TRADE WARS - AFRICA DAILY

Metal prices slide on strong dollar, China woes

Nov 20, 2015 (AFP)

The prices of metals slumped to multi-year low points this week owing mainly to a strengthening dollar and persistent concerns over weaker Chinese demand, analy...

Xi warns of rival free trade pact 'fragmentation'

Nov 18, 2015 (AFP)

China's President Xi Jinping Wednesday urged Asian economies to sign up to its free trade agreement, warning that rival pacts risked causing "fragmentation" amo...

Pakistan army chief heads to US as pressure grows over Afghanistan

Nov 14, 2015 (AFP)

Pakistan's influential military chief will visit the US from Sunday, a trip analysts say will underscore security issues facing Islamabad and Washington in the ...

Pakistan hands land over to China for economic zone

Nov 11, 2015 (AFP)

Pakistan handed hundreds of hectares of land over to China Wednesday for development of a special economic zone in the port of Gwadar, part of a $46 billion pro...

China splurges on world's biggest online shopping spree

Nov 11, 2015 (AFP)

Chinese Internet users spent billions of dollars in the planet's biggest online shopping splurge Wednesday, as "Singles Day" hit new heights, despite slowing gr...

China to push alternative trade pact at APEC: minister

Nov 10, 2015 (AFP)

China will seek to push its own vision of an Asia-Pacific trade pact at a regional summit next week, senior officials said Tuesday, after this month's release o...

Shanghai free trade zone director under investigation

Nov 10, 2015 (AFP)

A director of China's first free trade zone (FTZ) in Shanghai has been put under investigation for "severe disciplinary violations", Communist Party authorities...

Japan's six-month current account surplus quadruples

Nov 10, 2015 (AFP)

Japan said Tuesday its current account surplus more than quadrupled in the six months to September thanks to an improving trade picture and buoyant returns on t...

Record China trade surplus highlights struggle to boost demand

Nov 08, 2015 (AFP)

China recorded its highest trade surplus on record last month, official data showed Sunday, as plunging imports highlighted the country's continued struggle to ...

China applies to join European reconstruction bank

Nov 05, 2015 (AFP)

China has requested to join the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the bank's chief economist said Thursday. "China has indeed made a form...

Trade trumps hostility for S. Korea-China-Japan summit

Oct 31, 2015 (AFP)

South Korea, China and Japan hold their first leadership summit in more than three years Sunday, marking a victory for political, and particularly economic prag...

Chinese investors held after metals exchange protest plans

Oct 29, 2015 (AFP)

Hundreds of Chinese investors who lost vast sums on a failed metals exchange were detained to stop them mounting a protest in Beijing, several of them told AFP ...

German exporters thrive despite China concerns: federation

Oct 27, 2015 (AFP)

Germany's export sector is in good shape and is unlikely to be hurt by the Volkswagen scandal, although concerns remain about the economic slowdown in China, th...

Tech spats spark fears of 'digital protectionism'

Oct 24, 2015 (AFP)

As American tech giants extend their global reach, fears are growing on their side of the Atlantic over trade barriers some see as "digital protectionism." Whil...

Myanmar's elite dig 'stone of heaven' from mines of hell

Oct 23, 2015 (AFP)

Everyday rickety homes in a remote Myanmar village inch closer to a cliff edge as bulldozers owned by the nation's elite claw the earth beneath them, ravenously...

Cameron, Xi address steel crisis after UK job cuts

Oct 21, 2015 (AFP)

President Xi Jinping on Wednesday responded to accusations that China has pushed down global steel prices during a visit to London that has coincided with a wav...

India's Tata Steel blames China for British jobs cuts

Oct 20, 2015 (AFP)

India's Tata Steel on Tuesday said it would cut around 1,200 jobs at two plants in Britain, blaming the move in part on cheap imports from China. "This comes in...

Pomp and protests as China's Xi meets Queen Elizabeth II

Oct 20, 2015 (AFP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping enjoyed a glittering state banquet hosted by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday in a visit to Britain focused on bu...

Business ties herald 'golden era' as China's Xi visits UK

Oct 18, 2015 (AFP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping begins a four-day visit to Britain on Tuesday in which human rights issues are to be eclipsed by lavish ceremony and hardnosed busi...

China imports plummet on weak commodities prices

Oct 13, 2015 (AFP)

Chinese imports plunged by more than a fifth last month, official figures showed Tuesday, as slowing growth in the world's second-largest economy wreaks havoc o...