All posts tagged "China"

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  Chinese E-Shoppers Spend Billions on Singles Day

  BEIJING — In a bright spot for China’s cooling economy, online shoppers spent billions of dollars Friday on “Singles Day,” a quirky holiday that has grown into the world’s busiest day for e-commerce. The country’s biggest e-commerce...

  • Posted November 11, 2016
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  China’s Plans for Myanmar Town Hold Few Local Opportunities

  KYAUKPYU, Myanmar — China’s plan for its foothold on the Bay of Bengal, on Myanmar’s western coast in restive Rakhine state, includes an industrial zone, oil refinery and deep-water port that could transform a sleepy, remote town...

  • Posted November 11, 2016
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  China Unveils Plan to Cut Corporate Debt with Stock Swaps

  BEIJING — Chinese authorities unveiled plans Monday to let companies give equity in themselves to banks to pay down soaring debt levels that economists warn might hamper the country’s already slowing growth. Companies that show “good prospects”...

  • Posted October 10, 2016
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  Chemical Weapon For Sale: China’s Unregulated Narcotic

  SHANGHAI — For a few thousand dollars, Chinese companies offer to export a powerful chemical that has been killing unsuspecting drug users and is so lethal that it presents a potential terrorism threat, an Associated Press investigation...

  • Posted October 7, 2016
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  Divided America: How China Fueled Pain And Trump Support

  HANNIBAL, Ohio – Crushed by Chinese competition and feeling betrayed by mainstream politicians, workers in the hills of eastern Ohio are embracing Donald Trump and his tough talk on trade. For decades, they and others living across...

  • Posted September 14, 2016
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  China Promises Cooperation on Steel at Global Summit

  HANGZHOU, China – China agreed to cooperate more closely with its trading partners on its politically volatile steel exports as leaders of major economies ended a summit Monday with a forceful endorsement of free trade and a crowded...

  • Posted September 6, 2016
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  WHY IT MATTERS: China

  WASHINGTON – THE ISSUE: Tensions have been rising between China and the United States. China is modernizing its military and pressing its sovereignty claims over the disputed South China Sea, an important route for global trade. The...

  • Posted August 22, 2016
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  Chinese Gov’t Imposes Anti-Zika Regulations to US Exporters

  China has reported some 12 cases of the Zika virus infection since the disease was first detected in February

  • Posted August 17, 2016
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  China Ridicules Trump’s Criticism of Its Trade Practices

  BEIJING – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is playing the “China-bashing card” in an attempt to rescue his falling poll numbers but has no real ideas to resolve the two nations’ differences, China’s official news agency said...

  • Posted August 9, 2016
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  US stocks slip as falling oil prices punish energy companies

  NEW YORK – U.S. stocks wobbled and finished mostly lower Monday as the price of oil continued to nosedive thanks to the strong dollar. Energy companies took the biggest losses as U.S. crude hovered around $40 a...

  • Posted August 1, 2016