7 h. ago As tariff truce deadline nears, China’s premier has a message for Brics nations

Chinese Premier Li Qiang has urged Brics nations to lead reforms of global governance, calling on member states to uphold independence and act collectively amid the threat of higher tariffs from the United States. “As the leading bloc of the Global South, Brics countries should strive to be a pioneering force in advancing the reform of global governance,” Li said in a speech at the Brics summit on Sunday. At an event widely seen as a direct challenge to the Western-led world order, the premier...

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10 h. ago China ready to promote flagship Belt and Road project, boost trade, investment with Ethiopia: Premier Li

China ready to promote flagship Belt and Road project, boost trade, investment with Ethiopia: Premier Li  China Daily

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13 h. ago Hong Kong manufacturers brace for higher costs as end of trade truce looms

A recent surge in Hong Kong’s exports masks a grim reality for frontline manufacturers, with some facing a sharp drop-off in new orders and bracing for renewed pressure on costs as a 90-day tariff truce between Washington and Beijing ends on Tuesday. Bryant Chan Wan-sing, president of toymaker the Wynnewood Corporation, said the sharp increase in orders during the truce was essentially a reinstatement of ones put on hold or cancelled when tariffs were introduced on US President Donald Trump’s...

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3 d. ago Why Christians should be keeping an eye on China’s growing influence

Why Christians should be keeping an eye on China’s growing influence  Premier Christianity Magazine

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4 d. ago ‘Loyal communist fighter’: China’s party paper hails late premier Li Keqiang

China’s Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily hailed the late former premier Li Keqiang for his steadfast dedication to the party and loyalty to its leadership, in an article published on Thursday to mark what would have been his 70th birthday. The article, attributed to the Institute of Party History and Literature, said Li had “dedicated all his energy to the cause of the party and the state, and made significant contributions to it”. Li was an “outstanding member of the party, time-tested...

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4 d. ago China pastors 'unjustly' convicted of fraud over church collection

China pastors 'unjustly' convicted of fraud over church collection  Premier Christian News

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4 d. ago China says Premier Li to visit Egypt after BRICS Brazil trip

China says Premier Li to visit Egypt after BRICS Brazil trip  The New Arab

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6 d. ago Trump tariffs live updates: Trump pursues mini trade deals as tariff deadline nears

Trump tariffs live updates: Trump pursues mini trade deals as tariff deadline nears  Yahoo Finance

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7 d. ago Deadline nears for Taiwan's Chinese immigrants to prove no China household registration

Deadline nears for Taiwan's Chinese immigrants to prove no China household registration  NPR

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9 d. ago Trump: US to tell countries ‘what they have to pay’; China, India deals coming

With the July 9 deadline for “Liberation Day” tariffs nearing, US President Donald Trump said on Friday that Washington would inform countries “what they have to pay” to do business with America “over the next week and a half or so”. His remarks came hours after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent suggested trade talks could continue to September. Trump also directed a new salvo at Canada, announcing an immediate halt to trade talks in retaliation for Ottawa’s plan to introduce a digital trade tax...

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1 week ago Hong Kong exports up 15.5% in May as firms race to beat China

Hong Kong’s exports surged 15.5 per cent in May from a year ago, with economists attributing the increase to the front-loading of shipments by businesses racing to beat the July deadline of a tariff truce between China and the United States. The value of total exports reached HK$434.1 billion (US$55.3 billion) in May, the Census and Statistics Department said on Thursday. The strong performance, which followed a 14.7 per cent increase in April, comes during a 90-day grace period on tariffs...

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1 week ago ‘Hotbed of opportunity’: Premier Li says China’s economy offers ‘certainty’

China will continue to be a land of opportunities and an engine of global growth and stability, even as the world faces rising geopolitical challenges and uncertainties, Chinese Premier Li Qiang said at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s (AIIB) Annual Meeting in Beijing. “China remains the country that contributes the greatest impetus to global economic growth, and the most significant source of certainty for world peace and development,” he said on Thursday. Li’s remarks came a day...

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1 week ago China's consumption push will support global growth, Premier Li says

China's consumption push will support global growth, Premier Li says  Reuters

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1 week ago China’s Premier Li: China will take forceful steps to boost consumption

China’s Premier Li: China will take forceful steps to boost consumption  Forexlive | Forex News, Technical Analysis & Trading Tools

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1 week ago Address by China Premier Li Qiang to the Annual Meeting of New Champions 2025

Address by China Premier Li Qiang to the Annual Meeting of New Champions 2025  The World Economic Forum

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1 week ago Not just manufacturing: Li Qiang vows China will be major consumption power

Premier Li Qiang has pledged that China will become a “consumption powerhouse” capable of fuelling domestic and global growth, even as he acknowledged the country was grappling with a slump in cross-border investment and persistent trade tensions. Speaking at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Tianjin on Wednesday, Li reiterated Beijing’s commitment to boosting demand in the world’s second-largest economy and defending globalisation. “This will make China a mega-sized consumption...

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1 week ago China’s premier vows to ‘open its doors wider’ to trade and tech industry

China’s premier vows to ‘open its doors wider’ to trade and tech industry  Financial Times

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2 w. ago Premier urges China’s Jiangsu to embrace ‘higher development expectations’

As Beijing looks to shore up China’s economic growth amid mounting challenges, Premier Li Qiang has called on Jiangsu province, a key manufacturing hub on the country’s east coast, to step up its efforts in technology, trade and consumption. During a three-day visit to the province from Monday, Li emphasised the importance of embracing innovative development, stimulating effective demand, fostering entrepreneurship, and deepening reform and opening up to support China’s sustained economic...

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3 w. ago Chinese solar firms bank on overseas expansion to survive amid US tariffs

Chinese solar and energy-storage companies will continue to press ahead with their overseas expansion with or without a long-term agreement on trade tariffs, as production abroad holds the key to their long-term survival, according to executives at China’s largest solar industry exhibition. Although the US and China reached a 90-day truce in their ongoing tariff war in May, solar panel exports from China and Southeast Asia to the US are still subject to tariffs of as much as 3,521 per cent, with...

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3 w. ago Moutai, China’s premier liquor brand, may find austerity rules hard to swallow

China’s premier liquor distiller Kweichow Moutai – a brand that had, over decades, become synonymous with sumptuous feasts – is heeding a renewed mandate for austerity from Beijing, distancing its products from the extravagant hard-drinking lifestyle with which it had been linked in the public consciousness. Management at the company, valued at 1.86 trillion yuan (US$258.73 billion), has pledged to comply with strictures stressing thrift – guidelines that have helped to remove Moutai’s expensive...

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