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Flood-postponed EU-Japan summit moved to Tokyo
Jul 09, 2018 (AFP)
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called off the trip this week to Belgium and three other countries as the death toll from flooding and landslides caused by r...
China eyes eastern Europe investment as US trade war sizzles
Jul 07, 2018 (AFP)
Road and rail projects funded by China will be high on the agenda at the summit, which has raised concerns in Brussels and richer Western European countries abo...
US, China fire first shots in 'largest trade war in economic history'
Jul 06, 2018 (AFP)
At the stroke of midnight Washington time, the US pulled the trigger on 25-percent duties on about $34 billion in Chinese machinery, electronics and high-tech e...
China counterpunches against US in growing trade war
Jul 06, 2018 (AFP)
Late Friday, China announced it was expanding its existing complaint against the United States at the World Trade Organization, hours after the countries slappe...
Malaysia suspends multi-billion dollar China-backed deals
Jul 05, 2018 (AFP)
The deals were among several Beijing-backed projects signed by scandal-hit Najib, who was unseated by his former mentor Mahathir Mohamad in elections last May. ...
China pledges more 'selfless' loans to Sri Lanka
Jul 05, 2018 (AFP)
Dismissing "Western media" claims of a "debt trap", China's embassy in Colombo also rejected a recent New York Times report about alleged corruption in Chinese ...
EU 'possibly as bad as China' on trade: Trump
Jul 01, 2018 (AFP)
"The European Union is possibly as bad as China, only smaller," Trump said on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" program. "They send a Mercedes in, we can't sen...
manufacturing activity slows in June
Jun 30, 2018 (AFP)
The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), a key gauge of factory conditions, came in at 51.5 in June, decelerating from 51.9 in May, the National Bureau of Statisti...
French police seize 10 Chinese-owned vineyards in fraud inquiry
Jun 29, 2018 (AFP)
Haichang Group, based in the northeastern Chinese port city of Dalian, is the biggest of numerous Chinese investors which have bought into one of France's most ...
Texas presses Trump on aluminum, steel tariffs
Jun 29, 2018 (UPI)
"To maintain our energy dominance and continue meeting the energy needs of our nation and beyond, we need to be able to move unprecedented volumes of oil and na...
US trade war upends China's economic balancing act
Jun 29, 2018 (AFP)
With the Trump administration preparing to roll out tariffs on some $34 billion of Chinese imports next week, the Shanghai Stock Exchange is taking a nosedive -...
China unveils easing of investment curbs as trade war looms
Jun 29, 2018 (AFP)
The new "negative list" outlines key reforms in the financial sector while dropping restrictions in areas including the car industry, agriculture, infrastructur...
Trump favors tougher investment oversight but stops short of targeting China
Jun 28, 2018 (AFP)
Following a report that raised "very serious issues" on China's trade and investment practices, Trump decided a plan in Congress to enhance the powers of the so...
Trump hails 'America First' at Wisconsin plant site
Jun 28, 2018 (AFP)
"Moments ago we broke ground on a plant that will provide jobs for much more than 13,000 Wisconsin workers," he said at a ceremony celebrating the inauguration ...
China defends its post-WTO business record
Jun 28, 2018 (AFP)
Hitting back at critics like US President Donald Trump, China published a white paper titled "China and the World Trade Organization" outlining reforms Beijing ...
Mnuchin rebuts reports on new China investment restrictions
Jun 26, 2018 (AFP)
The reports were widely cited Monday as helping to spark a global stocks selloff, with investors increasingly gloomy about the prospects of de-escalation in the...
US restrictions on Chinese investment next front in trade dispute
Jun 25, 2018 (AFP)
That could open US firms like Apple and General Motors up to new forms of retaliation from China and experts worry it also marks another step in government inte...
EU, China vow to uphold global trade order despite divisions
Jun 25, 2018 (AFP)
Officials on both sides pledged to strengthen the World Trade Organization, announcing a plan to cooperate on updating the body which has come under blistering ...
China's central bank to cut reserve requirements
Jun 24, 2018 (AFP)
The move to cut the amount of cash banks must hold in reserve will free up a combined 700 billion yuan ($108 billion) in funding at commercial banks and the lar...
China launches $200 mn mining venture with largest Tajik smelter
Jun 24, 2018 (AFP)
On Sunday a groundbreaking ceremony was held for a mine that is expected to produce its first gold and antimony in 2020. The venture between Tajikistan's state-...
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