Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Senegal and Rwanda and is in South Africa before attending this week’s BRICS summit. This is Xi’s fourth visit to Africa in five years and the first overseas trip of his second term as China’s leader.
The change in the way Americans look at Chinese students in the US is in line with the American mind-set of looking at China. This would help us gauge the public opinion about President Donald Trump's trade war with China.
Joe Courtney, ranking member of the Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee, recently speaking at Hudson Institute accused China of challenging the "70-year reign of freedom of navigation" and trying to change the "peaceful rule of law that existed in the maritime realm." The accusation is nothing new compared to what the US has leveled over the past few years.
As an emerging sector, mobile payments cannot avoid the negative effect brought by the ongoing trade tensions, which are in nature intended to contain China's further development in the high-technology sector.
Open to trade is one of the driving forces of China's economic growth, which will continue to grow at about 6.5 percent, said John Ross, Senior Fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China.
When describing Sino-Pakistani friendship, people often use words like higher than the mountains, deeper than the sea, sweeter than honey, harder than steel, and more precious than the eyes. The two countries have established an all-weather and all-round strategic partnership that is time-tested and is a model for other countries with different social systems to build good neighborly relations.
China and Rwanda are expected to sign more than a dozen trade and investment deals during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit as Beijing seeks to cement its strategic influence in Africa and the Middle East.
The world economy is gradually recovering but the US is causing uncertainty by acting aggressively toward its trade partners all over the world. Against this backdrop, before China, Russia and other BRICS members gather in Johannesburg, South Africa from Wednesday to Friday, the fourth China-Russia Economy Dialogue was held in Beijing by the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China on July 15 and 16. On the sidelines of the conference, Bai Yunyi, a reporter with th
China on Monday dismissed recent claims from US officials that suggested China has been deliberately devaluing its currency to gain advantage in exports, saying such accusations are baseless and could lead to a currency war that would further hurt both countries and the global economy.
China launched a nationwide inspection over the safety of vaccines amid a huge public outcry after evidence showed one of the country's largest vaccine makers fabricated data and provided substandard vaccines to children.
As a multilateral cooperation platform for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, BRICS has become an active player in global governance. The 10th BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, from July 25 to 27 is significant, because it brings together the leading emerging economies which are committed to safeguarding and promoting globalization and free trade amid growing unilateralism and trade protectionism in many parts of the world.
The US is trying to offer Europe and Japan free-trade deals at a G20 finance ministers meeting in an attempt to gain advantage in the trade war with China, but was turned down by France as Chinese experts asserted the Trump administration has lost all respect for global trade rules.
China lodged a complaint on Monday to the World Trade Organization regarding the United States' proposed tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports, the Ministry of Commerce said in a statement.
China will not concede to US tactics, and the "ball is always in the US' court," Chinese officials and experts stressed on Thursday amid trade frictions between China and the US, after US President Donald Trump's top economic adviser accused China of stalling efforts to resolve a growing trade dispute.
US President Donald Trump kept tossing bombs all through his Europe trip. He called the European Union a “foe” of the US soon after the NATO Summit and implied he would trust Russian President Vladimir Putin rather than his own intelligence services after the meeting with his Russian counterpart.
Power is corrosive, and hegemonic power more so. Unilateralism is an example of the corrosion of power. The unilateralism in trade being exercised by the US is in essence a result of the habitual exploitation of power.
As economic uncertainty increases, China's fiscal policy needs to inject certainty into the economy and social development, safeguarding the country's deepening reform, an expert said.
Chinese President Xi Jinping will start his visit to the Middle East and Africa on Thursday. Chinese experts said his trips could help more countries benefit from the China-proposed Belt and Road initiative.
An official from China's top economic planner said Tuesday that the commission will speed up an assessment of negative impacts on domestic companies arising from the ongoing Sino-US trade row, and will provide "targeted support" after this assessment.
After U.S. President Donald Trump instigated a trade war that launched 25-percent tariffs on $34 billion worth of Chinese products on July 6, the Chinese Government immediately retaliated with tit-for-tat duties on U.S. goods.