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US-China trade war

Hong Kong is counting on investment. Photo: Shutterstock
Hong Kong economy

Editorial | Hong Kong is counting on innovative investment

The HKIC has funded 80 start-ups and projects. These deals have come at a critical time for the city as it builds itself up as a hi-tech centre.

US-China relations

Opinion | Why domestic demand is China’s best response to Trump’s tariff attack

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China trade

What’s eating at Guangdong? For China’s economic champ, the hits keep coming

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US-China relations

Editorial | Metals ban by China reminds US two can play at costly game

Action by Beijing follows restrictions on semiconductor exports by Washington ahead of the return of Donald Trump.

Employees of Lanzhou Hongbin New Energy Development work at the graphitization furnace, which heats graphite to high temperatures to improve its physical structure. Beijing placed a stringent review process on exports of the material, used in batteries and fuel cells. Photo: Xinhua
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Outside In | Trump’s destructive impact on world trade could take decades to unravel

The president-elect is doubling down on policies that did not serve the US well during his first term in the White House.

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China trade

China cutting e-commerce red tape to ease export of small packages, support jobs

New policies aim to shore up China’s competitiveness in global manufacturing and e-commerce while alleviating worrisome youth-unemployment pressure.

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China trade

‘In China for China’: global firms go local as trade, tech tensions ramp up

Many businesses are adopting an ‘in China for China’ strategy to stay in the lucrative market while avoiding geopolitical disruptions.

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Global tech firms in China are making their supply chains more localised to protect against unpredictable changes in trade restrictions. Photo: AFP
US-China relations

Trump’s export controls hurting China could rankle US allies: analysts

Sanctions targeting Beijing’s hi-tech progress anticipated as report finds Washington has increasingly used such mechanisms in recent years.

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Banking & finance

The View | Trump could upend the US economy just as China is recovering

Trump’s economic strategy could change narratives not only about US markets but Chinese ones as well.

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Business of climate change

China urges tie-ups for solar firms to navigate tariffs, trade tensions

Commerce ministry official asks companies to seek partnerships in belt and road countries and invest in solar power projects.

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A worker checks solar photovoltaic modules used in solar panels at a factory in Haian in eastern Jiangsu province. Photo: AFP
China trade

Will Trump’s threats push China and Japan closer together?

Relations between the Asian powers have become highly strained in recent years, but officials from both sides are now talking up the value of cooperation.

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Japan and China have greater incentives to deepen economic ties amid rising global uncertainties. Photo: Reuters
Diplomacy

Opinion | Trump’s victory a reminder the ‘end of history’ remains far away

As countries respond to global crises and challenges to multilateralism, a new era has dawned that cannot be understood using old precepts.

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US-China relations

Trump picks Peter Navarro, US-China trade war architect, for senior role

Beijing-sanctioned economist who spent time in federal prison tasked with advancing White House agendas on ‘manufacturing, tariff and trade’.

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US-China relations

How will China policy go after Trump overhauls the US government?

Planned purge means loss of institutional knowledge and working-level communications, but there are upsides, analysts say.

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Illustration: Henry Wong
China trade

‘Never a good choice’: China’s retaliation for US curbs may be just starting

An expected escalation of the US-China trade war, and the Chinese public’s demand for a response, could light a fire under Beijing’s policymakers, former PBOC head says.

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Fresh comments from former central bank governor Yi Gang have painted a worrisome picture of relations between China and the US over the next four years. Photo: AP
US-China relations

Opinion | China knows how to handle Trump 2.0

When future historians look back on China’s rise, Trump’s trade war might well be viewed as having helped to prevent a Chinese crisis.

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US-China relations

Chinese academics grapple with the idea of a rising East and a declining West

The notion faded from discussion for a while, but it continues to resonate.

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US-China relations

Opinion | Why no country is safe from Trump’s pro-tariff agenda

Trump’s challenge to global trading norms fits with his agenda of undermining consensus and punishing US trading partners individually.

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Malaysia

Malaysia tech firms set to ‘act aggressively’ over Trump’s tariff hikes

Local firms in Malaysia’s crucial tech sector are looking at options ranging from expansion to the US to securing new clients.

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Hong Kong economy

Letters | Foreign talent can’t be Hong Kong’s only answer to labour crunch

Readers discuss the need for local solutions to city’s ageing labour force, ways to enliven the harbourfront, the US-China prisoner swap, and what Trump’s MAGA movement means.

US-China relations

WTO boss urges middle powers to defend global system ahead of US-China trade war

Deepening fragmentation looms with Donald Trump’s return to White House and joint diplomacy needed, says re-elected Nigerian economist.

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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the World Trade Organization’s director general, speaks at a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland, on November 29, 2024. Photo: AFP
US-China relations

US importers race to prepare for Trump’s threatened tariffs

Port customers are said to ask: ‘How much cargo can I bring in before warehouses start busting at the seams?’.

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Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen
US-China relations

Trump vs TikTok ban, American defence spending push: 7 US-China relations reads

From US-India relations to visa woes for Chinese tech workers, here are highlights from the SCMP’s overseas correspondents in November 2024.

US-China relations

Beijing mulls options as China hawk Rubio awaits top US diplomat post

China has choices to counter confrontation from Trump’s pick for secretary of state, but experts say broader challenge is next cabinet’s hardline posturing.

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China economy

Opinion | What China can do to make the best of an escalating US trade war

Beijing should shift the engine of economic growth from exports to consumption with bolder monetary and fiscal measures.

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US-China relations

Biden takes a last aim at China’s hi-tech ambitions with new chip restrictions

Sweeping rules target Chinese access to US-origin and foreign-made products using high-bandwidth memory technologies.

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The US has announced a new list of Chinese companies that American makers of semiconductor tools cannot supply. Image: Reuters
China trade

US dims Southeast Asia detour for China’s solar products with tariffs

US Department of Commerce imposes preliminary anti-dumping duties on solar cells and modules from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.

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Malaysia

Malaysia urges Chinese firms to avoid ‘rebadging’ products to dodge US tariffs

Washington is set to restrict exports to Chinese semiconductor manufacturers and certain chipmaking equipment from Malaysia, and Singapore.

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US-China trade war
Breaking news and analysis on the US-China trade war, its history and timeline, and the impact on the global economy.
last updated:
9 September, 2024
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