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US President Donald Trump poses for a photo with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka in 2019.

Trump agrees to visit China after ice-breaking call with Xi

The US president said he had accepted an invitation to visit Beijing after the call with his China counterpart – their first since he returned to power in January.

  • Michael Koziol and Lisa Visentin

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Vladimir Putin speaks to China’s President Xi Jinping during the Victory Day parade in Moscow.

Putin gave him ice-cream. Xi says they’re best friends. But this bromance has limits

The leaders of Russia and China have cultivated an image of affection that has alarmed Donald Trump, but not all is as it seems, analysts say.

  • Lisa Visentin
Trucks from Russia and Belarus wait for custom clearance at a parking lot in Manzhouli, a Chinese town on the border of Russia.

Giant dolls, an empty theme park and semi-trailers: The tourist trap that’s now a lifeline for Russia

We arrive in Manzhouli a day before Xi Jinping is to meet Vladimir Putin in Moscow. It’s a ghost town, where bored attendants man empty rides. But a dusty carpark nearby tells the real story.

  • Lisa Visentin
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Xi Jinping’s plan to beat America at AI

China’s leaders believe they can win the showdown between the world’s superpowers.

  • The Economist
A solar power station on the outskirts of Golmud, Qinghai province.

The rumours were true: China’s greenhouse gas emissions are falling

Suspicions were first reported last year that the world’s biggest greenhouse gas polluter was managing to cut its emissions five years earlier than planned.

  • Nick O'Malley
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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Garment workers in Guangzhou’s “Shein Village” district work through their lunch break to churn out fast fashion destined to be sold on Chinese e-commerce site Pindoudou.

‘Because there is no profit, no one is willing to work’: Inside China’s fast-fashion dilemma

Factory workers in Guangzhou’s ultrafast-fashion district are already counting the costs of the US-China trade war as a 90-day truce came into effect this week.

  • Lisa Visentin
Monica Xie, 33, sales representative of a Guangdong-based toy company, said she began calling US suppliers this week as soon as the trade truce was announced.

Monica has tens of thousands of dolls stuck in a warehouse. Now she’s got 90 days to clear them

When news broke of a 90-day trade truce between Washington and Beijing, a brief window of opportunity flew open and Chinese toy makers hit the phones immediately.

  • Lisa Visentin
FILE - President Donald Trump, right, talks with China’s President Xi Jinping during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Nov. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

Both sides blinked, but this is Trump’s capitulation to own

As the clock starts on the 90-day period for the US and China to strike a deal, was all the pain of the last six weeks worth it?

  • Lisa Visentin
President Donald Trump says China has agreed to fully open its economy.

Don’t break out the champagne: The trade war truce is just a reprieve

Markets are celebrating the outcome of the weekend’s trade negotiations between the US and China, but the 90-day pause buys only time, not a resolution.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz

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