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China’s factory activity contracts for 8th month in November despite trade war truce

China’s factory activity contracted for the eighth straight month in November, according to an official survey on Sunday, underscoring challenges for the country’s economy despite the U.S. Read More

China seeks to inflict economic blow on Japan amid escalating spat over Taiwan

Beijing suggested it might reimpose a ban on seafood imports from Japan after warning its citizens to avoid travel there and postponing the releases of at least two Japanese movies. Read More

If you think Trump’s China deal is the end of the story, you haven’t been paying attention

Financial markets kicked off the week by gleefully cheering the weekend’s headlines that trade talks between the United States and China went smoothly. Just weeks earlier, Trump had threatened to ... Read More

China’s economy slows as trade war takes its toll

BEIJING >> China’s economic growth slowed to the weakest pace in a year in the third quarter as fragile domestic demand left it heavily reliant on the humming of its exporting factories, stoking ... Read More

A Trump-Xi trade deal won’t fix either country’s economy

The extraordinary trade war President Donald Trump unleashed has been taking a toll on the Chinese and American economies. China is in a far more precarious state, mostly due to preexisting problems, ... Read More

China’s economy slows to 4.8% annual growth in July-September, hit by tariffs and slack demand

HONG KONG (AP) — China’s economy expanded at the slowest annual pace in a year in July-September, growing 4.8%, weighed down by trade tensions with the United States and slack domestic demand. The ... Read More

Why a US-China trade deal matters to the global economy

Gyeongju, South Korea – Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping’s first face-to-face meeting since 2019 is expected to produce a deal to lower trade tensions between the United States and China. But ... Read More

US-China Trade War Clouds Global Economic Outlook as 'New Normal' Emerges

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -International finance chiefs are returning home with a measure of relief over the surprising resilience of the global economy to the cascade of policy shocks through the first ... Read More

China warns Japan of economic blow, crushing defeat as Taiwan row escalates

China has asked its visitors to avoid Japan after PM Sanae Takaichi's remarks over Taiwan plunged bilateral ties to the lowest in years. Other than economic retaliation, China has threatened Japan ... Read More

Japanese experts warn reckless political moves would undermine economic ties with China

Masaaki Kanai, director-general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau at Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, began a visit to China on Monday. Hamada said he hopes Kanai, as a special envoy for ... Read More