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BEIJING — President Xi Jinping renewed a pledge Tuesday to open China’s markets further for trade and investment, including in its automobile sector, and said he would also work harder to boost imports, in what was seen as a conciliatory speech amid an escalating trade conflict with the United States.
On any given day, Skagit County residents recycle a variety of plastic items, from yogurt containers emptied at breakfast to soda bottles drained during for an afternoon pick-me-up.
For years, many of these items have made their way to China — the primary market for recyclables from throughout the United States, including Skagit County.
SenseTime Group Ltd. has raised $600 million from Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and other investors at a valuation of more than $3 billion, becoming the world’s most valuable artificial intelligence startup.
President Donald Trump ratcheted up the trade war rhetoric with China on Thursday evening, saying he was considering another wave of steep tariffs on the country's exports to the United States.
WASHINGTON — White House officials moved quickly on Wednesday to calm fears of a potential trade war with China, saying the administration’s proposed tariffs were a “threat” that would ultimately help, not hurt, the U.S. economy, hours after China said it would punish American products with similar levies.
China is the midst of several megaprojects that will transform its cities.
Over the next decade, China plans to encourage 250 million people (29 times New York City's population) to move into the country's growing megacities. To cope with that huge migration, the country has invested tens of billions of dollars in giant infrastructure projects.
China's government is responding to the latest tariffs levied by the Trump administration with its own set of tariffs targeting American soybeans, cars and other exports.
The wife of a detained Chinese lawyer has begun a march of more than 100km (62 miles) to try to find answers about his fate.
Li Wenzu is walking from Beijing to Tianjin, where she thinks Wang Quanzhang may be being held.
She told the BBC she had heard nothing since his arrest 1,000 days ago and did not even know if he was still alive.
Chinese strongman Xi Jinping isn’t going to give Donald Trump an easy win on trade. That’s the message of Beijing’s quick response to Washington’s plan, announced late Tuesday, to impose a 25% tariff on $50 billion in Chinese-made goods. Hours later, China’s State Council issued its own $50 billion tariff list targeting American exports.
Boeing Co. BA +1.95% said Wednesday it would engage in talks with the U.S. and China in an effort to prevent their trade spat from harming the global aerospace industry.