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Authorities issued strong statements on Saturday expressing their resolute support for the SAR government in its bid to reign in any collusion between Hong Kong separatists and external forces.
As the U.S. administration has taken an increasingly hawkish turn on China, economists agree that the U.S. high tariffs plan on Chinese imports will backfire.
A potential trade war between China and the United States would benefit nobody but rather deal a blow to all economies, Singaporean Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat said Thursday.
At the invitation of Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Chinese president, Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), paid an unofficial visit to China from Sunday to Wednesday.
A bigger trade picture is far more beneficial than trying to overly-protect a single sector and protectionism is raising risks of setting back global trade, Japan-based experts said Wednesday.
The United States is leveraging national security as excuses to block Chinese investments, which will eventually hurt the interests of US startups and consumers, experts said on Wednesday.
A trade war between the United States and China will harm both countries as well as the rules-based system of liberal trade which was once developed by the United States, an international trade professor said Wednesday.
Given these developments, the need for a meeting between the leaders of China and the DPRK was immense, especially to strengthen high-level communication and work out a plan for the future.
The U.S. and China are not predestined to clash, a renowned historian at Yale University has said.
Despite the rift between the United States and Europe, their united response to the spy poisoning row by expelling Russian diplomats reflects their anxiety amid a profoundly changing international landscape.` The collective response by the West came after Sergei Skripal, formerly a Russian intelligence officer convicted in Russia for spying for Britain, and his daughter Yulia were found unconscious in the southern English city of Salisbury on March 4.
