ECONOMY

U.S.-China Trade War Escalates: Beijing Responds

WASHINGTON/BEIJING – Minutes after U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff hikes on Chinese goods kicked in on February 4, Beijing fired …

WASHINGTON/BEIJING – U.S. President Donald Trump has announced a sweeping 10 percent tariff hike on all Chinese imports, alongside a …

BERLIN – The German government has adopted an E-Commerce Action Plan that enforces stricter controls on international online platforms such …

HANGZHOU – DeepSeek, a mainland China based company, has made headlines with the release of its open-source AI chatbot, R1. …

JAKARTA – On January 7, Indonesia formally joined BRICS, becoming the first Southeast Asian country to join the intergovernmental bloc …