Xi Jinping

Image copyrightAFPImage caption The increases will affect about $550bn of Chinese imports President Donald Trump has hit back at China by announcing new higher tariffs on imports - escalating a mounting trade war between the two nations. In a series of tw…

PARIS (Reuters) - Leaders of the G7 nations arrive in France on Saturday for a summit as a brewing U.S.-China confrontation over protectionism highlighted President Emmanuel Macron’s tough task in delivering meaningful results on trade, Iran and climate chang…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump reacted furiously on Friday after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell linked the trade war with China to risks to the U.S. economy, asking whether the man he handpicked to run the U.S. central bank was a greater “…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump reacted furiously on Friday after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell spoke about the trade war with China and economic risks to the United States, asking whether his appointee to the U.S. central bank was a great…

In the end, Xi will have to endure a minor exception to his absolute power or a major blow to his legitimacy. MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP/Getty Images Doug Saunders, the Globes international-affairs columnist, is currently a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow of the Ro…

Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, August 23) President Rodrigo Dutertes trip to China has been cut short. His visit was initially scheduled from August 28 to September 3. Now he is set to come home two days earlier. The Department of Foreign Affairs on Friday …

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong braced on Friday for further demonstrations and a “stress test” of the city’s international airport at the weekend, as nearly three months of anti-government protests showed no sign of abating. Multiple protests are planned f…

Li Ka-shing speaks to a news conference in Hong Kong last year. The nonagenarian tycoon purchased full-page ads in local newspapers warning against violence but at least one scholar of Chinese language sees a secret message of support for the protesters. Kin…

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc’s Google announced on Thursday that its YouTube streaming video service disabled 210 channels appearing to engage in a coordinated influence operation around the Hong Kong protests, days after Twitter and Facebook said t…

Cda-US-Pompeo, 4th Writethru Update:RECASTS with details from news conference HL:U.S. secretary of state takes aim at China over diplomatic feud with Canada THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is taking direct aim at how China…