The widening trade deficit has become a major issue in China-EU economic and trade relations and a key consideration behind the EU's push to strengthen its trade policy instruments. In 2025, the EU's trade deficit in goods with China reached 359.8 billion euros ($402 billion), up 15% year on year...
The widening trade deficit has become a major issue in China-EU economic and trade relations and a key consideration behind the EU's push to strengthen its trade policy instruments. In 2025, the EU's trade deficit in goods with China reached 359.8 billion euros ($402 billion), up 15% year on year...
The global economy in 2026 is increasingly defined by divergence. Developing Asia is driving global growth while the major Western economies struggle to generate momentum.
The Asian Development Bank forecasts developing Asia and the Pacific to grow by 5.0% in real terms in 2026. That is more than three times the...
The global economy in 2026 is increasingly defined by divergence. Developing Asia is driving global growth while the major Western economies struggle to generate momentum.
The Asian Development Bank forecasts developing Asia and the Pacific to grow by 5.0% in real terms in 2026. That is more than three times the...
China will remain an anchor of stability as global growth moderates, with its vast domestic market, industrial upgrading and policy support underpinning the country's resilience, while raising household incomes and strengthening social security will be key to bolstering domestic demand, a senior economist said.
"Looking across the world's major economies, few...
China will remain an anchor of stability as global growth moderates, with its vast domestic market, industrial upgrading and policy support underpinning the country's resilience, while raising household incomes and strengthening social security will be key to bolstering domestic demand, a senior economist said.
"Looking across the world's major economies, few...
The 16-point consensus reached by China and the European Union during high-level talks in Beijing last week underscored the willingness of both sides to manage differences through dialogue, thereby helping to prevent trade frictions from escalating, observers and business leaders said.
Covering trade and investment, export controls, intellectual property rights and...
The 16-point consensus reached by China and the European Union during high-level talks in Beijing last week underscored the willingness of both sides to manage differences through dialogue, thereby helping to prevent trade frictions from escalating, observers and business leaders said.
Covering trade and investment, export controls, intellectual property rights and...
Germany blocks the acquisition of 80 percent of the Hamburg transport and logistics company Konrad Zippel Spediteur by the Chinese state shipping firm COSCO Shipping Holdings following a separate foreign investment screening on national security grounds, a statement from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action says.
The...
Germany blocks the acquisition of 80 percent of the Hamburg transport and logistics company Konrad Zippel Spediteur by the Chinese state shipping firm COSCO Shipping Holdings following a separate foreign investment screening on national security grounds, a statement from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action says.
The...
