Smithfield Foods wants to be seen as America’s pork champion after more than a decade under Chinese ownership. Its goal may rely on how the Trump administration manages trade ties with Beijing.
Monthly Archives For January 2025
Column-China’s iron ore and coal imports ease in January, but prices diverge: Russell
China’s imports of iron ore and seaborne coal are on track for a soft start to the year, with January arrivals declining to multi-month lows. However, the price trends for the two key bulk commodities…
Top 10 products Nigeria imports from China
Nigeria and China share a trade relationship, with China supplying a significant portion of Nigeria’s imported …
Chinese brands will double their Australian market share this year – analysts
Industry group forecasts one-in-five cars sold in Australia in 2025 will come from Chinese brands, doubling their current market share.
Why blocking China’s DeepSeek from using US AI may be difficult
Top White House advisers this week expressed alarm that China’s DeepSeek may have benefited from a method that allegedly piggybacks off the advances of U.S. rivals called “distillation.” …
Swatch posts steep drop in sales and profit as China struggles
Swatch Group’s sales and profit fell during 2024, the Swiss watchmaker said on Thursday, as improvements in the United States and Japan failed to offset a steep downturn in China.
China’s Search for a New Economic Engine
China is shifting its economic focus away from real estate towards new core industries like electric vehicles, robotics, and semiconductors.
China’s iron ore and coal imports ease in January, but prices diverge: Russell
China’s imports of iron ore and seaborne coal are on track for a soft start to the year, with January arrivals declining to multi-month lows.
DeepSeek Panic Live Updates: Nvidia Stock Drops 4%—As Trump Reportedly Mulls China Chip Sale Restrictions
Nvidia shares’ 9% recovery Tuesday was the second-best day in terms of market cap added for any company ever—but the company faced another selloff Wednesday.
Did Covid originate in Wuhan lab? Calls for probe into ‘China virus’ grow in US
It was on January 30, 2020, that WHO declared Covid-19 a global public health emergency. The novel coronavirus would end up killing nearly seven million people. Five years on, and with Donald Trump …
Trump Commerce pick slams China: ‘Stop using our tools to compete’
Howard Lutnick, Trump’s nominee to lead the Commerce Department, slammed China for allegedly using U.S.-manufactured technology to compete with American artificial intelligence (AI) firms …
David Sacks issues stark warning about China’s AI advancements: ‘Hot on our heels’
Trump crypto and AI ‘czar’ David Sacks discusses China’s DeepSeek model raising alarm bells in the United States on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’ …
Trump commerce nominee says Canada, Mexico can avoid tariffs, vows stronger China tech curbs
President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Commerce Department, Howard Lutnick, said on Wednesday that Canada and Mexico can avoid looming U.S. tariffs if they act swiftly to close their borders to fentanyl,
