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Chinese e-commerce platforms Shein and Temu are challening Amazon.

Shein and Temu are in the world’s crosshairs

It’s not just the US looking to put up walls to slow down China’s surge of cheap products. Australia may need to rethink its strategy.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz

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Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are engaged in a monstrous scuffle over tariffs.

Trump needs to make a ‘nothingburger’ deal with China

The US president has declared a “total reset” of trade relations with China after weekend talks in Geneva. Not so fast.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
BYD’s high-end Yangwang U9, an all-electric sports car, has winged doors. It also has a “leap mode” for jumping potholes and road spikes.

This luxury car can use ‘leap mode’ for potholes – but it’s not a Ferrari

Chinese manufacturers are trying to outdo each other and European rivals with features that range from the incredible to the absurd. But there is a risk for Australian buyers.

  • Lisa Visentin

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President Donald Trump at a rally in Michigan to mark his first 100 days in office.

US kids may get ‘two dolls instead of 30’, but China will suffer more, says Trump

The US president has tried to reassure a nervous country that his tariffs will not provoke a recession, after a government report showed the US economy shrank since he took office.

  • Josh Boak
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This is one of America’s most shocking economic defeats in 40 years

A photo taken on the weekend shows just how much the world is uniting to fight back against Donald Trump’s damaging trade war.

  • Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
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Fast food workers at Chinese burger chain Tastien prepare orders at a store in Beijing.

Made in China burger and fries has a side of nationalism

I went to a Tastien fast food outlet to try the burger that’s designed to knock McDonald’s and KFC off their Beijing perch. Some come here just for the buns.

  • Lisa Visentin
US stocks suffered the worst two-day drop since December amid escalating trade tensions.

The Trump turmoil has handed China a golden opportunity

Xi Jinping has raced to take advantage of the increased uncertainty sparked by Donald Trump.

  • Chris Price
The Kremlin’s focus on the Arctic comes as melting ice, triggered by global warming, prompts fresh tensions with the US and Beijing over control of new shipping routes, fishing rights and military outposts.

Ice king: Why Vladimir Putin wants to conquer the Arctic

Vladimir Putin is desperate to exploit the Arctic to help provide a lifeline to Russia’s flagging economy. It won’t be easy.

  • Matt Oliver
In the final quarter of 2023, BYD, the Shenzhen-based company backed by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway group, outsold Tesla for the first time.

China’s BYD cemented its lead on Elon Musk’s Tesla in five minutes

Musk’s politicking damages Tesla’s brand, but the underlying problem goes much deeper: It’s Tesla’s relatively old line-up of electric car models.

  • Liam Denning

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