Tag: China

November 14, 2023

President Biden is slated to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in San Francisco on Wednesday during the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. There is a lot for the two to discuss, from Taiwan to to fentanyl to artificial […]

October 31, 2023

“We are seeing a strong ramp up of shipments in emerging markets by vendors like Xiaomi and Transsion,” says IDC’s Nabila Popal, “while this is a good sign of approaching recovery, vendors must keep a close eye on sell-through to […]

October 5, 2023

A group of U.S. senators recently urged the Biden administration to address troubling import trends in textile and apparel imports that threaten domestic manufacturers and the jobs they represent. The U.S. textile industry employs approximately half a million Americans and […]

September 27, 2023

Supply chain disruptions are easing. That’s the takeaway from a recent survey of large companies – firms with annual revenues from $500 million to $50 billion – that said their losses attributed to such problems halved in 2022 as compared […]

September 13, 2023

China will likely be the world’s largest auto exporter in 2023, but it’s a title that comes with dubious glory. For decades, European, American and Japanese cars have dominated world auto exports, but massive auto overcapacity in China has made […]

August 28, 2023

Economists, financial leaders, and central bank officials from around the globe flew into Jackson Hole, Wyoming over the weekend for the annual Jackson Hole Symposium, which examined some of the big shifts happening in the global economy. One of the […]

August 3, 2023

Reuters published a story Thursday examining the increasingly hawkish stance toward China taken by the top GOP presidential candidates on the campaign trail, noting that several of them are now calling for an end to China’s normalized trade status. Now, […]

July 13, 2023

Another call has been made for the U.S. government to reconsider the trade status that grants Chinese imports a lower tariff rate. They’re starting to stack up. This was once the territory of trade hawks, but no more. After two […]

June 28, 2023

Potential new restrictions on the sale of artificial intelligence semiconductors to China could come with a hefty long-term cost for the American chip industry—and another setback for U.S. relations with Beijing. The potential export controls would prevent Nvidia NVDA -1.81%decrease; […]

June 15, 2023

Audi’s CEO, Markus Duesmann, recently spoke about the company’s plans to expedite the development of new electric vehicle (EV) models to meet the increasing demand, especially in China. In an interview with Reuters, Duesmann acknowledged the need for faster production […]

May 30, 2023

Early last week, China’s Commerce Minister Wang Wentao, after a meeting m Korean Trade Minister Ahn Duk-geun, said the two countries had agreed to strengthen dialogue and cooperation on semiconductor industry supply chains. However, a Korean government statement on the […]

May 22, 2023

China’s cyberspace regulator said that Micron had failed its network security review but did not say on what grounds. As most of Micron’s China sales are to consumer chstomers it may not hit Micron particularly hard. “We firmly oppose restrictions […]

April 17, 2023

Deputy United States Trade Representative Sarah Bianchi alluded to the possible imposition of further tariffs on Chinese imports while speaking at the Center on Inclusive Trade and Development’s inaugural Rethinking World Trade 2023 conference on April 13. In her remarks, […]

April 5, 2023

China has gone to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to try and get it to intervene in the denial of chip-making equipment exports to China by the US, Japan and the Netherlands. The three countries have agreed to ban exports […]

February 24, 2023

Ford Motor Co. promoted Sam Wu to head its China business as the American auto maker struggles to reverse its dwindling market share in the world’s biggest car market. Mr. Wu, who joined Ford China as managing director from Whirlpool […]

February 6, 2023

If the pact also includes a ban on Western technicians going over to China to keep installed machines running, then existing China semiconductor operations will be severely affected. The pact is a smart move by the Americans who, no doubt, […]

January 25, 2023

The South China Morning Post has reported that China has published a new ‘Robot +’ Application Action Plan laying out 10 industries where it wants to use more robots, as the country rushes to automate sectors from manufacturing to agriculture […]

January 24, 2023

Ford Motor Co. is in talks with Chinese electric-vehicle maker BYD Co. over the sale of a manufacturing plant in Germany, according to people familiar with the discussions. Officials from Ford‘s management in Germany are planning to travel to China […]

January 24, 2023

Iprobably don’t need to remind readers of this blog that the conventional wisdom for decades from much of the American elite was that offshoring U.S. production was totally the way to go. The thinking went that as long as the […]

January 6, 2023

Chinese drugmaker CanSino Biologics Inc. started trial production of a vaccine targeting new variants of Covid-19 that are behind the country’s current outbreak, which would be among the first developed in China using the mRNA technology that drove inoculation in […]