US trade representatives will travel to Beijing next week in a bid to resolve the remaining key points in talks to end the trade war with China, according to two senior US administration officials, reported the Financial Times. Robert Lighthizer, the US trade representative, and Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, are expected to meet with […]
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Using satellite capability, researchers from Tsinghua University monitored the intensity of night lights in more than 3,300 cities and towns in China between 2013 and 2016 and in 28% of cases, the lights had dimmed, said the South China Morning Post. China now has 938 shrinking cities, more than any other country in the world, […]
At the end of last year, China’s employment population shrank for the first time on record to 776 million, a fall of 540,000 from the year before, according to census data published by China’s National Bureau of Statistics, reports Caixin. For the seventh year in a row, the working-age population–people between 16 and 59–also reduced […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel hopes to reach an agreement with Beijing, promising that the two countries will not spy on one another so that Huawei will not have to be excluded from possibly building Germany’s 5G network, reports Reuters. “Merkel’s economic advisor Lars-Hendrik Roller was recently in China to negotiate about the agreement,” German weekly business […]
The United Arab Emirates, a key US ally in the region, has announced that it will roll out a 5G network developed by Huawei this year, putting it at odds with Washington which is rallying countries against using the Chinese telecoms firm. Huawei has struck a deal with the UAE’s state-controlled telecom provider Etisalat Group […]