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China denies setting target to cut US trade surplus
May 24, 2018 (AFP)
Officials from Beijing were reported to have offered to slash the country's huge surplus by $200 billion during high-level talks last week -- meeting a key Wash...
Macron presses tech giants on taxes, working conditions
May 23, 2018 (AFP)
Around 60 industry leaders, including Zuckerberg, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi and IBM chief Ginni Rometty travelled to Paris for talks with the French leader abo...
Merkel seeks united front with China amid Trump trade fears
May 22, 2018 (AFP)
Finding a common strategy to ward off a trade war and keep markets open will be Merkel's priority when she meets with President Xi Jinping, as Washington brandi...
EU seeks US trade detente after China reprieve
May 22, 2018 (AFP)
Europe was hit by the shock tariffs in March, part of the protectionist president's threat of an "America First" trade war with Washington's closest partners, i...
New Washington-Beijing trade 'consensus' resolves little: analysts
May 21, 2018 (AFP)
Both sides said Saturday they were committed to reducing the soaring US trade deficit with China, one of President Donald Trump's central demands. To get there,...
US, China back off on tariffs, easing trade tensions
May 20, 2018 (AFP)
"We have made very meaningful progress and we agreed on a framework," Mnuchin told Fox News Sunday. "So right now we have agreed to put the tariffs on hold whil...
Beijing hails Portugal's openness to Chinese investment
May 18, 2018 (AFP)
Speaking to reporters alongside his Portuguese counterpart Augusto Santos Silva, Wang Yi praised Portugal's "open" attitude to foreign investment, adding that h...
Trump dampens chances of trade deal with China
May 18, 2018 (AFP)
Trump met with a Chinese delegation headed by Vice Premier Liu He on Thursday as talks aimed at easing frictions between the economic powers got underway. "The ...
Rare bottles of whisky fetch record $1m each at Hong Kong auction
May 18, 2018 (AFP)
One bottle, bearing a label designed by British pop artist Peter Blake -- who helped create the sleeve of The Beatles' album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club B...
China expected to allow European beef 'in near future': EU
May 18, 2018 (AFP)
China had banned imports of European and then US beef due to cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or "mad cow disease". The European Union has been ...
Mnuchin to lead US in trade talks with China
May 17, 2018 (AFP)
"These meetings are a continuation of the talks held in Beijing two weeks ago and will focus on rebalancing the United States-China bilateral economic relations...
US's Mnuchin to lead trade talks with China
May 16, 2018 (AFP)
"These meetings are a continuation of the talks held in Beijing two weeks ago and will focus on rebalancing the United States-China bilateral economic relations...
China spots problems with US cars, pork as trade talks loom
May 16, 2018 (AFP)
The world's two largest economies are locked in a tense standoff with tariff threats hanging over billions of dollars of goods many fear could spark a damaging ...
US Iran sanctions to target auto, aircraft sectors first: French govt source
May 15, 2018 (AFP)
Energy and finance will follow, with companies facing punishment if they continue to do business with Iran, after US President Donald Trump withdrew from a land...
Trump administration faces crunch week on trade
May 15, 2018 (AFP)
High-stakes negotiations will take place with China, the European Union and Washington's two North American Free Trade Agreement partners. And while the talks h...
China's industrial output jumps but sales slump
May 15, 2018 (AFP)
Output at factories and workshops expanded 7.0 percent year-on-year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said, beating the 6.0 percent recorded in March and...
HSBC, ING banks announce blockchain first
May 14, 2018 (AFP)
The transaction, using the cutting-edge blockchain technology driving virtual currencies like bitcoin, involved a bulk shipment of soybeans from Argentina on be...
Trump pledges to safeguard Chinese telecoms jobs
May 14, 2018 (AFP)
Writing on Twitter, Trump said he had issued instructions for officials to come up with a rescue plan, saying too many jobs were at risk. "President Xi of China...
Trump Indonesia project latest stop on China's Belt and Road
May 11, 2018 (AFP)
A subsidiary of Chinese state-owned construction firm Metallurgical Corporation of China (MCC) signed a deal with Indonesia's MNC Land to build a theme park out...
Wall Street banking giant JP Morgan looks to expand in China
May 11, 2018 (AFP)
JP Morgan Broking applied to establish a foreign invested securities firm with 51 percent control on May 10, according to a statement by the China Securities Re...
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