Protectionism

Proposals by the European Union to establish a "carbon border tax" will damage the global community's willingness to take joint action against climate change, China said on Wednesday. The EU's new climate commissioner Frans Timmermans said in October that re…

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IMAGE: DJI Zenmuse X7 Ramping up the tension, the Trump administration is now gunning for Chinas DJI, the undisputed world leader in drone production, forcing state and local agencies to stop using the companys products, despite being the most competitive, a…

Relations between the world’s two largest economies have nose-dived amid a bitter trade war – which they are trying to resolve – and arguments over human rights, Hong Kong and U.S. support for Chinese-claimed Taiwan. The United States is the world’s biggest …

BEIJING (Reuters) - The United States is the world's biggest source of instability and its politicians are going around the world baselessly smearing China, the Chinese government's top diplomat said on Saturday in a stinging attack at a G20 meeting in Japan.…

NEW DELHI (AP) Hundreds of students and activists sang, danced and chanted anti-government slogans in Indias capital on Saturday as they marched against increased student housing fees at a public university. During the protest in New Delhi, the students chan…

The AI that determines optimal ways to continued peaceful economic growth over time, will lose to the AI that determines the quickest and most thorough means to destroy the first AI. And, ultimately, to whatever degree an AI could calculate the "how", it wil…

Mike Bloomberg, who has been moving toward a presidential run but not yet announced his formal plans, has "made a decision to serve his country," former treasury secretary Hank Paulson said at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Beijing on Thursday. "My good …

Published: 12:00pm, 20 Nov, 2019 Updated: 12:00pm, 20 Nov, 2019

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) on November 18 said the global goods trade is expected to remain below trend in the fourth quarter of the current year amid increasing protectionism and increase in customs duties. The forecast does not augur well for India …