Trade War

“To give you an idea of the scale of the issue,” says Ankhbayar Ganbold, country director (Mongolia) at the Nature Conservancy, “Baganuur Coal Mine, which sits within the city limits, produced 4,600 tons of CO2 in December 2019. Across the same month last year, it churned out as much as…

This is the first part of a series on the competition between the United States and China over science, technology, and research and development.  In May 2018, just months after the U.S.-China trade war escalated and both sides began slapping tariffs on each other’s goods, Chinese President Xi Jinping outlined…

Palm oil has become a major reason for stalled discussions in the ASEAN-EU Strategic Partnership joint working group, where so far not even a meeting agenda has been approved. This is because the EU has been adamant on including the EU Green Deal​, which features its Farm-to-Fork strategy. This is…

Huawei has trouble sourcing 5G components due to the trade war with the US, so the company has taken to re-releasing some of its existing 5G phones as 4G-only models. The latest to take the plunge is the foldable Huawei Mate X2. The 4G model went on sale in China…

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Australia is stuck between a rock lobster and a hard place. Its biggest trading partner is China, expected to become the world's biggest economy. That should be good news, but there's a catch: Canberra also craves the security and legitimacy it gets from being allied with the United States and…

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World Trade Organisation boss Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has played down the chances of a UK-EU trade war over Northern Ireland, saying she would be a “little surprised” if it came to that. The WTO director general told journalists today that a trade war would be “too costly for both sides”. The…

Head of WTO says she hopes there will be no UK-EU trade war ReutersLast Updated: Jun 12, 2021, 07:03 PM IST Synopsis "I would really, really hope that a UK-EU trade war will not take place," WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said in response to a question when speaking to reporters…