BEIJING — China says it’s girded for a trade war with the U.S. and can give as good as it gets, but behind the official bravado lies a deep unease over trade friction with Washington.…
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BEIJING | China rejects ‘blackmail’ on eve of US tariff hike
BEIJING —China rejected “threats and blackmail” ahead of a threatened U.S. tariff hike, striking a defiant stance Thursday in a dispute companies worry could flare into a full-blown trade war and chil… ( read original…
BEIJING | The Latest: Central banker: we can’t undo trade war damage
BEIJING — The Latest on the trade dispute between China and the U.S. that may result in the two sides each imposing higher duties on billions of dollars’ worth of each other’s exports. (all times…
Beijing eyes UNESCO status for Mao tomb, Tiananmen Square
Beijing wants to have Mao Zedong’s Mausoleum and Tiananmen Square, powerful and controversial symbols of Chinese communist might, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, official media reported o… ( read original story …)
Beijing is their campus: Inside the Chinese capital’s life-changing study tours
Becoming immersed in Chinese culture while studying in Beijing can be positively life changing. Just ask French author Vincent Hein, who wrote East of the Clouds, a published diary of his experience l… ( read…
Beijing Gets a Major Design Fair
Beijing, which was designated a UNESCO City of Design just six years ago, boasts buildings by the likes of Herzog & de Meuron, Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster, and Steven Holl. So it stands to reason…
Beijing’s historic axis to seek World Heritage status
File photo: The top of Jingshan Park gives visitors a bird’s eye view of Gulou Avenue, located to the north of Beijing’s central axis.[Photo/Xinhua] BEIJING – Beijing’s historic north-south Zhongzhoux… ( read original story …)
China pressures EU to issue statement against Donald Trump’s trade policies
“We won’t do it and we have told them that.” In a commentary on Wednesday, China’s official Xinhua news agency said China and Europe “should resist trade protectionism hand in hand”. “China and Europe… (…
Thousands rally in Hong Kong over Beijing’s tightening grip
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Thousands of Hong Kong people braved sweltering heat on Sunday to protest against Beijing’s tightening grip over the city as the former British colony marked the 21st anniversary … ( read…
How Beijing’s bid to eliminate local dialects backfired
Language is often seen as a symbol of the “soft power” of a particular place. For example, back in the 1980s and ’90s, when Hong Kong’s pop culture was in its heyday, Cantopop songs were…
Beijing fossil exhibition prompts rethink of mammal evolution
We flew over Jurassic China, and the pristine forest stretched endlessly towards distant mountains. A river meandered below and we sank down to skim across its surface like a dragonfly. A pterosaur sw… ( read…
China warns citizens against U.S. travel citing gun violence, expensive medical costs
I think this is absolutely a matter that is in the scope of our duty,” ministry spokesman Lu Kang told a regular news briefing. There was little mention of the latest embassy alert on Chinese…
China’s Xiaomi says American ties to smooth U.S. push amid trade tension
On Monday, state-backed China Mobile Ltd (HKSE:0941.HK – News) became the latest Chinese telecommunications firm targeted by U.S. politicians seeking to block market entry on security grounds. The U.S. action comes against a backdrop of…
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