Talks between China and the United States to resolve their bruising trade war will continue next week in Washington, with both sides saying this week’s negotiations in Beijing made good progress. Stil… ( read original…
Monthly Archives For February 2019
China says trade talks to continue in Washington next week
BEIJING — With a March 2 deadline looming, U.S. and Chinese negotiators will meet in Washington next week for more talks on a tariff war over Beijing’s technology ambitions, China’s government announ… ( read original…
China c.bank says has not resorted to “flood” of stimulus
BEIJING, Feb 15 (Reuters) – China’s macro leverage ratio is still stable and the central bank has not opened the credit floodgate, a central bank official said on Friday, after official data showed re… (…
China banks throw open spigots in January, lend record 3.23 trillion yuan
Demand for credit picked up sharply in the corporate sector, followed by the household sector, according to data released by the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) on Friday. Corporate loans jumped to 2.58 … (…
China’s government tells banks to ‘increase financial support’ for private firms to aid slowing economy
The key policy guidelines, for example, ask China’s central bank to lower the required reserve ratio so that banks will have more funds available to lend. On Friday, data showed that new yuan loans in…
China’s banks throw open spigots in January, lend record 3.23 trillion yuan
Demand for credit picked up sharply in the corporate sector, followed by the household sector, according to data released by the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) on Friday. Corporate loans jumped … ( read original…
U.S.-China Trade Talks Set to Wrap Up With Few Signs of Progress
The U.S. and China were scrambling on Friday to produce a memorandum of understanding that would pave the way for a meeting between the two presidents, the Financial Times reported, citing people brie… ( read…
China ride-hailing giant Didi to lay off 15 percent staff this year: source
It will continue to hire for safety technology, product engineering, and international expansion with the aim of maintaining its overall employee count, the source added. A Didi spokeswoman … ( read original story …)
US, China hold 2nd day of talks with no tariff decision
Business groups and economists say this week’s talks are too brief to resolve a sprawling dispute over Beijing’s technology ambitions. They say China’s goal is to persuade Trump to push back the March … (…
Explainer: What’s at stake in U.S.-China trade talks
After years of steadily rising U.S. trade deficits with China and U.S. complaints that Beijing has systematically obtained American intellectual property and trade secrets through coercion and … ( read original story …)
How China Brings Us Together
It’s stealing. A commission led by retired Adm. Dennis Blair and former U.S. ambassador to China Jon Huntsman estimated in 2017 that the annual loss to the U.S. economy from Chinese intellectual prope… ( read…
Hong Kong office space rents ‘to further soften as US-China trade war lingers’
Other property consultancies released similarly gloomy outlooks … due to some mainland firms either downsizing or looking for replacements,” he said. US-China trade war could put a huge damper on Ch… ( read original story…
What’s at stake in U.S.-China trade talks?
After years of steadily rising U.S. trade deficits with China and U.S. complaints that Beijing has systematically obtained American intellectual property and trade secrets through coercion and outrigh… ( read original story …)