The US Presidential Commission on Debates said each candidate's microphone at the debate in Nashville, Tennessee, would be silenced to allow the other to make two minutes of opening remarks at the beginning of each 15-minute segment of the debate. Both microphones will be turned on to allow a back-and-forth after that time.
The US has run a trade surplus with Hong Kong for years. The US recorded a trade surplus of .8 billion with Hong Kong in 2018 despite Sino-US trade tensions.
The US also revoked its special preferences for a list of World Trade Organization members, including Brazil, India, Indonesia and South Africa.
The US nuclear-powered Carl Vinson aircraft carrier was approaching the peninsula after participating in the joint war games last month.
The US Treasury in April already banned 38 Russian individuals and entities, including seven business leaders and 17 senior officials, for their alleged "malign activity" around the world.
The US unemployment rate is 3.5 percent, near a 50-year low. President Trump touted the strong economy in his State of the Union address to Congress Tuesday and is expected to highlight strong employment in his re-election bid this year.
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The US is by far the world's biggest spender: It poured 2.8 percent of its gross domestic product into R&D in 2015, when China's spending was 2.1 percent, according to the 2015 UIS Innovation Data Collection, the latest survey released by the UNESCO Institute of Statistics in April.
The US manufacturing purchasing managers index dropped to 49.1 in August, the fifth straight monthly decline, which capped a 35-month expansion cycle and was the lowest since January 2016, according to a report released by the Institute for Supply Management on Tuesday.
The US has now recorded 18,586 deaths and is closing in on the toll of 18,849 dead in Italy, which has seen the most fatalities so far in the global pandemic.
The US Federal Reserve recently cut the interest rates by a quarter-percentage point to buoy the US economy amid a global slowdown and the continuing US-China trade dispute, the first time since 2008 when the subprime mortgage crisis threatened to torpedo the US economy. China's central bank may not necessarily cut rates, as the Chinese economy is in a different situation compared to some developed economies, where low inflation and precarious growth are key concerns. But, there will likely be leeway in China's monetary policy in the following months.