Tag: China

• Saturday, December 9th 2023 - 09:57 UTC

  Moody's downgrades China's debt; Beijing insists “unnecessary to worry”

  

  Credit risk agency Moody's is warning about growing problems with the Chinese economy, and has cut its outlook on government-s debt to negative from stable. China has become the world's second largest economy and the main trading partner, among others of South American countries.

• Saturday, November 18th 2023 - 10:42 UTC

  Linking the gov't to drug trafficking is serious, Lacalle warns

  

  On his last full day in the country before leaving for China, Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou criticized opposition leaders for suggesting he was involved in drug trafficking, which the Marset scandal that led to the resignation of several ministers earlier this month would allegedly prove.

• Saturday, November 11th 2023 - 10:12 UTC

  APEC: No major breakthrough expected from Biden-Xi meeting

  

  San Francisco is finalizing its arrangements for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit during which a key meeting between Presidents Joseph Biden of the United States and Xi Jinping of China is expected to take place on Nov. 15. Xi and Biden will get together to discuss a range of “potentially contentious” topics including the need for military-to-military dialogue.

• Friday, November 10th 2023 - 10:35 UTC

  UK “must expand the Blue Belt” in Overseas Territories to shield the Antarctic from Chinese industrial fishing

  

  By Sir Oliver Heald (*) The UK’s Blue Belt Programme for ocean conservation in our Overseas Territories is one of the Conservative Party’s biggest environmental achievements of the past thirteen years.

• Wednesday, November 1st 2023 - 08:58 UTC

  Brazil hopeful of de-globalization, as US/China technology clash escalates

  

  Brazil did not enjoy the globalization process that started in the 1980s to its fullest potential. Still, it may have a second chance now amid the current de-globalization process – essentially an adjustment of globalization.

• Friday, October 20th 2023 - 10:36 UTC

  China and Brazil should join forces, Xi Jinping tells House Speaker

  

  Chinese President Xi Jinping told Brazilian Lower House Speaker Arthur Lira in Beijing Friday that their countries should firmly support each other in the face of “a tumultuous world.” Xi also insisted the BRICS partners were the two largest developing nations on the planet.

• Thursday, October 19th 2023 - 10:41 UTC

  Blue dollar plummets in Argentina

  

  The “blue” (a euphemism for “black market”) dollar plunged on Wednesday, closing at AR$ 885/905 (buy/sell), down from AR$ 985 the previous day, after the extension of the swap with China was announced and raids on illegal exchange parlors known as “cuevas” (caves) intensified, leading to new arrests, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

• Wednesday, October 18th 2023 - 08:57 UTC

  Argentine President has busy agenda in China

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández met with the head of the New Development Bank (NDB), Dilma Rousseff, to advance the South American country's accession to the BRICS financial institution.

• Tuesday, October 17th 2023 - 09:29 UTC

  Members of Chilean delegation in China test positive for Covid-19

  

  Various members of the Chilean delegation touring China ahead of the III Forum of the Belt and Road International Cooperation have tested positive for Covid-19 although President Gabriel Boric Font's results came back negative. All those infected will begin a 5-day isolation as per Chilean sanitary protocols, it was reported.

• Tuesday, October 17th 2023 - 09:13 UTC

  Argentine President starts holding meetings in Shanghai

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández held meetings in Shanghai with businessmen and local authorities ahead of his participation at the Third Belt and Road Forum to which he was invited by Chinese leader Xi Jinping.