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Trump and Xi break the ice
07:33:11 Jun 06 2025
US President Donald Trump and China’s leader Xi Jinping agreed to launch a new round of high-level trade talks, the European......
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Donald Trump and Xi Jinping agree to launch new round of trade talks
20:59:27 Jun 05 2025
Donald Trump agreed with Xi Jinping to launch a new round of high-level trade talks between the US and China as the leaders......
Edward White in Shanghai and James Politi in Washington
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EU businesses lobby China for rare earths ‘fast-track’ channel
17:00:41 Jun 05 2025
EU businesses are lobbying Beijing to set up a special channel to fast-track Chinese approval of rare earth export licences......
Joe Leahy, Ryan McMorrow, Eleanor Olcott in Beijing and Edward White in Shanghai
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Citigroup lays off 3,500 tech staff in China
14:59:34 Jun 05 2025
Citigroup has laid off 3,500 technology staff in mainland China as part of the bank’s push to cut costs and streamline its......
Cheng Leng and Arjun Neil Alim in Hong Kong and Thomas Hale in Shanghai
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A resurgent China should do the hard work now
12:00:16 Jul 01 2025
The writer is a professor at Cornell University, senior fellow at Brookings and author of ‘The Future of Money’To all appearances......
Eswar Prasad
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China’s tighter export controls squeeze wider range of rare earths
12:04:43 Jun 30 2025
China’s export controls are spilling over into products beyond the rare earths and magnets officially identified by Beijing......
Edward White in Shanghai
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US shoppers ditch Shein and Temu as Trump closes tax loophole
12:00:11 Jun 30 2025
Online retailers Temu and Shein have seen their once rapid user growth go into reverse in the US after President Donald Trump......
Laura Onita in London
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The vulnerabilities holding back Chinese industry
12:00:01 Jun 30 2025
In the early 1950s as the Communist party set out to rebuild a China ravaged by years of war, Mao Zedong, the revolutionary......
Edward White in Shanghai and Harry Dempsey in Tokyo
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Donald Trump accuses China of violating US tariff truce
16:01:44 May 30 2025
Donald Trump has accused China of violating its two-week-old tariff truce with the US, threatening to reignite the trade......
Joe Leahy in Beijing
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Prague blames Beijing for cyber attack on foreign ministry
22:14:38 May 28 2025
Prague said on Wednesday that state-sponsored Chinese hackers had targeted its foreign ministry’s unclassified communications......
Raphael Minder in Warsaw and Henry Foy in Brussels
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China’s He Lifeng: Xi Jinping’s ally leading trade talks with US
12:05:20 May 09 2025
In Donald Trump’s first term, US trade negotiators encountered a familiar interlocutor in China: Liu He, a Harvard-educated......
Edward White in Shanghai and Joe Leahy in Beijing
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US and China to launch formal trade talks
06:42:59 May 07 2025
Washington and Beijing will this week hold their first trade talks since US President Donald Trump launched a trade war against......
Demetri Sevastopulo and Aime Williams in Washington and Ryan McMorrow in Beijing
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A resurgent China should do the hard work now
12:00:16 Jul 01 2025
The writer is a professor at Cornell University, senior fellow at Brookings and author of ‘The Future of Money’To all appearances......
Eswar Prasad
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Hong Kong’s bull market leaves China behind
06:00:05 Jul 01 2025
Hong Kong’s bull market is leaving China behind, in a sign that a lacklustre economic recovery and trade tensions with the......
William Sandlund and Haohsiang Ko in Hong Kong
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China’s tighter export controls squeeze wider range of rare earths
12:04:43 Jun 30 2025
China’s export controls are spilling over into products beyond the rare earths and magnets officially identified by Beijing......
Edward White in Shanghai
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US shoppers ditch Shein and Temu as Trump closes tax loophole
12:00:11 Jun 30 2025
Online retailers Temu and Shein have seen their once rapid user growth go into reverse in the US after President Donald Trump......
Laura Onita in London
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China’s tighter export controls squeeze wider range of rare earths
12:04:43 Jun 30 2025
China’s export controls are spilling over into products beyond the rare earths and magnets officially identified by Beijing......
Edward White in Shanghai
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China’s ‘Summer Davos’ offers rare respite from trade war
11:45:50 Jun 27 2025
As he took the stage to open the World Economic Forum in Tianjin this week, China’s second-in-command Li Qiang drew a direct......
Thomas Hale and Eleanor Olcott in Tianjin
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Donald Trump says US-China trade truce has been ‘signed’
07:53:21 Jun 27 2025
Donald Trump said on Thursday the US and China had signed a trade deal, two weeks after saying they had reached an understanding......
Demetri Sevastopulo, Aime Williams, Myles McCormick in Washington and Edward White in Shanghai
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US strikes on Iran force China to reconsider Donald Trump’s isolationism
12:01:02 Jun 26 2025
Donald Trump’s dramatic intervention in the Iran-Israel war has reverberated well beyond the Middle East, forcing rival China......
Edward White in Shanghai and Kathrin Hille in Taipei
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A resurgent China should do the hard work now
12:00:16 Jul 01 2025
The writer is a professor at Cornell University, senior fellow at Brookings and author of ‘The Future of Money’To all appearances......
Eswar Prasad
Business
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US shoppers ditch Shein and Temu as Trump closes tax loophole
12:00:11 Jun 30 2025
Online retailers Temu and Shein have seen their once rapid user growth go into reverse in the US after President Donald Trump......
Laura Onita in London
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The vulnerabilities holding back Chinese industry
12:00:01 Jun 30 2025
In the early 1950s as the Communist party set out to rebuild a China ravaged by years of war, Mao Zedong, the revolutionary......
Edward White in Shanghai and Harry Dempsey in Tokyo
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China’s manufacturing activity shrinks for third straight month
10:49:18 Jun 30 2025
Chinese manufacturing activity contracted for the third straight month in June, according to official data, highlighting......
Thomas Hale in Shanghai