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Xi Jinping calls on EU to oppose US 'bullying' amid escalating trade war
China has retaliated against US tariffs by imposing 125 per cent additional tariffs on American goods
China's 125% tariff counter to Trump's 145% levy, vows to 'fight till end'
China raises tariffs on US goods to 125%, warns of firm retaliation if Washington continues to 'infringe' on its interests
Tesla halts Model S, Model X orders in China as sales drop and tariffs bite
Tesla has removed the 'order now' option for Model S and Model X in China as it battles falling sales, rising local competition, and deepening US-China trade tensions
Taiwan detects 2 Chinese aircraft sorties, 6 naval vessels near territory
G7 Foreign Ministers, along with the High Representative of the European Union, expressed concern over China's recent provocative actions
Gold hits record high as US-China trade war intensifies, dollar weakens
Spot gold climbed 2.6% to $3,160.82 an ounce at 01:54 p.m. ET (1754 GMT), after hitting a record high of $3,171.49 earlier in the session
Beijing bites back at US tariffs by imposing curbs on Hollywood movies
After three decades during which China annually imported 10 Hollywood movies, its National Film Administration said Trump's increase of tariffs on Chinese imports would further sour domestic demand
'Do not retaliate': White House warns as Trump slaps 125% tariffs on China
US imposes 125 per cent tariffs on all Chinese goods; China hits back with 84 per cent tariffs on all US imports, escalating trade tensions between the world's two largest economies
Taiwan detects 11 Chinese aircraft sorties, 6 naval vessels near territory
In light of the heightened Chinese military activity around Taiwan, the G7 Foreign Ministers, along with the High Representative of the European Union, expressed concern
Beijing denies claims of Chinese troops fighting with Russia in Ukraine
Ukraine's claim that significant numbers of Chinese nationals are fighting alongside Russia's invading army is totally unfounded, a Beijing official said on Wednesday. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced Tuesday that the Ukrainian military had captured two Chinese men fighting alongside the Russian army in the eastern Donetsk region and had information that significantly more are with Russian forces. It was the first time that Ukraine had made such a claim about Chinese fighters on its soil amid Russia's almost three-year invasion. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said in Beijing that China has played a constructive role in politically resolving the Ukraine crisis. Lin told a daily news briefing Wednesday that the Chinese government always asks Chinese citizens to stay away from conflict zones, avoid getting involved in any form of armed conflict, and especially refrain from participating in any party's military operations. His comments appeared to indi
Fire at China nursing home kills 20 elderly residents, 19 hospitalised
Twenty elderly people were killed in a fire at a nursing home in north China's Hebei province, local officials said on Wednesday. A total of 39 elderly residents were residing in the building when the blaze broke out around 9 pm on Tuesday (local time) in Longhua County, Chengde City, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. The fire was extinguished by around 11 pm. A total of 20 people have been confirmed dead so far while 19 were sent to a hospital for examination. Police have detained the person in charge of the nursing home. The cause of the fire is still under investigation, the report said. Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post quoted Jimu News that the 300-bed Guoen Senior Home had 260 elderly residents at the time of the blaze, based on public records. Among them were 98 people with total disability and 84 described as semi-disabled. According to the records, the remaining 78 residents were capable of self-care. According to the licensing record, its business scope was
Beijing increases diplomatic pressure on Africa as US influence wanes
Chinese diplomats threatened to cancel a summit and called top officials in two African countries to pressure lawmakers to quit an international parliamentary group critical of China, officials from the group told The Associated Press. It's an example of how far China will go to influence politicians overseas, and how that pressure can succeed behind closed doors. In the past year, lawmakers from Malawi and Gambia withdrew from the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, or IPAC, a group of hundreds of lawmakers from 38 countries concerned about how democracies approach Beijing, according to letters, messages and voice recordings obtained by The Associated Press. Founded in 2020, the group has coordinated sanctions on China over rights abuses in Xinjiang and Hong Kong and rallied support for Taiwan, a self-ruled democratic island Beijing claims as its territory. African politicians and experts say it's an escalation of Chinese diplomatic pressure in Africa, where Beijing's influence
Taiwan detects 25 Chinese aircraft sorties, six vessels near its territory
According to the MND, out of the 25 aircraft sorties, 18 crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait and entered Taiwan's southwestern and eastern Air Defence Identification Zones (ADIZ)
Tracking Chinese yuan, rupee declines further; importers stock US dollar
The rupee fell by 0.5 per cent to settle at 86.26 per dollar, against the previous close of 85.86 per dollar. The Indian unit weakened 0.6 per cent on Monday
Trump eyes China response before launching 104% tariffs amid trade war
China has refused to bow to what it called 'blackmail' and vowed to 'fight to the end' after Trump threatened to ratchet up tariffs to 104 per cent
Dow surges 1,300, S&P 500 gains 3.7% on hopes of tariff negotiations
China said it will "fight to the end" and warned of countermeasures after Trump threatened on Monday to raise his tariffs
World's largest dam in China like water bomb for downstream nations: BJP MP
China's announcement of constructing the world's largest dam was like a 'water bomb' which would have a devastating downstream impact on northeastern India and Bangladesh, BJP Lok Sabha member from Arunachal Pradesh Tapir Gao claimed here on Tuesday. The lawmaker from Arunachal Pradesh was addressing a conference on 'Ensuring Water Security, ecological integrity and Disaster Resilience in the Sub-Himalayan Region: The Case of the Brahmaputra'. "China has already decided to construct a dam which will have the capacity to produce 60,000 MW of electricity. This is not going to be a dam, but a water bomb to be used against India and other lower riparian countries," Gao said. He claimed that the devastating floods of June 2000 caused by a similar water bomb that had washed away more than 10 bridges on the Siang river, as the Yarlung Tsangpo is known in Arunachal Pradesh before it becomes Brahmaputra upon entering Assam. 'If China decides to release water from the dam in the future, ...
Watch: China digs out Reagan's 1987 speech on tariffs to rebuke Trump
China posted the video after Donald Trump put an additional 34 per cent tariff on Chinese goods. The footage shows Reagan warning that businesses shut down as a result of imposing tariffs
China vows to 'fight to end' after Trump threatens with still more tariffs
China said Tuesday it would fight to the end and take countermeasures against the United States to safeguard its own interests after President Donald Trump threatened an additional 50% tariff on Chinese imports. The Commerce Ministry said the US' imposition of so-called reciprocal tariffs' on China is completely groundless and is a typical unilateral bullying practice. China has taken retaliatory tariffs and the ministry hinted in its latest statement that more many be coming. The countermeasures China has taken are aimed at safeguarding its sovereignty, security and development interests, and maintaining the normal international trade order. They are completely legitimate, the ministry said. The US threat to escalate tariffs on China is a mistake on top of a mistake and once again exposes the blackmailing nature of the US. China will never accept this. If the US insists on its own way, China will fight to the end. Trump's threat Monday of additional tariffs on China raised fresh .
China floats interest rate cuts, industry aid to counter Trump tariff hit
The reserve requirement ratio for financial institutions and the central bank's policy rates can be cut anytime going forward, the state-owned People's Daily said in a commentary on Sunday
