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Beijing bought $14-billion worth of chipmaking equipment from the Netherlands and other countries this year, before they imposed bans to compliment the US-led effort
China seems poised to the end the year on a high too, with the final two months of the year seen as seasonally high for vehicle sales
If approved, the new measures will apply specifically to auditors that have been hired by domestic firms or are conducting cross-border work
The US is racing to establish a rare earth supply chain separate from China following Beijing’s increasingly aggressive moves to restrict its exports of rare earths to the country...
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Chinese Firms May Soon Need To Transfer Tech To Invest In Europe15 Oct 2025
The EU has emerged as a key market for Chinese firms due to increasing competition and deflationary pressures at home and tough policies that deter their expansion in the US...
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China Starts Collecting Tit-For-Tat Port Fees On US-Owned Ships14 Oct 2025
The trade war between US and China is now ensnaring ocean shipping firms that move everything from holiday toys to crude oil...
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‘Can Destroy China’: Trump Says Beijing Has to Give US Magnets26 Aug 2025
'We're going to have a lot of magnets in a pretty short period of time. In fact, we'll have so many we won't know what to do with them,' the US President said...
China has published its five-year development plan for 2026-2030 and for the first time in 15 years, new energy vehicles are not included in its list of strategic emerging industries...
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China’s BYD Sees Sales in the UK Jump by 880% – BBC07 Oct 2025
Britain has emerged as key market for BYD, as it is the only European nation with no tariffs on exported electric and hybrid vehicles from China...
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China’s Policies Have Pushed Its Auto Industry Near to Collapse17 Sep 2025
Carmakers and dealers are struggling to make money in the world’s biggest auto market and oversupply, along with fierce competition, has left scores of firms on the brink of collapse...
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China Markets Sink on Tech Selloff, Talk of Regulatory Curbs04 Sep 2025
China's blue-chip index fell the most in nearly five months with Shanghai stocks down more than 1.3% and the Hang Seng also sinking over 1%...
The number of low-value packages sent to the bloc doubled last year to 4.6 billion, mostly from China, and European retailers want the flood stopped quickly....
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Amid Fears Of An AI Bubble, Indian Equities Become Surprise Hedge12 Nov 2025
After a year of losing out on a frenzy of global investments, India could soon find some gains from being on the backfoot in the global AI trade ...
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SoftBank Q2 Profit Soars on OpenAI Bet, Sale of Nvidia Shares11 Nov 2025
CEO Masayoshi Son has bet big on OpenAI – over $30 billion – while selling his company's shares in Nvidia last month; those moves have paid worthy returns so far, but will the 'AI bubble' pop?...
BYD has been building factories for local assembly in countries such as Hungary and Brazil and it plans a third plant for Europe, with Spain the top candidate....
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Germany to Review Its Policies on China, As Trade Tensions Rise10 Nov 2025
Germany's coalition government plans to re-examine its China policies in regard to energy, raw material imports and Chinese investment in critical German infrastructure...
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India’s Big Plans To Decarbonise Industries Struggle To Take Off04 Nov 2025
Of the 53 clean-industry projects the country has in development, only two managed to reach a final investment decision this year...
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