accompanying him may not be diplomats. Washington and Beijing are finalizing plans for a potential delegation of major Chinese business leaders to join Xi during his state visit, according to Reuters. Companies under…
ABE NEWS | September 14, 2026 For years, one of the biggest strategic conversations inside global business could be summarized in three words: Get out of China. Not completely, perhaps. But reduce the dependence. American tariffs made Chinese imports more expensive. The pandemic demonstrated how dangerous it could be to depend heavily on one…
ABE NEWS | September 12, 2026 For years, Washington’s message to China’s auto industry has been remarkably clear: Chinese cars are not welcome in the United States. Tariffs have made imported Chinese electric vehicles prohibitively expensive. National-security rules targeting Chinese software and hardware have created another formidable barrier. Republicans and Democrats have increasingly treated China’s…
ABE NEWS | September 5, 2026 The war between the United States and Iran has entered another dangerous phase. U.S. forces struck three Iranian crude-oil tankers on Saturday after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fired ballistic missiles toward two U.S. Navy warships, according to U.S. Central Command. The American vessels — an aircraft carrier…
ABE NEWS | August 31, 2026 Canada’s escalating trade confrontation with the United States is threatening to hit two companies that are not Canadian and not American particularly hard. They are Japanese. Toyota and Honda have spent decades building enormous manufacturing operations in Ontario, turning Canada into an important production base for some of…
ABE NEWS | August 30, 2026 The United States and Iran have exchanged direct military strikes again, abruptly ending weeks of relative restraint and threatening to push the Middle East back into another dangerous phase of a conflict that has already shaken global energy markets and disrupted one of the world’s most important shipping…
ABE NEWS | August 29, 2026 The United States is making an extraordinary move into Venezuela’s vast oil industry. President Donald Trump says Washington, working with Venezuela’s interim government and private companies, has secured majority control over more than 65 billion barrels of proven Venezuelan oil reserves — an amount equivalent to roughly one-fifth…
ABE NEWS | August 28, 2026 Canada’s economy has delivered a surprisingly powerful comeback. After months of weak growth, recession fears and mounting pressure from its trade confrontation with the United States, the Canadian economy expanded at an annualized rate of 3.3% in the second quarter of 2026, its strongest pace of growth since…
ABE NEWS | August 27, 2026 One of North America’s five Great Lakes has suddenly become the latest battleground in the deteriorating relationship between the United States and Canada. U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing the American federal government to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America,” turning what had been…
ABE NEWS | TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2026 Canada has officially answered Washington’s latest tariffs, and the response marks another serious deterioration in one of the world’s largest and most deeply integrated trading relationships. The federal government announced Tuesday that it will impose new retaliatory tariffs on C$27.6 billion worth of goods imported from the…
