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...Mr Lai, who is awaiting trial for participating last year in a peaceful march that did not have police authorisation, this week urged US President Donald Trump to pressure his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping...
...Donald Trump began imposing punitive tariffs in the summer of 2018, fuelling a two-year decline in bilateral trade and investment flows between the world’s largest economies....
...The US and China on December 13 reached a limited agreement to pause the trade war between the countries, and President Donald Trump has said he will travel to Beijing at an unspecified later date to begin...
...The US tariffs were imposed in September as President Donald Trump threatened to impose punitive taxes on all Chinese imports....
...Julian Evans-Pritchard, senior economist with Capital Economics, said the figures “hint at waning demand for industrial output” and that factory gate deflation would place further pressure on manufacturing...
...Mr Evans-Pritchard said Capital Economics had pencilled in a drop to Rmb7.30 by the end of 2019, and to Rmb7.50 by the end of 2020....
...US president Donald Trump has bragged on Twitter that companies are fleeing China to avoid tariffs....
...The outlook for a recovery of trade with the US remains dim after Donald Trump last week said he would impose a 10 per cent tariff on a further $300bn of Chinese exports in September....
...Last week, the US president Donald Trump raised tariffs to 25 per cent on $200bn of Chinese goods. Beijing retaliated on Monday by increasing levies on about $60bn of US imports....
...The ongoing US-China trade war returned to the fore this week after US president Donald Trump threatened to raise tariffs on Chinese goods from Friday, briefly throwing the next round of talks into doubt...
...It is hard to guess which bête noire annoys the Chinese Communist party more — Donald Trump or the majority of Hong Kong’s electorate who regularly vote for pro-democracy candidates in local elections....
...“We see more weakness on the horizon,” said Julian Evans-Pritchard, China economist at Capital Economics....
...US president Donald Trump earlier in the week opened the door to extending the talks beyond the current March 1 deadline....
...However, Julian Evans-Pritchard, senior China economist at Capital Economics, said even if a deal were reached “the downbeat outlook for global growth means that this year is likely to be challenging for...
...[Donald] Trump’s tariffs.”...
...The GDP result follows financial loosening measures by Chinese policymakers, and comes amid a series of building pressures, including the renminbi’s depreciation, an escalating trade war with Donald Trump...
...Last week China announced a retaliatory tariff list on $60bn of US imports after US president Donald Trump told trade officials to scope raising proposed tariffs on $200bn of Chinese imports to 25 per cent...
...Brent crude prices have climbed back to $72 a barrel and may spike further if Donald Trump re-imposes sanctions on Iran in early May. Let's start with the Yuan....
...Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (a Brexit voter) is on fine form in the Telegraph. Brexiteers, bring out your black suits of mourning. Grieve with private dignity....
...Julian Evans-Pritchard at Capital Economics said the comments could provide President Donald Trump with an opportunity to back down from his tariff threats while claiming a victory of sorts....
...“It’s such a mess, let’s just try something different,” Ms Pritchard said. As she spoke, a group of young men walked past, belching operatically. “Welcome to Doncaster,” she shrugged....
...He added that while Donald Trump’s policies of deregulation in the US could boost the North American economy, the picture in the UK and Europe would be more mixed....
...Julian Evans-Pritchard at Capital Economics said that despite an uptick at the end of the second quarter, Chinese trade growth now appeared to be on a downward trend....
...Some of the slowdown in 2017 can be explained by a bumper year for advertising in 2016, boosted by spending for the Rio Olympic Games and Donald Trump’s presidential election campaign....
...Industrial commodity prices are barely changed too, while benchmark bond yields are mildly mixed as few investors are willing to make fresh bold bets on whether Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump will win the...
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