Tag: Xi Jinping

• Thursday, April 18th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  China's growth stabilizes 6.4% year-on-year in first quarter

  

  The growth of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in China stabilized 6.4% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2019, despite falling global demand and the trade war with the United States. The figure was announced on Wednesday by the National Bureau of Statistics (BNS), along with other rather optimistic indicators on the health of the world's second largest economy.

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• Wednesday, March 27th 2019 - 08:47 UTC

  China orders 300 jets from Airbus during Xi's visit to Paris

  

  Airbus has secured an order from China for 300 jets, in a deal estimated to be worth tens of billions of dollars. An agreement to purchase A320 and A350 XWB aircraft was signed during a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to Paris.

• Saturday, March 23rd 2019 - 08:45 UTC

  Italy establishing closer links with China, plans to sign Silk Road project

  

  Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Rome at the start of a whistle stop European tour amid growing Western unease over the economic giant's new Silk Road project. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is to sign a memorandum of understanding with Mr. Xi on Saturday for Italy to join the US$1 trillion Belt and Road Initiative, the first G7 member to do so.

• Monday, March 18th 2019 - 08:36 UTC

  Chinese president Xi on state visits to Italy , Monaco and France

  

  Chinese President Xi Jinping will travel to Italy, Monaco and France this week, the foreign ministry said on Monday, with Rome expected to join his global trade infrastructure program despite reservations in other European countries.

• Tuesday, March 5th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  World markets fall as China cuts its economic growth target

  

  Asian shares stepped back on Tuesday after China cut its economic growth target and pledged measures to support the economy amid growing challenges from rising debt and a dispute over trade and technology with the United States. Australian shares dropped 0.6% while South Korea's Kospi lost 0.5%. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan dipped 0.2% and Japan's Nikkei dropped 0.3%.

• Tuesday, February 26th 2019 - 09:07 UTC

  Trump anticipates a “signing summit” with China's Xi: trade agreement “very, very close”

  

  US President Donald Trump said on Monday he expects to hold a “signing summit” with China’s President Xi Jinping to seal a trade deal, since negotiators are “very, very close” to an agreement. Cheering global stock markets, the new comments confirm the dispute will not ratchet up immediately, averting an even bigger impact on the global economy. 

• Monday, February 25th 2019 - 08:58 UTC

  US/China trade talks make “substantial progress”; Trump delays deadline for more tariffs

  

  The United States is delaying a planned increase of tariffs on more than US$200 billion in Chinese exports after “substantial progress” made in trade talks, President Donald Trump said on Sunday. Trump also said he planned to hold a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping at his Florida estate Mar-a-Lago to ink a deal.

• Saturday, February 16th 2019 - 11:30 UTC

  China/US trade talks break down; Washington warns “very difficult issues” remain unresolved

  

  Trade talks between the US and China have broken up without a deal, with the US warning that “very difficult issues” remain unresolved. The talks in China this week were aimed at securing a new deal before further US tariffs are imposed on 1 March. China said negotiations would now continue in the US next week.

• Friday, February 8th 2019 - 10:10 UTC

  Trade deal: Trump said no meeting with Xi before the March first deadline

  

  President Donald Trump said on Thursday he did not plan to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping before a March 1 deadline set by the two countries to achieve a trade deal.

• Friday, February 1st 2019 - 09:56 UTC

  Summit with Xi, “soon”, should seal “the biggest deal ever made” forecasts Trump

  

  U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping soon to try to seal a comprehensive trade deal as Trump and his top trade negotiator both cited substantial progress in two days of high-level talks.