The State of Southeast Asia: 2019 poll of more than 1,000 regional business experts showed that a large proportion are wary of China’s motivations behind its heightened investment through projects such as the Belt and Road Initiative, while confidence in the US has similarly weakened, the South China Morning Post reports. The report, conducted by […]
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The US State Department issued a warning to Americans thinking of travelling to China that they could face “coercive” exit bans employed by Beijing as the countries continue to face off over trade, the Financial Times reports. A statement said that detentions resulting from the exit bans could last “for years” and those arrested would […]
Members of the World Trade Organization are seeking to push through new rules limiting government interference in data used by multinational businesses, the Nikkei Asian Review reports, touching on a central issue in the dispute between the US and China. The group proposing the new bill, led by countries such as the US, Australia, Singapore, […]
China hopes that it can work alongside the US to put into action the “important consensus” reached at the G20 summit in November, President Xi Jinping told his US counterpart this weekend, suggesting greater efforts to make progress in thawing trade tensions. In a call to celebrate 40 years of diplomatic relations between the two […]
The Trump administration could be on the verge of signing an executive order prohibiting the sale of products made by China’s Huawei and ZTE, sources told Reuters, in what would be the US latest sign of pushback against growing Chinese influence in the telecoms space. The US has long held that the two companies are […]