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Hong Kong official warns US 'hillbillies' over tariffs as China's trade soared in March
Apr 15, 2025 (AFP)
Xia Baolong, director of the Hong Kong and Macao Work Office, said in a speech that the Chinese finance hub has never levied taxes on imports and that the Unite...
Xi's Vietnam trip aiming to 'screw' US, says Trump
Apr 15, 2025 (AFP)
Xi visited Vietnam as part of a Southeast Asia tour that will include Malaysia and Cambodia, with Beijing trying to position itself as a stable alternative to T...
Trump trade war casts pall in China's southern export heartland
Apr 15, 2025 (AFP)
Beijing and Washington have been locked in a fast-moving, high-stakes game of brinkmanship since the US president began his global tariff assault that has parti...
'Ghost town' fears haunt threatened UK steel community
Apr 15, 2025 (AFP)
Smeared in soot, 18-year-old Hopkins said after his shift at the British Steel plant: "I shovel and all that lot, it's amazing. It's hard work but it makes your...
Chinese exports soared in March ahead of Trump's 'Liberation Day'
Apr 14, 2025 (AFP)
Beijing and Washington have been locked in a fast-moving, high-stakes game of brinkmanship since Trump launched a global tariff assault that has particularly ta...
US Treasury chief says big deal to be done at some point; Xi warns protectionism leads nowhere
Apr 14, 2025 (AFP)
"There's a big deal to be done at some point" Bessent said when asked by Bloomberg TV about the possibility that the world's largest economies would decouple. "...
China warns UK against 'politicising' steel furnaces rescue
Apr 14, 2025 (AFP)
Prime Minister Keir Starmer's government has swooped in to prevent the closure of British Steel's main plant in Scunthorpe, northern England, after its owner, t...
Xi warns protectionism 'leads nowhere' as starts SE Asia tour
Apr 14, 2025 (AFP)
Xi's first overseas trip of the year will see him visit Vietnam, Malaysia and Cambodia as Beijing seeks to tighten regional trade ties and offset the impact of ...
Trump warns no country 'off the hook' on tariffs
Apr 14, 2025 (AFP)
The world's two largest economies have been locked in a fast-moving, high-stakes game of brinkmanship since Trump launched a global tariff assault that particul...
China calls on US to 'completely cancel' reciprocal tariffs
Apr 13, 2025 (AFP)
"We urge the US to... take a big step to correct its mistakes, completely cancel the wrong practice of 'reciprocal tariffs' and return to the right path of mutu...
China's Xi courts Southeast Asia as Trump tariffs bite
Apr 13, 2025 (AFP)
Xi will visit Vietnam, Malaysia and Cambodia in his first overseas trip of the year, China's foreign ministry said. He will meet his three Southeast Asian count...
'Naive' to trust Chinese firm with British Steel, UK minister says
Apr 13, 2025 (AFP)
But Jonathan Reynolds said he did not suspect the Chinese state of trying to tank the plant in northern England, the country's last factory able to make steel f...
Chinese manufacturers in fighting spirits despite scrapped US orders
Apr 12, 2025 (AFP)
Like countless other companies in the manufacturing powerhouse of Zhejiang province, its products are geared largely towards export -- a sector freshly menaced ...
US exempts tech imports in tariff step back
Apr 12, 2025 (AFP)
A notice late Friday by the US Customs and Border Protection office said smartphones, laptops, memory chips and other products would be excluded from the global...
Trump defends policy after China hits US with 125% tariffs
Apr 12, 2025 (AFP)
Investors dumped US government bonds, the dollar tumbled and stocks seesawed after Beijing's retaliation against Trump deepened concerns on already traumatized ...
China tells WTO head US tariffs will 'inflict serious harm on developing countries': commerce ministry
Apr 12, 2025 (AFP)
"These US 'reciprocal tariffs' will inflict serious harm on developing countries, especially the least developed countries, and could even trigger a humanitaria...
Iraqi markets a haven for pedlars escaping Iran's economic woes
Apr 12, 2025 (AFP)
He is just one of many Iranian pedlars who endure the arduous journey into southern Iraq through the Chalamja border crossing. They bring essential goods such a...
UK government to take control of British Steel under emergency law
Apr 12, 2025 (AFP)
The struggling plant in northern England had faced imminent closure and Prime Minister Keir Starmer said his government "stepped in to save British Steel" with ...
China's Xi meets Spanish PM Sanchez in Beijing
Apr 11, 2025 (AFP)
Sanchez's trip comes as the European Union rethinks its global trading relationships in the face of turmoil caused by the US import duties announced last week t...
Despite Trump pause, overall US tariff rate at highest in a century
Apr 11, 2025 (AFP)
Besides imposing sweeping new 10 percent tariffs on goods from most US trading partners, Trump has also unleashed steep duties on imports of steel, aluminum and...
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