‘We won’t tolerate it, nor do we think it will be successful,’ says Gina Raimondo of Beijing’s blacklisting as Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting ends in Michigan.

Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao and US Trade Representative Katherine Tai hold talks on the margin of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation session.

Algernon Yau tells Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Ministers Responsible for Trade meeting in US that dispute system hamstrung by Washington actions.

China describes talks between Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao and US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo as ‘professional and constructive’.

While in the US for Apec, Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao is scheduled to meet with his American counterpart, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, as well as US Trade Representative Katherine Tai.

Yang Weimin, vice-chairman of the Beijing-based China Centre for International Economic Exchanges, says China faces seven long-term challenges as it aims to have the same per capita gross domestic product of a mid-level developed country by 2035.

Monday’s meeting between China’s commerce minister, Wang Wentao, and American firms in Shanghai is seen as Beijing’s latest attempt to resist decoupling with Washington after ‘national security’ moves.

China has recently bolstered its relations with the likes of Ecuador, El Salvador, Brazil, Argentina and Nicaragua, even as Latin America traditionally looks to the United States as its top source of business.

Beijing has yet to comment on Friday’s announcement that Taiwan and the United States reached an accord on the first part of their 21st Century Trade Initiative.

Hong Kong will become a hub that drives technological innovation and the yuan’s internationalisation by attracting offshore Chinese currency to support listings of hi-tech companies, bourse operator HKEX says.

Premier Li Qiang spoke with Dutch counterpart Mark Rutte on Tuesday and discussed global supply chains, trade cooperation, the climate and the war in Ukraine.

Sweden remains one of only nine in the European Union that have no legal possibility of blocking foreign investments on security grounds

Recalling his small nation’s diplomatic spat with China over a Taiwan office, Gabrielius Landsbergis says Beijing pressure tactics are likely to carry on.

Provincial governors and party secretaries are told they must ‘shoulder the responsibility of food security’, as pressure from Washington and implications of the Ukraine war are straining China’s food supply.

Series of meetings this week during ambassador Nicholas Burns’ China trip represent the highest-level public engagements between the two powers since relations soured over suspected a Chinese spy balloon.

Special administration region seen uniquely positioned to serve as dialogue nexus that could help prevent economic fragmentation from devolving into bigger conflict with global ramifications.

US trade officials see role for organisations that both involve China in discussions and those that exclude it in attempts to solve supply chain issues.

AmCham China poll finds a sharp increase in negative sentiment regarding the impact of souring relations between the world’s two largest economies, but the overall outlook on China’s economy is improving.