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China's Xi, Germany's Merz stress ties to weather trade turmoil
BEIJING/BERLIN (Reuters) -Chinese President Xi Jinping and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in a call on Friday highlighted ...
U.S. and China Hold First Call Since Geneva. Why It’s a Good Sign for Trade Talks.
Any sign that the world's two largest economies are getting closer to brokering a trade deal should give stock markets a ...
China-US Trade Soars as Exporters Race to Hit Trade Truce Window
A temporary trade truce between the world’s two largest economies has sparked a knee-jerk bounce across China’s ports and ...
Exclusive: Taliban in talks with Russia, China for trade transactions in local currencies
The Taliban administration is in advanced talks with Russia for banks from both sanctions-hit economies to settle trade ...
US and China are already feuding again after unexpected trade truce
Just days after the United States and China declared a temporary truce over tariffs, tempers are already flaring: this time over the future of Beijing’s most advanced homegrown semiconductors.
China says the U.S. is screwing up trade talks with its move against Huawei
The Chinese government issued a blistering statement on Monday, accusing the Trump administration of undercutting ongoing ...
Analysts downgrade China's property price outlook in 2025 as trade tensions pose fresh risk: Reuters poll
Weakness in China's property sector is expected to persist this year with home prices falling nearly 5% and set to remain ...
China isn’t getting rid of its controls over rare earths, despite trade truce with US
Despite a 90-day truce in its trade war with the United States, China appears to be maintaining tight control over its rare earth exports – preserving a key source of leverage in future negotiations ...
China's economy slows in April as trade war blues hit retail sales, housing and investment
Key economic indicators show China's economy slowing somewhat in April, with retail sales, property and investment coming in ...
Peter Schiff blasts US-China trade deal — says the Asian nation won by calling Trump’s ‘bluff’ on 145% tariffs
Economist Peter Schiff recently took to X to blast the Trump administration for conceding the trade war without meaningful ...
U.S. and China Agree to Temporarily Slash Tariffs in Bid to Defuse Trade War
The White House backed off from the steepest levies, as the costs of an all-out trade war with China threatened global ...
Trade talks bog down as countries — and White House — race to meet July deadline
President Donald Trump promised that his administration would be able to make quick trade deals with more than 50 trading ...