US-China trade war

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

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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.”

Xi Jinping has just rewritten the rules of US-China rivalry

US President Donald Trump (right) gestures to China’s President Xi Jinping as he leaves after a visit to Zhongnanhai Garden in Beijing, on May 15.

China renews import permits for US beef plants as Xi, Trump meet

The beef import licence renewals come as US President Donald Trump meets Chinese leader Xi Jinping in the first visit by a sitting American leader in nearly a decade.

Xi warns Trump mishandling Taiwan issue could lead to ‘conflict’

Mr Xi Jinping called Taiwan the most important issue in China-US relations in his meeting with Mr Donald Trump.

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