U.S. pushes for Ukraine aid, united front against China’s trade practices at G7 finance meeting


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Open this photo in gallery: U.S. Treasure Secretary Janet Yellen speaks during a meeting at the Treasury Department, in Washington, on April 19.Jacquelyn Martin/The Associated Press The U.S. sought to build support for squeezing more money for Ukraine out of frozen Russian assets and for uniting against China’s trade practices as finance ministers from the Group of Seven rich democracies opened a two-day meeting on Friday on the shores of northern Italy’s scenic Lago Maggiore. U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is pushing at the meeting in Stresa for “more ambitious options” to unlock money from some $260-billion in Russian central...