US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is in Beijing for talks with Chinese counterpart Wang Wentao. US firms reported challenges with operating in China after Washington moved to block advanced semiconductor exports. US Commerce Secretary Gina...
The World Economic Forum’s (wef) summer meeting is bringing together decision-makers in Tianjin, China. Alongside topics like AI and biotech, the conversation has focused on whether business can ignore political tensions. On the way from...
The latest round of high-level government consultations in Berlin were friendly in tone but tough in substance. Germany needs China, but also wants to minimize its dependency. Chinese Premier Li Qiang came to Berlin with ten...
The Fed’s hawkish hold and signal that it may raise rates two more time this year sent ripples through the capital markets. Risk appetites have been dealt a blow. However, China’s rate cut and likely...
The IEA said renewable energy is expanding faster than many people realize, but it warned that investment in fossil fuels is not slowing fast enough to reach goals to slash emissions by 2050. Global investment...
The concept of the “Global South” has been all the rage in recent months, along with that of the “de-Westernization of the world”. Is it the same phenomenon and what realities do these two expressions...
The market sentiment remains fragile. Equities are mostly lower. Japan was a notable exception, and concerns about China’s economy after a sharp decline in imports took mainland and Hong Kong listed companies sharply lower. Europe’s...
At the end of April, India officially became the world’s most populous nation. With a fast-growing economy and a young population, will there be an economic bonus to add to the potent symbolic one? According...
Chile is to cut the working week from 45 to 40 hours — a stark contrast to the 48 hours of toil across the rest of Latin America. From four-day weeks to remote work, DW...
There is a fragile calm in the capital markets today ahead of the long holiday weekend for many. The poor US economic data yesterday and third consecutive decline in the KBW bank index weighed on...
Hungary wants to become a key producer of electric vehicle batteries. Government spending has attracted investments, including a new Chinese gigafactory. The sound of whirring, rattling and bleeping fills the springtime air as excavators and...
Three decades after China enshrined the goal of a “socialist market economy” in its constitution, the era of “reform and opening up” appears to have ended, say experts. Thirty years ago, on March 29, 1993, China formally...