BEIJING (AP) — China’s leader Xi Jinping and Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn pledged closer ties on Friday during the first-ever visit to China by a reigning Thai monarch. Xi and his wife, Peng Liyuan, greeted Vajiralongkorn and his wife, Queen Suthida, at Beijing’s vast Great Hall of the People. The visit was intended to mark…
BEIJING (AP) — Three Chinese astronauts stranded at their nation’s space station after their spacecraft was apparently hit by space debris departed for home Friday using the craft that had brought a replacement crew, China’s space agency said. The astronauts were on a six-month rotation at the space station and originally scheduled to return Nov….
Wall Street inched slightly lower early Thursday after President Donald Trump signed a U.S. government funding bill, ending the record 43-day shutdown. Futures for S&P 500, Dow Jones industrials and the Nasdaq all ticked down less than 0.1%, before the bell and ahead of the reopening of the federal government following a six-week standoff that…
HONG KONG (AP) — China’s exports contracted in October, hit by a 25% drop in shipments to the United States, the government reported Friday. Persisting trade tensions with Washington may get a respite in the final quarter of the year after President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping agreed last week to de-escalate the…