US-China trade war

China imposes ‘national security’ rules on overseas investments

Under China’s new rules, existing curbs on cross-border transfers will extend beyond goods and data to include the export of services through sending technical experts abroad or carrying out training overseas.

China moves against US rare earth, defence firms in ‘calibrated’ response to Pentagon blacklist

Rare earth producer MP Materials is one of the 10 American firms that China imposed export controls on, in a tit-for-tat move on June 22.

China rebukes US over ‘military’ labelling of its top firms

On June 8, the Pentagon added Chinese companies Alibaba, BYD, and Baidu, among others, to a list of firms it said aid the Chinese military.

Singapore could face 12.5% US tariff after forced labour trade probe

ST20260518-202682200463-Lim Yaohui-pixgeneric/ People near the Jubilee Bridge with the Central Business District (CBD) skyline on May 18, 2026. Can be used for stories on family, money, property, land, tourist, tourism, commercial, office, invest, budget, income, finance, financial, CBD, URA, population, and economy. (ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI)

The new age of economic warfare – and why America is playing with fire

Few people are thinking harder about these questions than Matteo Maggiori, the Moghadam Family Professor of Finance at Stanford University.

Batam becomes ‘serious’ draw for Chinese firms, with S’pore still the island’s top investor

Economic agency BP Batam has seen a pick up in enquiries from Chinese businesses looking to invest in the Indonesian island.

US not in a hurry to extend China trade truce, Treasury Secretary Bessent says

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he views the most important achievements as the establishment of bilateral managed trade, investment and AI protocols with Beijing.

What Xi Jinping’s banquet seating chart said about China and America

China's President Xi Jinping (left) and US President Donald Trump attend a state banquet at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, on May 14.

Chinese factories welcome any tariff relief from Trump-Xi summit, but diversification continues

The photo taken on April 16, 2026 shows a man wheeling bags of clothes toward a wholesale clothing market in Guangzhou, in southern China's Guangdong province. Factories in Guangdong province, China's production heartland, have borne the brunt of the US president's mercurial policies and a blistering trade war that saw US levies on their goods reach an eye-watering 145 percent for many products. (Photo by Jade GAO / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY: China-trade-US-tariffs, by Isabel KUA

Trump says did not discuss tariffs during summit with China’s Xi

US President Donald Trump said on tariffs: “We didn’t discuss those... It wasn’t brought up.”

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