Trade War

The US trade war on China will provoke Chinese citizens into turning away from Apple and buying domestic mobile brands instead, according to an analyst note from Citi on Monday. The analysts predicted that Apple's brand is already being damaged in China, a…

Massive news just dropped for Hong Kong’s capital markets. Alibaba, one of the world’s largest tech companies, is considering raising $20 billion through a second listing in Hong Kong, Bloomberg reported on Monday citing sources. Unnamed people told Bloomber…

Trump pledges $16B to farmers hurt by trade war

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump’s $16 billion aid program will help boost American farmers hit by the ongoing U.S.-China trade war, including market access programs, the U.S. agriculture secretary said in a television interview on Thursday.…

China has already run a small-scale test of the "nuclear option" in its trade war with the US. The Asian nation sold $20 billion worth of US Treasurys in March, possibly foreshadowing a total offloading of American government bonds that would plunge global ma…

Asian and European stocks and US futures fell on Thursday following reports that Panasonic, Arm, and other Huawei partners have cut ties with the Chinese telecoms titan following its blacklisting by the Trump administration. Japanese electronics giant Pana…

During the 1980s and 90s, Nintendo made its game consoles in Japan. Now, they are made in China and could get more expensive for American consumers. Since late January of last year, the US and China have been in a trade war. As The New York Times reports, th…

Image copyrightGetty Images A top business lobby group representing American firms in China said they have "real concerns" over how Beijing may respond to US action taken against Huawei. Speaking to the BBC, AmCham China chairman Tim Stratford said its mem…

Perhaps nothing captures the growing anti-U.S. sentiment in China better than a song about the trade war that is going viral in Beijing: “If the perpetrator wants to fight, we will beat him out of his wits.” This privately-produced song has more than 100,000…