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China's imports plummet in March
Apr 12, 2019 (AFP)
Total imports sank 7.6 percent on-year last month while exports rose 14.2 percent, the data from China's customs administration showed, producing a trade surplu...
China's consumer and producer prices tick up in March
Apr 11, 2019 (AFP)
Beijing has struggled to get prices to pick up in recent months, with both measures staying stubbornly low as the global growth cools leading to weak demand whi...
IMF, World Bank urge caution with China loans
Apr 11, 2019 (AFP)
The global development lenders, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, are calling for more transparency about loan amounts and terms, and cautioning g...
No 'arbitrary deadline' in US-China trade talks: Mnuchin
Apr 10, 2019 (AFP)
"We're not going to set an arbitrary deadline," Mnuchin told CNBC, adding that the details of an enforcement mechanism for the agreement had now been "pretty mu...
China, US could win big on no-deal Brexit: UN
Apr 09, 2019 (AFP)
In a fresh report, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) examined what repercussions it would have for Britain's trading partners if the country c...
EU's Juncker demands fair trade from China ahead of summit
Apr 09, 2019 (AFP)
The EU-China summit every year brings Beijing's number two leader the EU's top officials together and serves as a litmus test on the state of ties between Europ...
China pledges open economy at EU summit
Apr 09, 2019 (AFP)
EU Council president Donald Tusk hailed Beijing's new commitments at an EU-China summit in Brussels as a "breakthrough" with both sides committed to globalisati...
China lowers tariffs on computers, bikes, other goods
Apr 08, 2019 (AFP)
Beijing and Washington have slapped tariffs on more than $360 billion in two-way trade in their simmering trade spat while Europe has recently indicated it will...
No breakthrough expected in EU-China summit
Apr 07, 2019 (AFP)
Brussels is trying to beef up its approach to the Asian giant as it shows little willingness to listen to longstanding complaints about industrial subsidies and...
Trump sees progress in China talks but doesn't predict success
Apr 05, 2019 (AFP)
"The China meeting was a big success," Trump told reporters, discussing the latest round of shuttle diplomacy conducted this week in Washington. "I don't want t...
Trump gives US-China trade talks another four weeks
Apr 05, 2019 (AFP)
But, nine months into the two countries' trade war, the announcement was anti-climactic, as the White House had earlier stoked anticipation that Trump could ann...
Trump to meet China's top trade negotiator at the White House
Apr 04, 2019 (AFP)
Trump will meet Liu, who is also China's top trade negotiator, in the afternoon at the White House, according to an official scheduling note from the president'...
IMF: all-out US-China trade war could lift Canada and Mexico
Apr 03, 2019 (AFP)
The world's top two economies themselves would be the biggest losers in the event of a 25 percent hike in duties on all trade in goods, the IMF said in a report...
Brussels increasingly wary of long Brexit delay
Apr 02, 2019 (AFP)
With less than two weeks until Britain ends its four-decade-old EU membership, UK lawmakers are still deadlocked over what kind of divorce they want. European n...
New Zealand PM touts 'important' China ties amid Huawei spat
Apr 01, 2019 (AFP)
The two leaders made the remarks as they met at Beijing's Great Hall of the People on Ardern's first trip abroad since the Christchurch mosque attacks. "Your vi...
Cyclone cuts BHP's Australia iron ore production
Apr 01, 2019 (AFP)
The Anglo-Australian mining firm said Tropical Cyclone Veronica, which stuck the region last month, had so far cut production by approximately six to eight mill...
Protesters strip off during Brexit debate
Apr 01, 2019 (AFP)
"I'm tired of the time and resources our government wastes rearranging the deckchairs on the Brexitanic," Iggy Fox, a 24-year-old wildlife biologist and one of ...
China factory activity up after four-month slide
Mar 31, 2019 (AFP)
The official Purchasing Managers' Index, a measure of factory activity, rose to 50.5 in March from the previous month's contraction and three-year low of 49.2. ...
China banks post profits but warn of instability
Mar 30, 2019 (AFP)
Bank of China (BOC) posted a profit of 192.44 billion yuan ($28.67 billion), up four percent from the previous year, which the company credited to a stable econ...
Trump says trade talks with China going 'very well'
Mar 29, 2019 (AFP)
US and Chinese negotiators are working to find a binding agreement to address Trump's complaints about years of unfair treatment of US companies by China, which...
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