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China is pushing forward with its plans to take on Boeing and Airbus.

China’s audacious plot to rule the skies

China is pushing forward with its plans to dominate the world of aviation. Its latest move has sceptics shaking their heads.

  • Ben Marlow

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Donald Trump has pumped the brakes on starting a new trade war.

Trump’s ‘day one’ promise has been broken

Donald Trump had threatened to launch an economic war on the world on the first day of his new presidency. He has backed down - for now.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping.

Under Trump, the US and China may be greater friends than ever

Much has been made of the impending trade war between the United States and China, but the mercurial Trump might surprise us all.

  • Baogang He
China’s population shrank for a third consecutive year in 2024, even as the country saw a modest increase in births

Even a baby boom can’t stop China’s population shrinking

China’s population decline has become a major source of anxiety for policymakers as the country grapples with the economic consequences of a rapidly ageing society.

  • Lisa Visentin
Trump has vowed to increase tariffs on China as soon as he returns to the White House.

China just waved a $1.6 trillion red rag at Trump

A week before Donald Trump regains the White House with a cabinet full of trade hawks, China has released figures sure to enrage the incoming president.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
A view of Monterrey in Mexico, a country that emerged as an attractive manufacturing hub for U.S.-focused companies as tariffs on Chinese imports and pandemic shipping costs highlighted overseas risks.

‘Trump hates China more’: Mexicans bet that Trump is bluffing on tariffs

As Donald Trump vows an expanded trade war, Mexican businesses are continuing with factory expansions. They assume Mexico remains central to America’s goal to be less dependent on China.

  • Peter S. Goodman
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Shen Yun has been forced to issue a statement that their dancers are based in the USA.

How Shen Yun tapped religious fervour to make a fortune

The dance group has accumulated enormous wealth, in large part by getting followers of the Falun Gong religious movement to work free and pay its bills.

  • Michael Rothfeld and Nicole Hong
The growing threat of more US tariffs on China pushed the yuan down to a 13-month low on Tuesday.

Chinese companies have sidestepped Trump’s tariffs. They could do it again.

China’s exporters have found plenty of new channels to the US market — demonstrating the potential limits of the tariffs Donald Trump has promised to impose.

  • Ana Swanson
Xi Jinping, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin all seek radical change to the current world order.

How has the 21st century gone so wrong?

How did we get here, and what are the chances that the next 25 years will be better than the last?

  • Adrian Wooldridge
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in 2019. Financial markets are concerned about a trade war between the world’s two largest economies.

The world’s most important bromance needs to be rekindled

Xi Jinping and Donald Trump can’t let relations between China and the US deteriorate any further.

  • Karishma Vaswani

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