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China calls on US to be 'cool-headed' in trade war
Aug 02, 2018 (AFP)
Slapping additional tariffs on Chinese imports -- 60 percent of which are made by foreign firms, including American companies -- will only raise costs for domes...
China-backed trade pact could be signed by year-end: Singapore PM
Aug 02, 2018 (AFP)
The 16-nation Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is poised to become the largest free-trade agreement in the world, covering about half of its p...
Trump threatens to ramp up tariffs on Chinese goods
Aug 02, 2018 (AFP)
President Donald Trump asked the US Trade Representative to consider increasing the proposed tariffs to 25 percent from the planned 10 percent, USTR Robert Ligh...
Trump could raise tariffs further on Chinese goods: reports
Aug 01, 2018 (AFP)
The US imposed 25 percent tariffs on $34 billion of Chinese products earlier this month, with plans to add another $16 billion of imports on Tuesday. Trump init...
Chinese investors drop bid for German machine tool maker
Aug 01, 2018 (AFP)
"I can confirm that the interested party has withdraw its request for clearance from the economy ministry," a Leifeld spokeswoman told AFP, confirming media rep...
China manufacturing activity eases in July
Jul 31, 2018 (AFP)
The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), a key gauge of factory conditions, came in at 51.2 for the month, down from 51.5 in June, the National Bureau of Statistic...
Australia, US, Japan in Indo-Pacific infrastructure push
Jul 31, 2018 (AFP)
Beijing has loaned countries across Asia billions of dollars as part of its "Belt and Road" development strategy, including to island nations in the Pacific, a ...
UK's Hunt welcomes China's offer of talks on post-Brexit trade deal
Jul 30, 2018 (AFP)
Hunt, appointed earlier this month, was in the Chinese capital to meet Foreign Minister Wang Yi and other top officials, on a trip that will also include stops ...
UK's chief diplomat begins Brexit bargaining tour
Jul 29, 2018 (AFP)
"The UK and China are both major powers with a global perspective", said foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt in a statement issued ahead of the visit. "As the UK leav...
IMF warns China against aggressive economic stimulus
Jul 27, 2018 (AFP)
The IMF warning, contained in a policy report, comes after Chinese leaders earlier this week signalled a shift toward looser fiscal policy to help barricade the...
Germany preparing first veto against Chinese takeover: report
Jul 26, 2018 (AFP)
Business weekly Wirtschaftswoche reported the economy ministry will prevent Chinese investor Yantai Taihai Corporation from buying Leifeld Metal Spinning. The 2...
US says China is increasing state's economic control
Jul 26, 2018 (AFP)
In a blistering attack delivered to the World Trade Organization's top body, US Ambassador Dennis Shea rejected Chinese assertions that it had satisfied the con...
BRICS nations pledge unity as trade war threatens
Jul 26, 2018 (AFP)
The heads of the BRICS group -- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- met in Johannesburg for an annual summit dominated by the risk of a US-led trad...
BRICS emerging economies meet as US trade war looms
Jul 25, 2018 (AFP)
US President Donald Trump's hardening stance has compounded fears of an all-out trade war after he slapped levies on goods from China worth tens of billions of ...
China's Xi says 'no winner' in any trade war
Jul 25, 2018 (AFP)
"A trade war should be rejected because there will be no winner," Xi said at the opening of a BRICS summit of emerging economies in Johannesburg. "Unilateralism...
Trump set for tense trade talks with EU's Juncker
Jul 25, 2018 (AFP)
Speaking ahead of the White House talks, Juncker admitted he was "not very optimistic," while Trump kicked off the day with a combative series of tweets vowing ...
Stimulus measures push Chinese shares higher
Jul 24, 2018 (AFP)
After more than a year of pushing a crackdown on dangerous debt levels in the financial system, Premier Li Keqiang said the government's "fiscal policy should b...
IMF warns excess trade surpluses aggravate tensions
Jul 24, 2018 (AFP)
But in a message that seemed directed largely at US President Donald Trump, the IMF once again warned against using protectionist trade measures, calling this a...
IMF official says 'no evidence' China manipulating currency
Jul 24, 2018 (AFP)
The comments by IMF chief economist Maury Obstfeld came after US President Donald Trump accused China and the European Union of keeping their currencies artific...
Trade war risk to dominate BRICS summit in S.Africa
Jul 24, 2018 (AFP)
US President Donald Trump's hardening stance has compounded fears of an all-out trade war after he slapped levies on goods from China worth tens of billions of ...
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