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An increase in orders to South Korea’s shipbuilders has the nation’s steelmakers sounding the alarm about a recent influx of cheaper Chinese imports into the country. The boost in demand by shipbuilders, especially for thick steel plates, resulted IN South Korea importing 149,488 tons of the plates in September, a monthly high for the year, […]

Ties to a pro-Beijing television network raises concerns that the station could soon beam the Chinese regime’s propaganda into the United States and Mexico.

A Chinese company has been using rotten apples in its juice, 95 percent of which is made for export to destinations in the United States, Canada, Europe, and other destinations.

70 percent of illicit drugs in Taiwan came from China, necessitating further investigation and a zero-tolerance policy.

BEIJING—China’s politically sensitive yuan sank to a 22-month low against the dollar on Oct. 18 after the U.S. Treasury declined to label Beijing a currency manipulator amid a mounting tariff battle. The closely watched yuan fell to 6.9411 per dollar at mid-morning, coming its closest to breaking the symbolically significant level of seven to the […]

China’s soybean imports are set to drop by a quarter in the last three months of 2018, their biggest fall in at least 12 years as buyers curb purchases amid the China-U.S. trade war and high domestic stockpiles. Soybeans, crushed to make protein-rich animal feed ingredients and vegetable oils, have been at the heart of […]

TOKYO—Sales of industrial robots in China, the world’s biggest market, will grow this year at only about a third of last year as an escalating China-U.S. trade war hits spending on equipment, a global robot group said on Oct. 18. The International Federation of Robotics (IFR) in its annual report forecast Chinese demand for robots […]

The mood on Wall Street is decidedly gloomy on China. Ever since official data signaled a slowdown this past spring, market analysts have claimed that the world’s second largest economy is in critical condition. According to this narrative, investment is at historic lows, retail sales aren’t far behind, and the deleveraging campaign has crushed credit […]

Tensions between China and the Trump administration are not only evident in an escalating trade war. The standoff also appears to be intensifying in Central America and the Caribbean, creating a new wrinkle in a temperamental and volatile relationship. At a moment of acutely strained relations with China, the United States sent strongly worded messages […]

SINGAPORE—U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told his Chinese counterpart that the world’s two largest economies need to deepen high-level ties, so as to navigate tensions and rein in the risk of inadvertent conflict. Mattis saw firsthand last month how mounting Sino–U.S. friction can undermine military contacts, when Beijing upended plans for him to travel to […]

Canada risks becoming a “client state” of China unless it stops being naïve to growing Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence undermining its democracy and sovereignty. This strategy of wooing domestic authorities is employed time and again in Canada too.

China’s consumer price index (CPI), which is a gauge of inflation, rose 2.5 percent year-on-year in September to the highest level in seven months. The statistics, released on Oct. 16 by the National Bureau of Statistics, show a rise of 0.7 percent from August. A sharp increase in non-food prices, which rose 2.2 percent year-on-year, […]

Beijing has directed significant investment into Israeli ports and railroads recently, while also purchasing Israeli artificial intelligence and cybersecurity products, high-tech systems, and electronic devices for its own use. Now, Israeli officials are growing concerned about the security risks of China’s ambitions. “Surprisingly, we don’t have a body that supervises operations of Chinese companies in […]

WASHINGTON—The United States announced on Oct. 17 that it is preparing to pull out of an international postal treaty that allows China to ship packages to America at discounted rates. The move could escalate a trade dispute with China. President Donald Trump argues that the 144-year-old Universal Post Union benefits China and other countries at […]

Officials from the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are likely to hold a major political meeting this month to set out the CCP’s direction, outline its economic policies, and discuss countermeasures related to the ongoing Sino-U.S. trade war, according to South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency, which cites an unidentified source. If the […]

As the U.S.-China trade war continues, tensions between the two nations have escalated. The Chinese regime is attempting to stir up anti-American sentiment among its people. On Oct. 10, the United States Embassy in Beijing hosted a forum on the topic of educational transformation in modern China. However, local security forces prohibited people from attending […]

SINGAPORE—U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis plans to meet on Oct. 18 in Singapore with his Chinese counterpart amid escalating tensions over China’s purchase of Russian fighter planes and missiles as well as ongoing friction in the South China Sea. Shortly after Mattis arrived in Singapore on Oct. 17 after a visit to Vietnam, a senior […]

BEIJING—The director of “Air Strike,” featuring Chinese actress Fan Bingbing, says the film’s release has been canceled in the wake of her disappearance and conviction on tax evasion charges. The World War II thriller, also starring Bruce Willis and Adrien Brody, was to have been released Oct. 26. However, director Xiao Feng posted on his […]

Crackdowns on online speech have increased following Beijing’s enactment of a cybersecurity law in June 2017.

In the narrow “window” that remains before China is completely blocked by the United States from importing key technology, Beijing should use “unrestricted” and “supernormal” means, including “more precise, better concealed, and special ways,” to expedite the process of acquiring overseas talent and cutting-edge equipment, according to a leaked internal Chinese government document. The 12-page […]