Prime ministers Scott Morrison and Shinzo Abe met in a virtual leaders summit on July 9 to discuss ways for Australia and Japan to work together as trading partners and strategic allies as tensions grow in the Indo-Pacific region. […]
News Analysis China wants its banking industry to share the pain and help to boost a slumping economy—to the tune of 1.5 trillion yuan ($212 billion). To combat the worst economic downturn in 40 years […]
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) applauded the Pentagon’s decision to issue a list of Chinese companies that are owned or controlled by the Chinese military. The list of 20 Chinese companies was published on […]
News Analysis After a 6.8 percent year-over-year drop in the first quarter of 2020—the first decline in the Chinese economy since Beijing began quarterly reporting in 1992—a slow recovery is starting to take shape in the second quarter. […]
Commentary President Donald Trump’s trade deal with China is dead. Hailed as a good first step when it was signed on Jan. 15, the phase one trade agreement was more about posturing than purchasing. Still, […]
CommentaryMultinational corporate executives are keenly watching HSBC’s increasingly perilous tight-rope dance. Goodness knows they may be next in line to perform. With apologies to Standard Chartered, London-based HSBC is the face of Hong Kong’s financial industry and […]
According to Reuters on June 1, Chinese authorities had ordered state-owned enterprises to suspend the purchase of agricultural products such as US soybeans and pork. The picture shows the American farmers harvesting soybeans. (Scott Olson/Getty […]
Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) outlined how his new legislation will help prevent intellectual property theft by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which he said, has been overlooked far too long. Portman, along with Sen. Tom […]
Industry minister Karen Andrews is hoping to galvanize Australia’s manufacturing sector as businesses grapple with the aftermath of the CCP virus. Meanwhile, defence expert Michael Shoebridge believes that Australian businesses will need to reassess their reliance on the […]
According to statistics released by the Chinese government in April 2020, China was hit by a 6.8% drop in its gross domestic product (GDP) year-on-year in the first quarter of 2020. This is the first […]
Commentary The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is not used to being pushed around. But U.S. President Donald Trump knows how to shove, and he can shove pretty hard when he sets his mind to it. […]
In a week of escalating trade tensions with China, Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells has called for Australia to establish an economic “plan to decouple from China.” The call comes as twice this week China took economic […]
Commentary The global auto industry is currently mired in a crisis worse than the 2008 financial crisis. J.D. Power & Associates, an industry research firm, estimated that since the outbreak of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, auto […]
Ever since the first few cases of Covid-19 came to light in Wuhan City in the Hubei Province of China, the world has never been the same. Now a global pandemic, the disease has infected […]
Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) is set to introduce a bill to help companies move their manufacturing from China to the United States as momentum builds for the country to “decouple” from the Chinese regime as a […]
Before the virus hit, the woodworking machines at a Chinese furniture factory never stopped humming, even overnight on the weekend, as orders from Europe and Japan flew in. Now, workers get two days off each […]
Commentary “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Those were the famous words of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, spoken at his first inauguration on March 4, 1933, at the height of the Great Depression. Unemployment […]
Colorado, Mississippi, Minnesota, Montana, and Tennessee on Monday became the latest among a wave of states to declare that they would begin to ease CCP virus lockdown restrictions, in a bid to reopen their pandemic-ravaged […]
WASHINGTON—The COVID-19 pandemic is going to have serious implications for how businesses think about China. Souring sentiment against the Chinese communist regime over the past few weeks may force many corporate boards to alter their whole supply […]
News Analysis The CCP virus may destroy China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) that since 2013 has launched 2,951 projects worth $3.87 trillion, according to a new report by Oxford Business Group. Chinese leader Xi […]
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