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Xi says China’s prospects are bright but challenges severe
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Can financial turmoil in China play havoc with the rest of the world? It has already happened. On the first trading day of 2016, China’s central bank sent shockwaves around the world by sharply lowering…
China’s Xi says anti-graft campaign has ‘overwhelming momentum’
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s campaign against corruption has achieved “overwhelming momentum”, President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday at the start of a critical Communist Party congress expected to cement his authority. Xi’s speech kicks off…
China’s Communist Party congress begins in Beijing
These are external links and will open in a new window China’s biggest political event, the Communist Party congress, has begun in Beijing under tight security. Party leader and Chinese president Xi Jinping is addressing…
Administration does not brand China currency manipulator
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Tuesday once again declined to label China a currency manipulator, even though Donald Trump repeatedly pledged during last year’s presidential campaign that he would do so as soon as…
The human cost of China’s economic reforms
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China tries to reassure foreign companies, promises openness
He also tried to defuse concern about a technology plan dubbed “Made in China 2025” that calls for developing Chinese competitors in electric cars and other fields. Business groups say it would exclude foreign competitors…
