Now, however, he seems welcome once again. On February 17th Mr Ma and a handful of other entrepreneurs met at a symposium in ...

At the Monday meeting, Xi urged the executives to "show their talent" and pledged to support private businesses.

The meeting sends a “very clear signal of top-level support” to the private sector entrepreneurs, Peiqian Liu, Asia economist ...

T he ink had barely dried on Donald Trump’s order to impose a 10% tariff on imports from China before its leader, Xi Jinping, ...

China and America are also waging a bitter battle of ideas. China defends authoritarianism, whereas America, at least until ...

Foodstuffs like theirs were not affected by China’s countermeasures against the 10% levy on Chinese imports that had been ...

Bullies are often told to pick on someone their own size. Donald Trump has just followed that advice. After America’s president threatened to start a damaging new trade war with China, Canada an ...

I T SOUNDS ODD, but hints keep piling up that President Donald Trump is tempted by a big, beautiful deal with China’s Xi ...

China’s announcement on January 17th that its economy had grown by an estimated 5% in 2024, right on target, was greeted with widespread disbelief on the country’s social media. “It feels ...