TEHRAN, September 18 -The United States is ready to negotiate a trade deal with China whenever Beijing is prepared for serious talks that will reduce tariffs and eliminate non-tariff trade barriers, top White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said on Monday.
TEHRAN, September 18 -The U.S. Air Force is predicting it will need to grow sharply over the next decade or so, boosting the number of operational squadrons by nearly a quarter to stay ahead of increasingly muscular militaries in China and Russia, officials said.
TEHRAN, September 18 - China said Tuesday it will take "counter-measures" to U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to raise tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese imports and an American business group warned a "downward spiral" in their trade battle appears certain.
TEHRAN, September 18 - The Trump administration will impose tariffs on $200 billion more in Chinese goods starting next week, escalating a trade war between the world's two biggest economies and potentially raising prices on goods ranging from handbags to bicycle tires.
TEHRAN, September 17 - A widely read Chinese newspaper says China will not be content only to play defense in an escalating trade war with the administration of US President Donald Trump.
TEHRAN, September 16 - US President Donald Trump has decided to impose tariffs on some $200 billion in Chinese goods, a decision that sources within his administration say he will make public in the coming days.
TEHRAN, September 16 -A super typhoon made landfall in China's Guangdong province on Sunday, the country's most populous, after wreaking havoc in Hong Kong and Macau and potentially killing more than 50 people in the Philippines.
TEHRAN, September 14 - Philippine authorities were evacuating thousands of people from the path of the most powerful typhoon this year, closing schools, readying bulldozers for landslides and placing rescuers and troops on full alert in the country's north.
TEHRAN, September 14 - The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on a China-based tech firm, its North Korean CEO and a Russian subsidiary, accusing them of moving illicit funding to North Korea in violation of U.S. sanctions.
TEHRAN, September 13 - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is traveling to China to discuss economic agreements, as the crisis-struck OPEC nation seeks to convince its key Asian financier to disburse fresh loans.
TEHRAN, September 13 - Two-thirds of American companies in China say they have been hurt by the spiraling U.S.-Chinese tariff war, two chambers of commerce reported Thursday, and they appealed to Washington and Beijing to restart negotiations aimed at a settlement.
TEHRAN, September 13 - Eleven people were killed and 44 injured after a car plowed into a crowded square in southern China and the driver attacked people with a knife and spade seeking "revenge" on society for previous criminal convictions, the government said on Thursday.
TEHRAN, September 13 - Russia, Iran, Europe and China will intensify work in coming days to counter unilateral US sanctions and Washington’s efforts to undermine a 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran, Sergei Ryabkov says.
TEHRAN, September 12 -Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping have slammed economic protectionism, pledging to work together to counter the trend, widely practiced by the current United States administration, including against Moscow and Beijing.
TEHRAN, September 12 -Even after 14 outbreaks of African swine fever across China in just over a month, pig farmer Wang Wu does not believe the threat to his livelihood is real.
TEHRAN, September 12 - Russia began its biggest war games since the fall of the Soviet Union on Tuesday close to its border with China, mobilising 300,000 troops in a show of force that will include joint exercises with the Chinese army.
TEHRAN, September 12 - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, speaking in Vladivostok after meeting Chinese leader Xi Jinping, said on Wednesday they had agreed to work toward an October visit by him to China, the latest sign of warming ties between the Asian rivals.
TEHRAN, September 11 - China will ask the World Trade Organization next week for permission to impose sanctions on the United States, for Washington’s non-compliance with a ruling in a dispute over U.S. dumping duties that China initiated in 2013, a meeting agenda showed on Tuesday.
TEHRAN, September 10 - The Chinese Foreign Ministry says Beijing will respond if the United States takes any new steps on trade after Washington threatened to levy additional taxes on practically all Chinese imports.
TEHRAN, September 10 -A forecast double-digit jump in spending by Chinese pet owners on their furry companions this year has been met with disbelief and even hostility on Chinese social media, with the world's second-biggest economy expected to further cool.