At the base of the mainmast, full beneath the doubloon and the flame, the parsee was kneeling in Ahab's front, but with his head bowed away from him; while near by, from the arched and overhanging rigging, where they had just been engaged securing a spar, a number of the seamen, arrested by the glare, now cohered together, and hung pendulous, like a knot of numbed wasps from a drooping, orchard twig.
China is now Indiaâs top trading partnerâand one of its least liked. Some of China's mountain of imports into India. India and Chinaâtwo massive, neighboring Asian emerging economies, each home to over a billion peopleâare on the way to forming one of the worldâs largest trade relationships.
The trade deficit figures could strengthen the resolve of Mr. Trumpâs trade advisers, including Mr. Navarro and Robert Lighthizer, the United States trade representative, who want the United States to take a more aggressive stance on trade and are urging tougher action on trading partners that export more to the United States than they import, like China, Mexico and South Korea.