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Exclusive: Five Eyes intelligence alliance builds coalition to counter China
The five nations in the world's leading intelligence-sharing network have been exchanging classified information on China's foreign activities with other like-minded countries since the start of the year, seven officials in four capitals said.
Calls grow for U.N. action on China's Muslim 're-education camps'
France and Germany have called on China to close "re-education camps" in its restive far western region of Xinjiang where up to one million Uighurs and other Muslims are thought to be held for political indoctrination as pressure grows for UN action.
Exit the Dragon? Germany gets tough on Chinese investment
A China-led wave of company acquisitions has seen Berlin grow leery of granting market access to foreign investors. But fears of an exodus of tech know-how are balanced by a desire to do business on the mainland.
Iran's foreign minister says China 'pivotal' to salvaging its nuclear deal
Iran's foreign minister said on Friday China was "pivotal" to salvaging a multilateral nuclear agreement for the Middle Eastern country after the United States pulled out of the pact earlier this year.
German Spy Chief Says China’s Tech Takeovers Are a Security Risk
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s top counterintelligence official said Chinese acquisitions of high-tech companies in Germany represent a potential national-security threat.
China's JD.com plans move into Europe: CEO tells German newspaper
Chinese e-commerce company JD.com plans to expand in Europe and aims to have finalised its strategy for entering the market by the end of the year, its chief executive told a German newspaper.
Trump's tariffs threaten global prosperity, warns Angela Merkel
US levies on European and Chinese goods may also break WTO rules, says German leader
EU pushes China on trade, saying it could open up if it wanted
China could open its economy if it wished, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Monday, with the European Union calling on countries to avoid a trade war even as pressure mounts on Beijing over its industrial policies.
In memory of Liu Xiaobo, a reading list
Writer, dissident, and Nobel peace laureate, Liu Xiaobo died of liver cancer in Chinese custody on July 13, 2017.
China's CATL to build its first European EV battery factory in Germany
Chinese battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd (CATL) will build its first production site in Europe in Germany, agreeing a major contract with BMW to supply lithium-ion batteries.
China's chickens need to lay a billion eggs a day. Here's how they're going to do it
Behind a row of sealed red incubator doors in a new facility in northern China, about 400,000 chicks are hatched every day, part of the rapidly modernizing supply chain in China's $37 billion egg industry, the world's biggest.
UK private equity firm ends Chinese aerospace sale after regulator probe
UK private equity firm Better Capital PCC Ltd's sale of airplane parts firm Northern Aerospace Ltd to a Chinese buyer has fallen through after regulators did not issue approval by Monday following a probe into national security concerns.
Tariffs on U.S.-made models will mean pricier BMWs in China
German luxury automaker BMW said on Friday that it will be unable to "completely absorb" a new Chinese 25 percent tariff on imported U.S.-made models and will have to raise prices on the vehicles it makes in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
China urged to give foreign companies a level playing field
China urged to give foreign companies a fair chance to compete with domestic firms
BMW signs battery order with China's CATL
BMW has awarded a contract worth just over a billion euros ($1.16 billion) to China's lithium battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd (CATL) , the German carmaker said on Thursday.
Germany Needs China to Save the Global Order from Trump
The U.S. president’s attacks on multilateralism may push Chancellor Merkel into an unlikely alliance with Beijing. Germany and the EU have to test ways to work with China in the absence of
Germany's Merkel to visit China May 24-25: spokeswoman
Chancellor Angela Merkel will fly to China next week for a two-day visit that includes talks with President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang, a government spokeswoman said on Friday.
China looks to Merkel visit to boost 'mutual trust' amid global trade concerns
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit China next week, Chinese officials said on Friday, at a time of rising global concern about protectionist trade measures undermining growth.
Red light: Ford facing hold-ups at China ports amid trade friction - sources
Ford Motor Co's imported vehicles are being held up at Chinese ports, three people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, underscoring how U.S. goods are facing increased customs scrutiny in China amid a tense trade stand-off.
Liu Xia, in Call From China, Tells of the Agony of Endless Captivity (Published 2018)
A recording of Ms. Liu, the widow of the Nobel Peace Prize recipient Liu Xiaobo, was released in the hope that China would end her house arrest and let her go to Germany.
