Tag: China

• Monday, November 19th 2018 - 19:52 UTC

  Technology and packaging help Chilean fruit exports conquer Chinese market

  

  The standardisation of products through technology advancements has helped Chilean fruit exporters conquer China as a destination, it was the reported.

• Monday, November 19th 2018 - 09:08 UTC

  Expectations Buenos Aires G 20 leaders' summit could soften US/China trade war, after APEC's failure

  

  An acrimonious meeting of world leaders in Papua New Guinea failed to agree Sunday on a final communiqué, highlighting widening divisions between global powers China and the U.S. It now seems that the next occasion will be in Buenos Aires in the framework of the G20 leaders summit when presidents Trump and Xi are expected to hold a bilateral meeting.

• Sunday, November 18th 2018 - 15:19 UTC

  Key Chinese nuclear weapons developer dies aged 100

  

  Cheng Kaijia, the nuclear physicist behind China's nuclear weapons programme, has died in Beijing at the age of 100, it was reported Saturday.

• Wednesday, November 14th 2018 - 10:29 UTC

  US and China trade talks ahead of Xi and Trump's meeting in Buenos Aires

  

  United States and Chinese negotiators have revived trade talks in the hopes of reaching a draft agreement before President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping meet face-to-face on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Argentina.

• Monday, November 12th 2018 - 07:11 UTC

  This year will again be positive for global cereal production, anticipates FAO

  

  The United Nations FAO has raised its forecast for global cereal production in 2018 to 2.601 million tons, primarily due to higher estimates for wheat production in Canada and China. Nonetheless, the new forecast remains 2.1 percent below the record level achieved in 2017.

• Saturday, November 10th 2018 - 09:16 UTC

  Argentina's central bank almost doubles currency swap with China

  

  Argentina’s central bank said it would nearly double its currency swap deal with China, bringing the total to 130 billion Yuan (US$ 18.7 billion), as Beijing looks to expand its influence in the recession-struck country. Central Bank President Guido Sandleris, who was in China finalizing the agreement, said that the deal for 70 billion Yuan would be expanded by 60 billion Yuan, according to a bank spokesman.

• Friday, November 9th 2018 - 08:41 UTC

  China exports and surplus remain strong while imports started to pick up

  

  China reported much stronger-than-expected exports for October as shippers rushed goods to the United States, its biggest trading partner, racing to beat higher tariff rates due to kick in at the start of next year. Import growth also defied forecasts for a slowdown, suggesting Beijing’s growth-boosting measures to support the cooling economy may be slowly starting to make themselves felt.

• Thursday, November 8th 2018 - 11:54 UTC

  Brazil president elect backtracks on China, Israel, and insists with the pensions' reform

  

  Brazil president-elect Jair Bolsonaro backtracked on some of his more controversial pledges promising to expand trade with China and rethink the idea of moving the country’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Bolsonaro is currently in Brasilia for various meetings with senior officials and transition arrangements.

• Thursday, November 8th 2018 - 08:30 UTC

  Macron calls on leaders for a “true European Army” to protect EU from China, Russia...and US

  

  French President Emmanuel Macron has warned that Europeans cannot be protected without a “true, European army”, as he marks the centenary of the World War One Armistice.

• Thursday, November 8th 2018 - 07:24 UTC

  US confirms “anti dumping” duties on Chinese aluminum products

  

  The U.S. Commerce Department on Wednesday said it would impose final anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties on Chinese common alloy aluminum sheet products of 96.3% to 176.2%. The decision marks the first time that final duties were issued in a trade remedy case initiated by the U.S. government since 1985.