Taiwan is warily watching whether China could seek to try and exert economic control over sensitive frontline Taiwanese islands in a key development plan being discussed in Beijing this week, officials familiar with the matter said.

BEIJING | XINHUA | China has become a crucial stabilizer and driving force for the global economy, with its green transformation and innovation breakthroughs offering significant value, said an official with the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

A fter a months-long trade war between China and the United States, Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are scheduled to meet Thursday in Korea. Both countries seem to be angling for a truce; over the weekend, they announced a “framework” for a possible agreement.

For Singaporean enterprises, the China market offers significant advantages, including immense market access with a growing upper-middle-income group, a dynamic innovation and co-creation ecosystem for partnerships in fintech, AI, and smart manufacturing, as well as its role as a gateway for regional expansion and supply chain diversification.

The light metal gained more than 7% in October, its best showing in more than a year, as investors and analysts bet that a state-imposed production cap in China will incrementally tighten supply as demand in sectors such as construction and consumer goods rebounds.

An agreement by China to purchase U.S. soybeans could help struggling Arkansas farmers sell their crops this year and help farmers plan for 2026, but the deal is unlikely to ease economic challenges,

U.S. soybean farmers and lawmakers said the Chinese purchase of several shiploads of U.S. soybeans indicated a positive step in trade negotiations between the two counties. Reuters reported Wednesday that COFCO,

In this conversation, the FT’s John Thornhill and MIT Technology Review’s Caiwei Chen consider the battle between Silicon Valley and Beijing for technological supremacy.

BEIJING, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Chinese policymakers are comfortable with the yuan's rise to 2 1/2-year highs as a rebound in the world's second-biggest economy accelerates and the central bank gives the market greater leeway in setting the currency's value ...