NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2018 (Xinhua) — File photo taken on Aug. 16, 2017 shows U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer (L), Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland (C) and Mexican Economic Minister Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal attend the first round of renegotiations on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in Washington D.C., the United States. The United States, Canada and Mexico on Wednesday kicked off the first round of renegotiations on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) amid widespread uncertainty and anxiety over the future of the decades-old trilateral trade deal.
NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2018 (Xinhua) — File photo taken on Feb. 28, 2017 shows U.S. President Donald Trump (C) addressing the joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., the United States. U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday night rolled out his “America First” agenda for his four-year presidency in his first speech at a joint session of Congress since inauguration.
NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2018 (Xinhua) — File photo taken on Dec. 20, 2017 shows U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at an event celebrating the passage of the tax bill on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington D.C., the United States. The U.S. Congress on Wednesday finally passed the Republican bill to overhaul the U.S. tax code over three decades, sending it to President Donald Trump’s desk for signature, amid concerns that the change would widen income inequality and swell public debt.
NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2018 (Xinhua) — The handout file photo provided by the U.S. Navy and taken on April 7, 2017 shows U.S. navy guided-missile destroyer USS Porter fires a tomahawk land attack missile in the Mediterranean Sea. A total of 59 Tomahawk Land Attack missiles were launched from the destroyers USS Porter and USS Ross in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea at about 8:40 p.m. EDT on April 6 (4:40 a.m. on Friday in Syria), and Syrian aircraft, hardened aircraft shelters, fuel points, air defense systems, and radars were targeted, according to a Pentagon statement.
NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2018 (Xinhua) — File photo taken on Nov. 2, 2017 shows U.S. President Donald Trump (R) and Federal Reserve Governor Jerome Powell attending a nomination ceremony at the rose garden of White House in Washington D.C., the United States. Trump picked Thursday Federal Reserve Governor Jerome Powell as next Federal Reserve chair.
NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2018 (Xinhua) — File photo taken on Jan. 29, 2017 shows demonstrators participate in a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order temporarily barring all refugees and seven Mideast and North African countries’ citizens from entry into the U.S. in front of the White House in Washington D.C., the Unite States. Protesters rallied in front of the White House on Sunday while demonstrations continued across more than 30 American airports after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order temporarily barring all refugees and seven Mideast and North African countries’ citizens from entry into the United States.Jan. 20, 2018 reaches one-year mark for Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States. One year into U.S. President Donald Trump’s presidency, the uncertainties and anxieties over his unconventional playbook appear to have not diminished. As he seeks to implement his campaign promises, which seem controversial and even unacceptable to many, rifts, feuds and controversies dogged the year and 2018 would probably not be any different. (Xinhua/Yin Bogu/IANS)