TRADE WARS - INTERN DAILY

Trade war ramps up as US threatens $200bn in Chinese goods

Jul 11, 2018 (AFP)

The latest moves in the ballooning trade conflict between the world's top two economies came just days after tit-for-tat duties on $34 billion in goods came int...

California stands to suffer if US-China trade war worsens

Jul 11, 2018 (AFP)

Billions of dollars and many jobs are at risk in the richest and most populous US state -- a world-class economy and bastion of opposition to President Donald T...

Time for 'reckoning' over China's WTO membership: US

Jul 11, 2018 (AFP)

China's WTO "trade policy review" -- scheduled before Washington lit the fuse on a tariff battle with Beijing -- served as a new front in the widening economic ...

Shippers respond to U.S. steel needs in the face of tariffs

Jul 11, 2018 (UPI)

"The global shipping industry is ready to service the U.S. demand for steel, be it pipelines or any other product," Peter Sand, the chief shipping analyst for i...

Hong Kong activists celebrate after Liu Xia 'leaves China'

Jul 10, 2018 (AFP)

Liu Xia, 57, had faced no charges but endured heavy restrictions on her movements since 2010 when her husband won the Nobel Peace Prize, infuriating Beijing. Fr...

China's factory-gate prices rise in June

Jul 10, 2018 (AFP)

The producer price index (PPI) rose 4.7 percent year-on-year, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), a notch above the 4.5-percent gain forecast ...

EU's Tusk tells Trump: 'Appreciate your allies'

Jul 10, 2018 (AFP)

Trump has ramped up criticism of European defence spending in recent days, stressing how many EU members are failing to meet agreed targets for investments, whi...

Flood-postponed EU-Japan summit moved to Tokyo

Jul 09, 2018 (AFP)

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called off the trip this week to Belgium and three other countries as the death toll from flooding and landslides caused by r...

China eyes eastern Europe investment as US trade war sizzles

Jul 07, 2018 (AFP)

Road and rail projects funded by China will be high on the agenda at the summit, which has raised concerns in Brussels and richer Western European countries abo...

US, China fire first shots in 'largest trade war in economic history'

Jul 06, 2018 (AFP)

At the stroke of midnight Washington time, the US pulled the trigger on 25-percent duties on about $34 billion in Chinese machinery, electronics and high-tech e...

China counterpunches against US in growing trade war

Jul 06, 2018 (AFP)

Late Friday, China announced it was expanding its existing complaint against the United States at the World Trade Organization, hours after the countries slappe...

China pledges more 'selfless' loans to Sri Lanka

Jul 05, 2018 (AFP)

Dismissing "Western media" claims of a "debt trap", China's embassy in Colombo also rejected a recent New York Times report about alleged corruption in Chinese ...

Malaysia suspends multi-billion dollar China-backed deals

Jul 05, 2018 (AFP)

The deals were among several Beijing-backed projects signed by scandal-hit Najib, who was unseated by his former mentor Mahathir Mohamad in elections last May. ...

EU 'possibly as bad as China' on trade: Trump

Jul 01, 2018 (AFP)

"The European Union is possibly as bad as China, only smaller," Trump said on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" program. "They send a Mercedes in, we can't sen...

manufacturing activity slows in June

Jun 30, 2018 (AFP)

The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), a key gauge of factory conditions, came in at 51.5 in June, decelerating from 51.9 in May, the National Bureau of Statisti...

US trade war upends China's economic balancing act

Jun 29, 2018 (AFP)

With the Trump administration preparing to roll out tariffs on some $34 billion of Chinese imports next week, the Shanghai Stock Exchange is taking a nosedive -...

China unveils easing of investment curbs as trade war looms

Jun 29, 2018 (AFP)

The new "negative list" outlines key reforms in the financial sector while dropping restrictions in areas including the car industry, agriculture, infrastructur...

Texas presses Trump on aluminum, steel tariffs

Jun 29, 2018 (UPI)

"To maintain our energy dominance and continue meeting the energy needs of our nation and beyond, we need to be able to move unprecedented volumes of oil and na...

French police seize 10 Chinese-owned vineyards in fraud inquiry

Jun 29, 2018 (AFP)

Haichang Group, based in the northeastern Chinese port city of Dalian, is the biggest of numerous Chinese investors which have bought into one of France's most ...

China defends its post-WTO business record

Jun 28, 2018 (AFP)

Hitting back at critics like US President Donald Trump, China published a white paper titled "China and the World Trade Organization" outlining reforms Beijing ...