China’s official Xinhua News Agency said eight more people were killed in Guangdong and one person remained missing. Typhoon Hato roared into the area Wednesday with winds of up to 160 kilometres per hour. It…
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China accuses Trump of ‘sabotaging’ world trade
China is escalating the war of words with President Trump over … and trade relationship,” Commerce Ministry spokesman Gao Feng said Thursday at a regular news briefing. Trump has so far failed to follow through…
Forget NAFTA, the roaring silence around trade talks with China is even more troubling
As Canadians digest a stream of news and punditry about NAFTA renegotiations, there’s another trade relationship — possibly more consequential for our future — that’s being forged in comparative silence. The second China-Canada Foreign Ministers…
China says will use all necessary means to defend interests against U.S. trade probe
“We will take all the necessary measures to resolutely defend the interests of China and Chinese firms” in the face of the unilateral U.S. actions, commerce ministry official Gao Feng told reporters at a regular…
12 dead as strong typhoon floods Macau, southern China
China’s official Xinhua News Agency said four more people were killed in Guangdong and one person remained missing. Typhoon Hato roared into the area Wednesday with winds of up to 160 kilometers (100 miles) per…
China tells U.S. that Pakistan’s security concerns must be respected
BEIJING (Reuters) – The United States must value Pakistan’s role in Afghanistan and respect its security concerns, China’s top diplomat Yang Jiechi told U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in a phone call, according to…
Exclusive: In China, the Party’s push for influence inside foreign firms stirs fears
The presence of party units has long been a fact of doing business in China, where party organizations exist in nearly 70 percent of some 1.86 million privately owned companies, the official China Daily reported…
China’s buzzing sharing economy may not be real, but the money sure is
Inspired by the huge success of companies that make a business out of sharing cars and housing, China is going through a bout of a sharing boom, with increasing number of seemingly shareable products and…
Air China: Official Passenger Air Transportation Services Partner for Beijing 2022
BEIJING, Aug. 23, 2017 /CNW/ — Air China Limited (referred to below as “Air China”) has become the Official Partner of the Beijing Organising Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (“Beijing 2022”)…
China’s COFCO considers sale of Nidera in divestment effort: sources
Any sale would mark an abrupt change in strategy, as COFCO looks to restructure its business as part of wide-ranging reforms of China’s state-owned companies. Two sources say COFCO has tapped investment bank Morgan Stanley…
Beijing’s ‘lawfare’ against dissent in Hong Kong unites fractious opposition
(CNN)In one of the largest protests since 2014’s pro-democracy Umbrella Movement, 22,000 protesters took to the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday. The immediate catalyst for their protest was the jailing last week of three…
China urges US to drop new sanctions on Chinese companies
China on Wednesday urged the U.S. to withdraw new sanctions it imposed on Chinese companies that Washington says are supporting North Korea as it carries out increasingly ambitious missile tests. On Tuesday, the Trump administration…
Western brand, Chinese characteristics: Club Med at Guilin
My wife and I were experienced China travellers but Club Med newbies, and we were curious about how the brand would translate there. The country is a relatively new but expanding market for the company,…