China
19 Jul 2023
Bilateral China-US talks could set the tone for the COP28 UN climate summit in November. China's manufacturing-led economy produces the most carbon emissions and Beijing has increased its commitment to coal power.
18 Jul 2023
China producer prices suggest deflationary price pressures seen in upstream sectors, Grow Investment Group's chief economist Hong Hao said. Nominal GDP growth is lower than real GDP growth in Q2, Pinpoint Asset Management's chief economist Zhang Zhiwei said.
18 Jul 2023
The political divisions are widening between Germany and China, but Berlin does not want to put shackles on its own economic interests when it comes to dealing with its largest trading partner.
17 Jul 2023
As the US tries to halt the slide in relations with China, Beijing’s determination to "reunify" Taiwan with the mainland is still the sticking point. Taiwan's foreign minister, Joseph Wu, talks to DW's Tim Sebastian from Taipei.
15 Jul 2023
China's mass military exercises near Taiwan come at a time when NATO is holding a summit where leaders have called China as an opposing force with its "ambitions and coercive policies."
15 Jul 2023
China's Wang Yi, Russia's Sergey Lavrov and the US' Antony Blinken, and Southeast Asian ministers are expected at talks. Beijing and Washington have arranged several sets of relatively high-level talks in recent weeks.
14 Jul 2023
In an interview with FRANCE 24, Taiwan's Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said that Taiwan welcomed the final communiqué of the NATO summit, which criticised China's "stated ambitions and coercive policies". He stressed that NATO had "stated the truth" and that Taiwan appreciated that NATO was "paying attention" to the threat posed by Beijing in the Indo-Pacific region.
13 Jul 2023
German politicians want to see "clear limits" when it comes to China's influence on universities in Germany. But so far, the call has gone unheeded.
12 Jul 2023
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has told some 80 countries that the drug fentanyl is likely to spread further than the US. Washington at least partly blames China, which did not attend the meeting.
10 Jul 2023
The US treasury secretary is in China on a trip aimed at calming tensions between the world’s largest economies.
9 Jul 2023
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is the latest US policymaker to head to China. Trade relations between the superpowers continue to unravel as Beijing announces limits to key gallium and germanium exports.
9 Jul 2023
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is to meet with Chinese leaders as US-China relations remain fraught. She said ahead of her visit that the two countries "can and need to find a way to live together."
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