Category: China
Qu Dongyu becomes first Chinese to head UN food agency FAO
Qu Dongyu on Sunday became the first Chinese national to be elected to head the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation, clinching the post in the first round of voting. [...]
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Report: Trump Admin Considering Ordering All US 5G Gear Be Made Outside of China
Donald Trump’s administration is considering issuing requirements that would mandate all 5G telecommunications equipment installed in the US be manufactured outside [...]
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A Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be a bloody, logistical nightmare
Roaring out of the sky, an F-16V fighter jet lands smoothly to rearm and refuel on an unremarkable freeway in rural Taiwan, surrounded by rice paddies. In different [...]
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FedEx misses delivery of Huawei package to US; China paper says retaliation threatened
FedEx Corp said on Sunday an operational error prevented a Huawei Technologies package from being delivered to the United States, just weeks after the US delivery company [...]
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Chinese agricultural official picked to lead UN food agency
Qu Dongyu, China’s deputy agricultural minister, was elected Sunday as the new director general of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, the first person from a [...]
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US explores requiring domestic 5G equipment to be made outside China: WSJ
US President Donald Trump is looking to require next-generation 5G cellular equipment used in the United States to be designed and manufactured outside China, the Wall Street [...]
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Closing arguments set for missing Chinese scholar case
Closing arguments are set for the federal death penalty trial of a former University of Illinois doctoral student charged with kidnapping and killing a 26-year-old visiting [...]
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Carrefour sells 80 per cent of its Chinese retail operations to Suning for 4.8 billion yuan
Shares of Suning.com jumped 3.6 per cent on Monday after the Chinese electronics retailer and e-commerce giant agreed to buy an 80 per cent stake in the Chinese operations of [...]
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Carrefour sells 80 per cent of its Chinese retail operations to Suning for 4.8 billion yuan
Shares of Suning.com jumped 3.6 per cent on Monday after the Chinese electronics retailer and e-commerce giant agreed to buy an 80 per cent stake in the Chinese operations of [...]
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Beijing can take a tougher stance in trade talks with US at G20, Chinese economists say
China’s strong economic resilience means trade negotiators will be able to take a harder line during upcoming talks with Washington, according to researchers at a [...]
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China Southern Airlines eyes world domination as it puts plans to join Oneworld on the back burner
China Southern Airlines wants to become the world’s biggest carrier in the next three years and does not plan to seek an alliance with any of the industry’s major [...]
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Reject or embrace? How Beijing will react to Facebook’s Libra
Facebook’s plans to launch a cryptocurrency could usher in a new type of “currency competition” and force China to rethink how it deals with the realities [...]
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China confirms President Xi Jinping’s three-day trip to Japan this week
President Xi Jinping will attend the G20 summit in Osaka this week, China’s foreign ministry said on Sunday, confirming his first visit to Japan since taking office in [...]
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White House considers banning all 5G technology made in China amid trade tensions
The US is considering a requirement that next-generation 5G cellular technology for domestic use be made outside of China, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing [...]
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China eyes front against protectionism at G20
China said Monday it would seek backing for free trade and multilateralism at the G20 summit this week as it denounced protectionism while it fights a tariffs war with the [...]
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