America’s most iconic farm brand – John Deere – has established itself as a key player in Xinjiang’s immense cotton industry, even as human rights groups warn that the supply chain in the restive region is laced with the forced labour of Uygurs and other Muslim ethnic minority groups.

Four of China’s state-owned commercial banks are working with the People’s Bank of China on a large-scale internal testing of the proposed sovereign digital currency.

The coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc on global supply chains, and Japan is officially trying to diversify its supply chains and make them more resilient.

South Korean firm Samsung will no longer focus on PC assembly and manufacturing at its facility in Chinese city of Suzhou ‘due to fierce market competition’.

Former Chinese deputy finance minister Jin Liqun was re-elected president of the China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) on Tuesday.

Coronavirus lockdown measures in the US, Britain, Europe, New Zealand, and Australia have led to increased demand for sex toys made in China.

Consensus among Chinese analysts is that Washington will not ‘shoot itself in the foot’ by taking such an extreme step in financial war with China like the United States did with Iran and North Korea in the past.

Move against US firm Lockheed Martin comes more than a year after Beijing said it was forming an Unreliable Entity List of firms whose actions hurt China, but the government has not said what foreign businesses will be on the list.

A proposed new section of China’s criminal code will target theft of trade secrets by foreign entities, setting up the possibility of harsher retaliatory action against the US.

Driver drove vehicle off road and into reservoir after seeing his former home demolished to make way for redevelopment, public security officials say.

Proposal to update Article 4 of China’s copyright law includes a new clause of ‘abusive use of copyright’ that would hand regulators significant power.

China’s urbanisation drive has left some rural residents upset, amid claims cash-strapped local governments have carried out evictions without adequate compensation.

Beijing opens door to manufacturing and financial services sectors by another notch with shortened ‘negative list’, but business groups say markets are already dominated by local players.

The United States is planning new duties on European products in a 16-year dispute over aircraft subsidies.

The IMF’s World Economic Outlook has forecast China’s economy to grow 1 per cent in 2020, one of the few bright spots amid a 4.9 per cent contraction in global output.

Many fly-by-night entrants to China’s mask business are left with materials and machines worth a fraction of their investment, as the gravy train has ground to a halt.

Victory for Democrat candidate in November may pose different challenges to Beijing but both former VP and Donald Trump are seen as critics in China.

Health crisis has been a ‘catalyst for existing trends, accelerating … the deterioration of Hong Kong’s autonomy’, US academic says on Beijing’s plans for a national security law for the city.

Hong Kong’s financial industry is closely watching fallout from China’s imposition of a national security law, but US financial sanctions would be difficult to implement.

Washington’s moves so far to restrict China’s access to US capital markets are ‘skirmishes’ rather than start of all-out financial war, analysts say.

After the yuan fell to an eight-month low against the dollar earlier this week, China’s central bank has taken measures to defend the currency.

China has closed a virulent anti-US WeChat account for spreading fake news and stoking xenophobia, as Beijing moves to rein in misinformation on social media.

The coronavirus pandemic is having a deeper impact on employment in China than the severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) outbreak and the global financial crisis, experts say.

China’s small businesses are the lifeblood of the economy, but Beijing’s coronavirus support package drew mixed responses from entrepreneurs.

After Washington announces new restrictions on technology giant, Beijing says it will ‘firmly uphold Chinese firms’ legitimate and legal rights and interests’.

Research by scientist from Wuhan laboratory accused by Donald Trump of being the source of virus that sparked Covid-19 pandemic looks at how Sars-related pathogens have adapted to suit human hosts.

Analysts debate V-shaped, U-shaped L-shaped and W-shaped recoveries from the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak after April’s data remained mixed.

Optimism that the US-China trade deal could salvage bilateral ties has been killed by a dramatic break down in relations between the two superpowers amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Provinces had been operating their own codes and sometimes refusing to recognise those from other authorities.

Deputy public security minister Sun Lijun is under investigation for suspected ‘violations of discipline and the law’, according to the anti-graft watchdog.