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President Xi Jinping of China and President Donald Trump during a state visit in Beijing, Nov. 9, 2017
WORLD
Nov 21, 2024
Bracing for Trump tariffs, China's Xi makes diplomatic push at global summits
While better prepared for another Trump White House, China is also more vulnerable after its economy was hit by a huge property crisis.
Japan's exports rebounded in October, led by a pickup in chip equipment demand in China.
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 20, 2024
Japan’s exports grow, helped by China even as global risks rise
Exports rose 3.1% from a year ago, led by strong growth in shipments of chip-making equipment, especially sales to China.
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives for a bilateral meeting Peruvian President Dina Boluarte at the Government Palace in Lima on Nov. 14.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 20, 2024
Xi’s push for stable world of low tariffs undone by Trump and Putin
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is threatening to put 60% tariffs on Chinese goods while China walks a tightrope regarding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Japan’s megabanks have resumed trading activities with Nomura Holdings, people with knowledge of the matter said.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 18, 2024
Nomura's trading clients return after market manipulation probe
Many of the firms returned to Nomura after the brokerage explained measures it is taking to prevent a recurrence of the breach, sources said.
A screen displays trading information about the shares of Truth Social and Trump Media & Technology Group, outside the Nasdaq Market site in New York on March 26.
BUSINESS / Markets
Nov 18, 2024
Truth Social and late calls take over economists’ lives under Trump
The end goal for economists is to produce accurate forecasts to help traders, businesses and governments navigate the new chaotic world.
U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Lima on Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 17, 2024
Trump's shadow looms as Xi and Biden hold final meeting
The talks focused broadly on efforts by Washington and Beijing to ease the countries’ tense relationship.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Friday during their meeting on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Lima
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 17, 2024
Ishiba and Xi hold first in-person talks amid Japan-China tensions
The two countries' ties remain tense over a ban on Japanese seafood exports, China's military moves near Japan and the safety of Japanese nationals in China.
Rail trucks loaded with rocks containing uranium ore wait for transportation. Russia controls almost half the world’s capacity to separate the uranium isotopes needed for nuclear reactors
WORLD / Politics
Nov 17, 2024
Russia takes aim at U.S. nuclear power by throttling uranium
Moscow controls almost half the world’s capacity to separate the uranium isotopes needed in reactors.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping reviews an honor guard upon his arrival for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Callao, Peru, on Thursday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 16, 2024
Xi seizes role as global defender of free trade against Trump
China’s leader warned on Friday that the global economy was fracturing as protectionism spreads, leading to "severe challenges.”
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump attends a meeting with House Republicans at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Washington on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 16, 2024
G20 set to back climate goals and global trade in message to Trump
Group of 20 leaders meeting in Brazil next week are set to show unity on climate action and global trade rules.
U.S. President Joe Biden waves as he walks with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, in Woodside, California, on Nov. 15, 2023.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 14, 2024
Biden and Xi to have face-to-face at Asia-Pacific summit in Peru
It will likely be the last meeting between the sitting leaders of the world's largest economies before Joe Biden hands the reins back to Donald Trump.
Then-Chinese Vice Premier Liu He presents a letter from his boss, Xi Jinping, to then-U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House following trade negotiations in October 2019.
COMMENTARY
Nov 14, 2024
Trump’s tariffs and inflation fatigue are a toxic brew
Key to Trump's logic is the idea that the U.S. has all the leverage, and that just isn’t true in the current macroeconomic environment.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (left) shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping after a signing ceremony held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in April 2023.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 14, 2024
Lula’s embrace of Xi sets up a clash over Trump’s China policy
Brazil’s geography and colonial history meant that it has traditionally looked to the Atlantic for commerce. Now it’s deepening ties with the Asia Pacific.
Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng. He, 69, is a Politburo member and Beijing’s point person for U.S.-China economic and trade affairs.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 14, 2024
Xi’s key players to lead China in another Trump trade fight
Donald Trump’s return to power makes Beijing’s potential negotiators some of the most important people in Xi Jinping’s government.
John Tierney is replacing Jonathan Lewis as CEO of Nomura Europe Holdings and Nomura International, the bank’s key European subsidiaries, according to a statement Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 13, 2024
Nomura changes course on top European banker after eight months
Nomura has come under pressure to improve its operations since Japanese regulators found that one of its traders had manipulated the market for government bonds.
Donald Trump in the past has netted important victories before the Supreme Court for his policies on trade, immigration and the environment.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 12, 2024
One of Trump’s few checks on power? The Supreme Court he shaped.
The president-elect hasn’t always gotten his way and he may need the court’s help to fulfill his campaign-trail promises.
Then-U.S. President Donald Trump with the then-leader of Vietnam's Communist Party, Nguyen Phu Trong, at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi in February 2019
BUSINESS / Markets
Nov 12, 2024
Vietnam may find it harder to profit from new U.S.-China trade war
Its growing trade surplus with the U.S. — which is fourth-largest, after China, Mexico and Canada — will likely put it in U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's sights.
Shipping containers are seen at the Port of Nanjing in eastern China's Jiangsu province on Oct. 17.
BUSINESS / Markets
Nov 12, 2024
China approaches record $1 trillion trade surplus to world’s ire
The pace of widening puts China on a collision course with some of the world’s biggest economies by aggravating an imbalance in global commerce.
Japanese exporters could be hit by higher U.S. tariffs.
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 11, 2024
Trump tariffs could have a significant impact on Japanese exports
The U.S. president-elect has promised 10% to 20% duties on all goods coming into the United States.
A person visits TSMC Museum of Innovation in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on May 29.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 10, 2024
U.S. ordered TSMC to halt shipments to China of chips used in AI applications, source says
The order comes just weeks after TSMC reported that one of its chips had been found in a Huawei AI processor.

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