On April 26, a group of 12 Shanghai petitioners traveling to Beijing via the railway got off the train at Langfang, a city about 40 miles south of Beijing, hoping to avoid the checkpoints at Beijing Railway Station.
China’s ambassador to Canada says Beijing will remove its tariffs on Canadian canola and agricultural products if Ottawa lifts the levies on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs).
Speaking at a Nov. 26 reception in Beijing marking the 55th anniversary of the two countries’ diplomatic ties, May added that she looks forward to welcoming Prime Minister Mark Carney to Beijing where he will meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, according
Prime Minister Mark Carney made a deal with Chinese leaders during his visit to Beijing in January to allow Chinese EVs into Canada in exchange for China removing or reducing some tariffs on Canadian agricultural and seafood products.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Sept. 27 that Beijing recently sought a change in rhetoric from Washington on Taiwan—asking the United States to state that it would "oppose" Taiwan independence.
Another think tank based in Beijing, the Transition Institute on Social Economic Research, was shut down by Chinese authorities in 2013 amid a clampdown on rights activists.
Alberta lawyer Roger Song moved to Canada 25 years ago from China to distance himself from a regime he says he could no longer live under. Having witnessed the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre—when government forces opened fire on unarmed students demanding democratic reform—he says he saw Canada as a place of freedom where he and […]
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The fast depreciation of the Chinese yuan suggests a deliberate attempt by Beijing to partially offset the impact of tariffs, according to China analysts and economists.
But Brussels and Beijing have floated the idea of lifting these tariffs through potential guarantees of minimum prices, known as price undertakings for imported cars.
Chinese authorities updated export control laws to cover recommendation algorithms such as the one used by TikTok amid U.S. government scrutiny over the app, giving Beijing control over potential sales of such code.
A closer-than-expected relationship between the Cook Islands and Beijing has been suddenly revealed by an announcement that its Prime Minister Mark Brown is to make a state visit to China—reportedly as soon as Feb. 7—where he will sign what his government
The 10 percent tariffs ordered by President Donald Trump on all goods imported from China went into effect on Tuesday, with Beijing responding with counter-tariffs on the same day.
The Chinese official allegedly implied that the escalating hacking activity was due to Washington’s growing support for Taiwan, the democratically governed island that Beijing claims as a part of communist China.
In recent years, several incidents of underwater cables being damaged across the globe have been linked to Beijing, with Chinese cargo ships implicated multiple times.
More progress is needed to convince Beijing to grant rare earth licences to German manufacturers, the German finance minister said on Dec. 8 during a visit to China.
