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Who will Trump’s trade war hit next? Fears of a ‘tariff cascade’ threaten global trade as U.S. allies gripe about ‘economic self-harm’

Governments around the world are wondering what else is coming—and which country might get hit with a White House tariff broadside.

Fortune

China can live with Trump’s tariffs – his bullish foreign policy will help Beijing in the long term

By turning his back on US allies and global institutions, Trump will help Xi Jinping advance his plan for a China-centric world, says Steve Tsang, director of the China Institute at Soas University of London

The Guardian - UK

China has only one real way to hit its 2025 growth target

The stimulus packages Beijing rolled out won’t do the trick—and they aren’t really stimulative.

Fortune

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Former Meta says Mark Zuckerberg worked 'hand in glove' with Beijing

A former Meta director has accused the company of going to extreme lengths to gain access to the Chinese market.

Fortune

Dalai Lama says his successor will be born in ‘free world’ outside China

Dalai Lama warns any Beijing-appointed figure will lack legitimacy

The Independent UK

China Wraps Up Key Political Meet With Call For 'Unrelenting Struggle'

China on Tuesday concluded one of its biggest political events of the year with a call to "struggle unrelentingly" for the country's rise after a conclave dominated by a deepening confrontation with the United States, its largest trading partner.

International Business Times

Dalai Lama Book Offers 'Framework' For After His Death

The Dalai Lama published a book Tuesday he says is a "framework for the future of Tibet", to guide compatriots in relations with Beijing after his death.

International Business Times

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Why China isn’t as worried about Trump’s trade war as in 2018

Beijing is much better positioned to withstand US tariffs than during Trump’s first administration, analysts say.

Al Jazeera

Confronting backlash against women's rights, 193 nations commit to speed action on gender equality

The U.N.’s 193 member nations have made a commitment to accelerate action on more than a dozen fronts to achieve gender equality

The Independent UK

China's six-year-olds are already being offered AI classes in school in a bid to train the next generation of DeepSeek founders

Other countries like Estonia, England, Canada, South Korea, and America are training students on how to use AI too.

Fortune

China's annual political meetings feature minority delegates in tribal finery with a message

Every year in early March, China’s rubber-stamp legislature and its advisory body gather to hear speeches and hold discussions in the capital, Beijing.

The Independent UK

Monday briefing: As China works out a path for the Trump era, it has plenty of its own problems to deal with

As the annual Two Sessions summit comes to an end, here’s what we learned about Beijing’s priorities, its economic woes – and the opportunity it sees in the second Trump term

The Guardian - UK

As undersea cables break off Europe and Taiwan, proving sabotage is tough

Officials have pointed to China and Russia as likely culprits, but legal challenges make prosecutions difficult.

Al Jazeera

Why China’s president hasn’t called Trump about US tariff trade war

The leaders of both Canada and Mexico got on the phone with the president to seek solutions - but China appears unlikely to make a similar call soon

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International Business Times

China-US Trade War Heats Up With Beijing's Tariffs To Take Effect

Trade tensions between the world's two leading economies are set to escalate on Monday, as Beijing begins levying tariffs on certain US agricultural goods in retaliation for President Donald Trump's latest hike on Chinese imports.

International Business Times

US Takes Rivalry With China To The High Seas

The United States may still have the world's most powerful navy but it seems to have realised that this is no longer sufficient to reassert US supremacy over the high seas.

International Business Times

Families Of MH370 Victims In China Seek End To Decade Of 'Torment'

Relatives of Chinese passengers lost on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 gathered in Beijing on Saturday seeking answers from authorities 11 years after the plane disappeared in one of aviation's greatest enduring mysteries.

The Independent UK

Jennifer Dodds hails Rhona Martin for shifting stigma around women in sport

It was a moment that helped Dodds realise her commitment to sporting success need not be just a pipe dream.

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China's top diplomat blasts Trump tariffs as 'meeting good with evil' and worries about a return to 'the law of the jungle'

"If you use only pressure, China will firmly counter."

Al Jazeera

China FM vows to fight Trump tariffs, says US is ‘meeting good with evil’

Foreign Minister Wang says China has been helping US fight its fentanyl crisis, which Trump blamed for imposing tariffs.

International Business Times

China Tariffs Aimed At Trump Fan Base But Leaves Wiggle Room

China's retaliatory tariffs against US farm produce from corn to chicken are designed to hurt Donald Trump's voter base, but remain restrained enough to allow room for the adversaries to hash out a trade deal, analysts say.

International Business Times

China Will 'Firmly Counter' US Trade Pressure: Top Diplomat

China's foreign minister on Friday vowed Beijing would "firmly counter" US pressure, after Donald Trump heaped tariffs on Chinese goods and torched off a trade war between the world's two largest economies.

The Independent UK

China slams US tariffs, says its economy is resilient but there are no winners in a trade war

China's commerce minister says Beijing will not yield to bullying and its economy can weather tariffs and other challenges, though there are “no winners in a trade war."

Latin Times

China Vows To Fight US Trade War 'To The End'

Beijing set an ambitious annual growth target of around five percent this week, vowing to make domestic demand its main economic driver as the escalating trade confrontation with the United States hit exports.

The Independent UK

China’s conviction of 1,500 prisoners of conscience a ‘crime against humanity’

Report by rights group claims Beijing disproportionately targets women activists, Tibetans and Uyghurs through arbitrary detention

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