Photo by China Photos/Getty Images) Photographer: China Photos/Getty Images AsiaPac (Bloomberg) — Chinese equities slumped and bond futures climbed, showing investors remain concerned about trade tensions even after President Donald Trump signaled over the weekend that he’s open to talks. The Hang Seng China Enterprises Index fell as much as 3.6% before paring its drop…
Shing-Tung Yau, one of the world’s most influential mathematicians, is chair of Tsinghua University’s Qiuzhen College, which is fast-tracking talented young students through a programme of his own design. Born in the southern province of Guangdong and educated in Hong Kong and the US, the 76-year-old shared his ideas on science and education, key to…
In a fast and furious year of devastating wars and high-stakes diplomacy, the historic meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi stands out as a potential harbinger of a new global order. In his first visit to China in seven years, Modi agreed with Xi that Asia’s two powers should…
In a move that could dent China’s relations with the European Union, Chinese technology company Wingtech said control of its Dutch subsidiary Nexperia has been effectively frozen, following an intervention by a government ministry and court in the Netherlands. In a corporate filing dated October 13, lodged with the Shanghai Stock Exchange on Sunday, Wingtech…
By Eduardo Baptista and Selena Li BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) -China called U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest tariffs on Chinese goods hypocritical on Sunday and defended its curbs on exports of rare earth elements and equipment, but stopped short of imposing new levies on U.S. products. Trump on Friday responded to Beijing’s most recent export controls…
High technology and low incomes were in sharp focus in China late last week as two of its senior officials visited opposite ends of the country. On a trip to the eastern province of Zhejiang from Thursday to Saturday, Vice-Premier Zhang Guoqing urged manufacturers to apply new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) to research…
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s blistering response to Donald Trump violating the terms of their fragile trade truce has reignited a tit-for-tat spiral, exposing the rocky path to any US-China trade deal. After China unveiled wide-ranging global export controls on products containing even traces of certain rare earths this past week, Trump fired back by threatening…
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Residents of China’s capital city, Beijing, on Saturday showed indifference and defiance about United States President Donald Trump’s recent decision to impose harsh new tariffs on the country, AFP reported. On Friday, Trump unexpectedly announced that the United States would impose an extra 100 percent tariff on all imports from China starting from November 1,…
US President Donald Trump’s latest threat of an extra 100 per cent tariff on Chinese goods has left exporters in China on edge, with many scrambling to ship their products before the tariffs take effect. Some hope that the tariffs might be lifted at the last moment, as has happened with previous measures, but most…