Liu He

Hasan Piker’s China tour draws fire after viral Tiananmen police encounter

29 Nov 2025 - 1:18AM

Robotics

China’s ceramics-and-furniture hub Foshan bets on robotics with new funds

Foshan launched two industrial funds worth at least US$488 million combined, to be ‘professionally managed’ for the robotics industry.

27 Aug 2025 - 8:00AM

Foshan Vice Mayor Liu Jie (second from left) is shown Kuka’s new industrial robot on Tuesday. Photo: Handout

China debt

Why did a Chinese economist slam Ray Dalio on debt situations in US, China?

Xu Gao’s 9,000-word article, ‘Where Did Dalio Go Wrong on National Debt?’, comes as China’s Politburo is preparing to set policy tone for rest of year.

29 Jul 2025 - 10:56PM

Did China’s ‘skilled’ negotiators help break the US trade deadlock?

US officials praised the negotiating style of Chinese counterpart He Lifeng at the successful talks, where Li Chenggang made his debut.

13 May 2025 - 5:24PMvideocam

How Trump’s tariff chaos is bringing China’s ‘trade circle of friends’ closer

Washington’s hardline approach is likely to boost Beijing’s ties with Brazil and Latin America in general, according to analysts.

1 May 2025 - 12:22AM

What did China’s Xi Jinping achieve on his trip to Southeast Asia?

Xi was hoping to galvanise support for a united front against US tariffs. Each country had its own response, observer says.

21 Apr 2025 - 8:38PMvideocam

How China’s sharper view of US has rewritten its trade war playbook

Beijing’s tougher tariff response reflects new understanding of Washington’s aims under Trump 2.0, analysts say.

17 Apr 2025 - 11:56PMvideocam

US-China decoupling

US and China decouple

Trump’s latest volley against China – pledging an additional 50 per cent in tariffs – puts paid to any hopes of quickly fixing the bilateral trade relationship.

8 Apr 2025 - 5:00PM

Employees work on a production line of caps for export to the United States at a factory in Suqian, eastern China’s Jiangsu province. Photo: AFP

China-Japan relations

China coastguard drives off Japanese fishing boats in escalating island dispute

Tokyo accuses Beijing of stoking tensions after Chinese ships expel four vessels from the vicinity of the Diaoyu Islands.

25 Mar 2025 - 3:50PM

The Diaoyus, known in Japan as the Senkakus, comprise five uninhabited islets and three reefs, located 169km east of Taiwan and 409km west of Okinawa. Photo: Kyodo

Hong Kong stock market

Global banks: Chinese stock rally not over yet

‘A short-term fluctuation doesn’t equal a pullback, and markets might go up if there are new catalysts,’ CICC Research analyst says.

12 Mar 2025 - 8:30AM

China-Africa relations

China may be prepared to join Zambia debt deal: US treasury secretary Yellen

Janet Yellen met her Chinese counterpart, Liu He, in Zurich on Wednesday. ‘I definitely think they get what the problem is, and that there needs to be a solution,’ she said on Saturday.

22 Jan 2023 - 5:44AM

‘Life’s been restored’: China’s economy will return to normal, vice-premier says

Vice-Premier Liu He tells the World Economic Forum that China is getting back to normal more quickly than expected after lifting its zero-Covid policies last month.

18 Jan 2023 - 9:24AMvideocam

Liu He addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday. Photo: EPA-EFE

Top China, US trade officials to meet face to face in Zurich

Washington says aim of Yellen’s meeting with Liu is to ‘deepen communication’; Beijing calls the meeting ‘policy coordination’.

17 Jan 2023 - 9:21AMvideocam

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, seen in October, will meet her Chinese counterpart face-to-face for the first time this week. Photo: AP

VP Liu He to represent China at World Economic Forum, ministry confirms

Liu’s attendance in Davos, Switzerland, will be the first by a Chinese leader since the Covid-19 pandemic.

14 Jan 2023 - 1:07AM

Diplomacy

Exclusive | Chinese Vice-Premier Liu He to attend Davos next week, sources say

It will be the first time a top Chinese leader has travelled to the World Economic Forum meeting since the pandemic began.

9 Jan 2023 - 7:04PMvideocam

China’s 20th Party Congress

China’s economic tsar ‘highly confident’ of recovery, mulls property-sector aid

China will see an economic recovery next year and is mulling new measures to support the beleaguered real estate market, Vice-Premier Liu He said on Thursday.

16 Dec 2022 - 1:12PM

China has in recent months rolled out measures to support the debt-laden property sector. Photo: Xinhua

Economic and finance shake-up on China’s Central Committee

Reshuffle follows Central Committee retirements, banking crises and Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign but scope of changes prompts uncertainty.

22 Oct 2022 - 8:16PMvideocam

China’s 20th Party Congress

China’s Covid slowdown raises spectre of middle-income trap

Chinese officials have trumpeted dazzling economic figures to make the case that the country can escape the middle-income trap, but some inconvenient statistics point to a worrying trend for the world’s second-largest economy.

20 Jul 2022 - 6:00AMvideocam

‘Constructive’ US-China talks not expected to end long-standing rivalry

Some analysts say any move by Washington to cut tariffs on Chinese goods would be solely in the US’ own interests, rather than signal an abrupt change in President Biden’s China policy.

7 Jul 2022 - 4:04PM

Top economic officials from China and the United States on Tuesday held their first talks since October. Photo: Shutterstock

Coronavirus China

Home-grown vaccine back on the agenda, China energises ‘scientific’ strategy

Remarks by Vice-Premier Liu He suggest vaccine development remains on the agenda for China, with clinical trials of a home-grown Omicron jab having started in Zhejiang.

1 Jun 2022 - 6:30AMvideocam

clinical trials of a home-grown Omicron jab having started in Zhejiang province earlier this month. Photo: Xinhua

Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA)

Questions raised after China claims economy will ‘soon’ return to normal

The nation’s propaganda machine is churning out pro-growth statements and defending coronavirus-control measures, but some question the official data and say greater policy support is needed.

18 May 2022 - 8:57PMvideocam

Editorial | Hong Kong borrowers had better get ready for series of interest rate rises

With the US Fed forecasting at least six more increases this year, and more to follow, the city being pegged to the US dollar is bound to feel their cumulative effect.

23 Mar 2022 - 7:30AMvideocam

China’s crackdowns

China’s regulators may ease the pressure on Big Tech companies in 2022

The shift in policy comes as Chinese Vice-Premier Liu He called for order and transparency in regulators’ dealings with the country’s Big Tech firms.

19 Mar 2022 - 2:12AMvideocam

Recent directives from Chinese Vice-Premier Liu He point to a policy shift after a series of crackdowns on the country’s Big Tech companies. Illustration: Shutterstock

Liu He says China to beat 2021 growth target, despite headwinds

Vice-Premier Liu He says China is on track to beat its economic growth target of ‘above 6 per cent’ this year, but numerous challenges remain – from the coronavirus to power shortages.

1 Dec 2021 - 3:24PMvideocam

Chinese Vice-Premier Liu He says China will beat its growth target of ‘above 6 per cent’ for this year. Photo: EPA-EFE