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From rugby to painting, China using global stage to diminish Taiwan
All Taiwan wanted to do was to host rugby teams from around the region for a series of matches.
Chinese city urges those 'poisoned by extremism', who follow conservative Islam to confess crimes
A city in China's far-western Xinjiang region has ordered people who are "poisoned by extremism, terrorism and separatism", in contact with overseas terror groups or act in a conservative Islamic manner, to turn themselves in to authorities.
China hoped for a soft power win at APEC, instead Xi Jinping left dissatisfied | CNN
With the presidents of the United States and Russia staying home, it seemed Chinese President Xi Jinping would dominate this weekend at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit and increase his country's influence in the Pacific.
Is China suffocating the most vital part of its economy amid US trade war?
In the fourth part of our series marking the 40th anniversary of China’s ‘reform and opening up’, Xie Yu and Liu Yujing find Chinese executives’ confidence at rock bottom amid plunging growth and an increasingly intrusive state sector.
China and US to bypass Washington for trade war talks
The last-minute change of venue was intended to help prepare the ground for a Xi-Trump meeting at the G20 summit.
China’s former trade chief criticises ‘unwise’ tactics in tariff war
Former minister says targeting US soybeans from the start was a ‘political’ decision that had not been properly thought through.
Here’s who wins and also loses in US-China trade war: Vietnam
Trump’s trade war is boosting Vietnam by driving Chinese firms south, but the rising labour costs this has caused are a mixed blessing. What’s more, a greater Chinese presence could put Vietnam in Washington’s crosshairs.
The trade war is pushing business out of China, but not into America | CNN Business
US tariffs in the trade war are prompting companies to move some production out of China, but it's not going where President Trump would prefer.
New blow to China as African swine fever found in wild boar
China's efforts to stem the spread of African swine fever were dealt a fresh blow on Friday when the agricultural ministry confirmed it had found the first case in a wild boar, deepening a three-month-old crisis for the world's top pork producer.
China’s US$3 trillion dollar debt ‘could trigger a financial crisis’
Property developers and other companies and investors that have borrowed dollar-denominated debt at low US interest rates are now facing repayment problems due to Federal Reserve rate increases and a stronger greenback.
Locked in a trade war, China and US try to rally support in Asia
Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang and Mike Pence make the regional rounds as their countries compete for influence.
China’s deleveraging campaign takes a toll on its private sector
An upswing in the Chinese equities market can’t disguise the beating its private firms have taken due to government efforts to rein in debt. Furthermore, these worrying signs appear unlikely to ease as long as central banks dial back their stimulus measures.
Beijing to cushion – not stop – yuan decline in long run
Beijing will resist downward pressure on the yuan “for now”, although moderate depreciation in the Chinese currency is probably still on the cards, according to analysts.
China's Ruyi, pretender to LVMH's throne, plots more 'affordable luxury' deals
China's acquisitive apparel firm Shandong Ruyi is targeting more global deals involving "affordable luxury" brands, under a push to establish the first high-end Chinese fashion empire to eventually challenge behemoth LVMH .
China postpones lifting of ban on trade of tiger and rhino parts
China has postponed the lifting of a ban on the trade of rhino horn and tiger parts for medicine and other uses, the government said on Monday, after a storm of protest from conservation groups over a plan to water down the decades-old prohibition.
Honda to shift production of SUV to China from US amid trade war
Japanese automaker aims to avoid higher auto tariffs
Labor activists missing in China after suspected coordinated raids
At least 12 Chinese labor activists have gone missing in recent days, in what sources close to them believe was a coordinated effort by authorities to silence the vocal group, most of them university students or recent graduates.
China's stealth fighters show off missile payload | CNN
The Chinese air force saved the big guns for last at its biennial Zhuhai air show, flying its new stealth fighters with full missile loads Sunday for the first time in a public display.
Johnson & Johnson still bullish on China even as trade war rages on
The company will open two new manufacturing plants with a combined investment of US$580 million in 2019
African swine fever suspected to be in animal feed in China
(This Nov 11 story corrects headline and text throughout to say case of disease in feed was suspected, not confirmed. Removes paragraph, bullet saying it is first reported contamination of feed supply.)