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China eyes easing foreign investment rules ahead of US trade talks
Jan 29, 2019 (AFP)
Washington and other Western powers have been clamouring for better access to Chinese markets and complained about steep government subsidies to local companies...
WTO to probe Trump's China tariffs
Jan 28, 2019 (AFP)
The WTO's Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) has agreed to establish an expert panel to review US President Donald Trump's decision to hit China with tariffs on a qu...
Trump to meet Chinese vice premier in trade talks
Jan 28, 2019 (AFP)
Chinese Vice Premier Liu He is leading a delegation of 30 officials to Washington for talks Wednesday and Thursday as the pressure mounts on both sides to reach...
Businesses struggle as cracks appear in China's economy
Jan 27, 2019 (AFP)
The world's second-largest economy is losing steam, hitting its slowest growth in almost three decades last year, and flagging further in recent months. While g...
US, China resume high-stakes poker in trade talks
Jan 27, 2019 (AFP)
Beijing's trade envoy, Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, will lead a 30-person delegation at the invitation of US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Trade Represe...
Malaysia scraps multi-billion dollar China-backed project
Jan 26, 2019 (AFP)
Malaysia has in recent months suspended several major projects signed under the country's previous scandal-plagued regime, in a bid to cut the country's massive...
US, China 'miles and miles' from resolving trade conflict: US official
Jan 24, 2019 (AFP)
A high-level Chinese delegation is due in Washington next week for talks to resolve the dispute by March 1, when US duty rates on Chinese imports are due to ris...
US industries plead for end to US metals tariffs
Jan 23, 2019 (AFP)
In addition to increased costs for any company importing metal products or components, many other industries are suffering from the retaliation imposed by count...
China, Europe follow Brazil's Bolsonaro onto Davos stage
Jan 23, 2019 (AFP)
Top billing at the World Economic Forum will go to Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan, a key member of the communist leadership in Beijing who is tasked with ne...
US doing 'very well' in China trade talks: Trump
Jan 23, 2019 (AFP)
China "wants to make a deal," he said at the White House. "We're doing very well in the negotiations." Data showing China's economy grew at its weakest pace in ...
China to pass US in retail sales this year: forecast
Jan 23, 2019 (AFP)
Retail sales in China are expected to hit $5.64 trillion, an increase of 7.5 percent over 2018, while Americans are likely to spend $5.53 trillion, a 3.3 percen...
White House denies reports of canceled trade meeting
Jan 23, 2019 (AFP)
Chinese Vice Premier Liu He is to meet his US counterparts in Washington next week as the two sides work to resolve their trade disagreements by March 1, when a...
At Davos, China and Germany tout openness as teenager plugs climate fight
Jan 23, 2019 (AFP)
Reactions against a longer-running style of populism also reared up at the annual World Economic Forum (WEF), as Brazil and other regional countries joined the ...
At Davos, China slowdown is 'no disaster'
Jan 22, 2019 (AFP)
"China is slowing down but it's not going to be a disaster," said Fang Xinghai, vice-chairman of China's Securities Regulatory Commission, a key government watc...
Far-right Bolsonaro sells 'new Brazil' to Davos elite
Jan 22, 2019 (AFP)
The new leader of the region's biggest economy gave the keynote address at this year's World Economic Forum, where warnings are mounting of the dangers of a gro...
China's economy grew at slowest pace in 28 years in 2018
Jan 21, 2019 (AFP)
The 6.6 percent growth comes in above the official target of around 6.5 percent and matches a forecast by analysts polled by AFP, but is down from the 6.8 perce...
Coffee clash brewing in China: startup Luckin takes on Starbucks
Jan 20, 2019 (AFP)
The Chinese upstart is burning through millions of dollars to lure customers with steep discounts, challenging Starbucks' dominance by targeting office workers ...
No breakthrough in US-China trade talks: Trump adviser
Jan 19, 2019 (AFP)
"We've made some progress with China in the deputy's meeting in Beijing," Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council, told Fox Business. But he add...
Canada pours cold water on free trade with China
Jan 18, 2019 (AFP)
Ambassador John McCallum, who returned to Canada to brief lawmakers on the row, told reporters that Canadian businesses want to press on with growing the trade ...
China growth hit slowest pace in decades in 2018: AFP survey
Jan 18, 2019 (AFP)
And in a sign of the battle Beijing faces in getting things back on track, the survey of 13 economists also forecast expansion in the last three months to be at...
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