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  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    Global Economy
    South Korea emerges as a top US investor as China tensions escalate

    US project commitments from South Korean companies totalled $21.5bn last year, more than any other country

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    The Hyundai electric-vehicle and battery manufacturing plant under construction in Ellabell, Georgia
  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    US-China trade dispute
    US and Japan near deal to curb chip technology exports to China

    Potential agreement comes despite fears Beijing will choke critical minerals supplies in response

    A close-up of a hand with blue gloves holding a chip fabricated in China by Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp.
  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    News in-depthSouth Korean business & finance
    From steel to kimchi, South Korean exporters face flood of Chinese rivals

    Overproduction, tariffs and weak demand increase competition with a glut of low-cost goods

    Workers wash cabbage in a kimchi factory in Yeoncheon, South Korea
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
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    Yen strengthens past ¥140 against dollar ahead of rate decisions

    Japanese currency rises as US Fed prepares to cut rates this week

    Pedestrians in central Tokyo
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    Gideon Rachman
    China, America and a global struggle for power and influence

    The whole world risks losing from the rivalry between Washington and Beijing

    A James Ferguson illustration of a bullet train passing through a landscape at dusk with Mount Fiji in the background, a bald eagle hovering above and some stars in the sky in the shape of the Chinese national flag
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    Shein faces greater political scrutiny ahead of planned London IPO

    Labour MP calls for UK government to ban imported products made by forced labour in Chinese region of Xinjiang

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  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    IPOs
    Hong Kong market still feeling the chill as aircon maker Midea floats

    $4bn secondary listing is exchange’s biggest offering since 2021 but does not signal a revival, say analysts

    Employees work on an air conditioner production line at a Midea factory in Wuhan, in central China’s Hubei province
  • Saturday, 14 September, 2024
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    China’s economic activity falters as challenges mount

    Slow momentum boosts expectations Beijing will need to boost stimulus

    People stroll at a shopping mall in Beijing
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    US-China trade dispute
    US targets trade loophole used by ecommerce groups Temu and Shein

    Biden administration seeks to slow flood of cheap Chinese goods with proposed new rules around ‘de minimis’ exemption

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  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    The Long ViewKatie Martin
    China out in the cold for foreign investors

    Sentiment towards the country’s stock markets has become increasingly pessimistic

  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Ford Motor Co
    Ford to restart India car production 3 years after quitting

    US automaker plans to use mothballed Tamil Nadu plant to build vehicles for export

    A sign for the ‘Ganges Ford’ showroom in the Indian city of Kolkata
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Chinese society
    China to raise retirement age for first time since 1978

    Beijing battles demographic crisis and pressure on pension system by keeping population in workforce for longer

    Two elderly men play Chinese chess at a park in Beijing
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    News in-depthIndian society
    Rise of the Indian tourist: travel industry pivots to next big market

    Higher incomes encourage more people to travel, echoing similar trend in China

    Two Indian tourists, dressed in colorful traditional attire, look out from a high observation deck in the Burj Khalifa, Dubai. The cityscape below features numerous skyscrapers and buildings.
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    EU-China relations
    EU rejects Chinese EV makers’ bid to avert hefty tariffs

    Commission dismisses offers to adjust pricing of allegedly subsidised vehicles

    BYD electric cars for export are parked in rows, waiting to be loaded on to a ship at a port in Shandong province, China
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
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    Export clampdowns and a smartphone face-off Premium content

    The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

    People walk past Huawei Mate XT
  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    Inside BusinessChris Kay
    Pressures mount in India’s delivery market for anything, anytime

    Reliance and Google-backed Dunzo reported to have cut staff as competition intensifies

    A Dunzo delivery driver waits with an order near a closed gate on the outskirts of New Delhi
  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    EU-China relations
    Spain’s Sánchez calls on EU to ‘reconsider’ Chinese EV tariffs

    Beijing has stepped up lobbying ahead of Brussels vote in escalating trade war

    Pedro  Sánchez speaks during a press conference in China
  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    Chinese business & finance
    Foreign companies hit ‘tipping point’ in China

    EU chamber of commerce warns Chinese market barriers and slow growth are prompting businesses to look elsewhere

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  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    Inside BusinessEdward White
    Foreign carmakers also have a China overcapacity problem

    None predicted just how fast China’s own industry would develop in the age of EVs

    EV cars are pictured inside BYD’s first electric vehicle factory in Southeast Asia
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    Chinese economy
    China urged to spend up to $1.4tn to battle deflation

    Estimates underline scale of challenge facing Beijing as it seeks to reboot economy

    People look at the skyline from a viewing platform in a mall in Beijing’s central business district
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    Bangladesh
    US plans economic talks with Bangladesh’s interim leader Muhammad Yunus

    Washington delegation hopes to encourage reforms that will restore economic growth

    Muhammad Yunus signs a document taking the oath of office as head of Bangladesh’s interim government in Dhaka on August 8
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    Kimberly Clausing
    Forget tariffs — fixing ‘America last’ tax policy would help more with offshoring

    Nationalist trade policy is rooted in misdiagnosis. There is a more obvious problem

    Democratic presidential nominee and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris
  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Trump escalates tariff threat in vow to protect dollar

    Ex-president’s latest broadside warns countries to stick with US currency in trades or face 100% levy

    Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Mosinee, Wisconsin
  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    World Trade Organization
    WTO claims protectionism will widen wealth gap

    Political backlash against globalisation risks derailing progress in raising incomes in poorer countries

    A container ship in Long Beach, California, US
  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    Chinese economy
    Weak China prices boost deflation fears

    Concerns grow that deflationary forces are taking root in world’s second-biggest economy

    People stroll through a shopping mall in Beijing
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