Beijing has a history of warning Washington about the safety of its Treasury holdings. This time it may have reasons to stay silent, at least publicly.

For months, more than a dozen Hill Republicans have been sounding the alarm about the steep Medicaid cuts in President Donald Trump’s sprawling agenda package, which is now just hours away from becoming law.

NEW YORK, July 3 (Reuters) - The United States has lifted restrictions on exports to China for chip design software developers and ethane producers, a further sign of de-escalating U.S.-Sino trade tensions including concessions from Beijing over rare earths.

The United States lifted export restrictions on exports of chip design software to China, a trio of chip design software companies said.

The Trump administration has rescinded some restrictions on the export of chip-design software to China, just weeks after putting the limitations in place. Software firms Synopsys and Cadence and the software arm of Siemens said they had recently received letters from the Bureau of Industry and Science notifying them that the administration was lifting