TRADE WARS

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China's trade surplus with US narrows in January
Feb 14, 2019 (AFP)
China's exports across the Pacific fell more than 2 percent in January from a year earlier, data from the customs administration showed, after shrinking in Dece...
Hong Kong's super rich took a $20 bn beating in 2018: Forbes
Feb 14, 2019 (AFP)
The southern Chinese financial hub boasts entrenched income inequality with one of the highest concentrations of billionaires in the world. But the ultra-wealth...
China's Xi to meet top US trade officials: report
Feb 13, 2019 (AFP)
Xi will meet on Friday with officials including US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who are in the capital for crun...
Japan's Toshiba cuts profit outlook again
Feb 13, 2019 (AFP)
The fresh downgrade comes as the firm undergoes painful reforms to stay afloat after logging billions of dollars in losses from its disastrous acquisition of US...
Trump tariffs bring in additional $9 bn in first quarter
Feb 13, 2019 (AFP)
Trump has repeatedly touted the tariffs imposed last year, notably on $250 billion in annual imports from China, as a windfall for the US government, paid by Ch...
Chinese lose taste for French wine as economy cools
Feb 13, 2019 (AFP)
The Federation for Wine and Spirit Exporters (FEVS) said direct sales to mainland China, France's third-biggest export market, slumped 14.4 percent in 2018 to 1...
Trump says could extend March 1 China trade talks deadline
Feb 12, 2019 (AFP)
"If we're close to a deal, where we think we can make a real deal... I could see myself letting that slide for a little while," Trump told reporters at the Whit...
Mnuchin in Beijing for crunch US-China trade talks
Feb 12, 2019 (AFP)
Mnuchin appeared at a Beijing hotel a couple of days ahead of scheduled high-level meetings with Chinese officials in the capital, with a March 1 deadline loomi...
US team in Beijing for trade talks after IMF 'storm' warning
Feb 11, 2019 (AFP)
Preliminary discussions had been expected to start on Monday, according to the White House, before US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secret...
High-stakes US-China trade talks resume as deadline approaches
Feb 10, 2019 (AFP)
China's economy already has shown signs of slowing, while the trade war has shaken the confidence of US businesses, as retaliatory tariffs have raised prices an...
Modest praise for US reform of visa program for skilled workers
Feb 10, 2019 (AFP)
The H-1B visa program, which admits some 85,000 foreign nationals each year, will give higher priority to people with post-graduate degrees from US universities...
The giant Chinese companies shaping the world's industries
Feb 09, 2019 (AFP)
The merger by Alstom and Siemens was vetoed by the EU on Thursday, but concerns about the overwhelming power of vast, often state-backed Chinese companies is no...
Trump's World Bank pick, an ally for the lender's critics?
Feb 09, 2019 (AFP)
Those complaints are similar to those voiced by others in the development community. But that does not mean they have found a new ally in David Malpass, the sen...
Trump says no Xi meeting expected before trade talks deadline
Feb 07, 2019 (AFP)
"Not yet," Trump told reporters at the White House when asked if a meeting had been arranged for within the next month. Asked if a meeting could happen by March...
US Democrats unveil carbon-neutral 'Green New Deal'
Feb 07, 2019 (AFP)
The "Green New Deal" introduced by liberal congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a rising Democratic star in the House, and Senator Ed Markey is a dramatic, p...
Trump says China 'theft' of US jobs and wealth must end
Feb 06, 2019 (AFP)
In his annual State of the Union address, Trump also called on China to make the kind of far-reaching "structural" changes to industrial policy that analysts sa...
US, China committed to reaching trade deal by deadline: Mnuchin
Feb 06, 2019 (AFP)
President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping agreed to a 90-day truce in the ongoing trade war, but US tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese imports are du...
China fears shake Berlin's economic principles
Feb 05, 2019 (AFP)
Aware he was making a rare break with conventional wisdom, Economy Minister Peter Altmaier took pains to set limits to his public investment scheme, one element...
US Treasury welcomes 'support' from Democrats on China
Feb 05, 2019 (AFP)
Mnuchin's remarks came in response to accusations from Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat in the Senate, that he had urged Trump to soften his stance in the trade ...
UN says EU could win big in US-China trade war
Feb 04, 2019 (AFP)
In a report, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) examined the repercussions of the tariff tit-for-tat already under way between the two trade gi...
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