⅓ cup grapeseed or other neutral oil

Containers ship Hornise sails across the Bosphorus strait, on his way from China’s Jingtang port to Russia’s Novorossiysk port, in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)Though the U.S. and China may want to find a way back to the negotiating table, “this won’t be an easy path to navigate with both countries doubling down and bilateral engagement at a virtual standstill,’’ said former U.S. trade official Wendy Cutler, a vice president at the Asia Society Policy Institute.

China does not appear interested in bargaining, as some other countries have started doing.“If the U.S. truly wants to resolve issues through dialogue and negotiation, it should adopt an attitude of equality, respect and mutual benefit,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said.The Chinese Ministry of Culture and Tourism issued a travel advisory asking its citizens to evaluate the risks of visiting the U.S. as tourists and to exercise caution. The advisory, which came shortly after the announcement of China’s latest tariff hike, cited the deterioration in economic and trade relations as well as the “safety situation” in America.

Boxes of party supplies imported from China are stacked outside a store in the Toy District of Los Angeles, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)Boxes of party supplies imported from China are stacked outside a store in the Toy District of Los Angeles, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Trump has now raised the tariff on Chinese goods five times since taking office in January. The first two hikes of 10% each were met with what analysts described as a measured response from China that left the door open for talks.

But after Trump announced an additional 34% duty on Chinese goods last week, along with tariffs on other countries inbut this time smashes together characters and plot lines from several of the books in a way that is hard to follow even for fans.

It starts as the origin story — a policeman’s body is sewed onto the head of his faithful dog after a bomb blast — and then we get the supervillain Petey the Cat, his adorable clone Li’l Petey, the chief of police and the mayor, the psychokinetic fish Flippy, the 80-Hexotron Droid-Formigon robot, a pushy TV reporter and buildings coming alive. It leans a lot on 2017’s “A Tale of Two Kittens,” the third book in the Dog Man series.The spareness of the graphic novels is gone and we get an interior life for Dog Man, including a sort of weird tangent about his depression over losing his past life. Fans get a look inside his doghouse — who was expecting a piano, a grandfather clock or a gramophone? — and there’s lots of licking and chasing squirrels. Typical humor: A sign at an active volcano that reads: “No lifeguard on duty.”

At the movie’s heart is a story as old as time — good versus evil — and which will Li’l Petey pick. His father, Petey, is a supervillain who needs Prozac — “The world is a horrible place. That’s just reality,” he tells his son — but Dog Man offers a sweet alternative. Will Li’l Petey chose blood over stability? Will love turn Petey to the good side?The filmmakers try to capture some of the anarchic qualities of the comics, like adding “Dun, Dun Dunnn” in large letters on the screen at a dramatic moment, but they’re trying too hard and the humor is restrained. It needs more zany.