Tag Archives: Trade

• Under Biden, China faces renewed trade pressure 26 January 2021 | Joe McDonald and Paul Wiseman This post has no comments yet

  The US-Chinese trade war isn't going away under President Joe Biden. Biden won't confront Beijing right away, economists say, because he wants to focus on the coronavirus and the economy. ...

• India bans 43 more mobile apps as it takes on China 24 November 2020 | Reuters Staff This post has no comments yet

  India banned 43 mobile applications on Tuesday including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd’s e-commerce app Aliexpress in a new wave of web sanctions targeted at China with whom it has engaged in a months-long standoff at a Himalayan border site. ...

• US, China trade jibes as military tensions worsen 27 August 2020 | Ben Blanchard This post has one comment

  The United States and China traded jibes as military tensions grow between the world’s two largest economies, with the US defence chief vowing not to “cede an inch” in the Pacific and China saying Washington was risking soldiers’ lives. ...

• TikTok sues Trump administration over US ban, calls it an election ploy 24 August 2020 | Echo Wang and Jonathan Stempel This post has no comments yet

  TikTok and one of its employees on Monday separately sued US President Donald Trump’s administration over his executive order banning transactions in the United States with the popular short-form video-sharing app. ...

• Trump issues bans on China’s TikTok, WeChat, stoking tension with Beijing 6 August 2020 | David Shepardson and Alexandra Alper This post has no comments yet

  US President Donald Trump on Thursday unveiled sweeping bans on US transactions with China’s ByteDance, owner of video-sharing app TikTok, and Tencent, operator of messenger app WeChat, in a major escalation of tensions with Beijing. ...

• India bans 47 more Chinese mobile apps 28 July 2020 This post has no comments yet

  India has banned 47 more Chinese apps just weeks after blocking the highly popular video-sharing platform TikTok and 58 others over national security and privacy concerns, an information ministry official and media reports said Monday. ...

• Pompeo urges India to reduce dependence on China 22 July 2020 | Neha Arora and Aftab Ahmed This post has no comments yet

  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged India on Wednesday to focus on domestic supply chains and reduce its dependence on China for telecommunications and medical supplies, as Washington’s ties with Beijing deteriorate dramatically. ...

• US sanctions more Chinese companies over China’s treatment of Uyghurs 20 July 2020 | David Shepardson and Diane Bartz This post has one comment

  The US Commerce Department on Monday added 11 Chinese companies implicated in what it called human rights violations in connection with China’s treatment of its Uyghurs in Xinjiang in western China to the US economic blacklist. ...

• US, China set to sign vital trade truce 15 January 2020 This post has one comment

  The world's two dominant economic powers, the United States and China, are poised to sign a trade truce Wednesday that will allow businesses around the globe to breathe a sigh of relief. ...

• USA-China trade war: Who will have the last laugh? 14 September 2019 | NS Venkataraman This post has one comment

  The world is watching how China and the US will deal with their trade issues, which could well determine the future of global trade relations and the overall global geo-political scenario. ...