Chinese Vice Premier Ma Kai met with
French Minister of Finance Michel Sapin in Paris in 2016 and the two agreed to deepen ties between the two countries. So how is their guanxi?
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With a growing number of Chinese firms investing in France, new concepts are being introduced, including « guanxi », a reciprocal and emotional relationship between business partners.
Trump will soon learn the costs of going it alone on trade.
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American lawmakers in the 1930s learned the hard way what happens when a country raises tariffs and makes other unilateral trade decisions.
Possible future Irish border.
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Any Brexit that takes Northern Ireland out of the customs union will have a significant impact.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (front left) joins other world leaders for the APEC summit in Danang, Vietnam.
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At APEC 2017, the region’s two biggest powers presented clearly different visions of the region’s economic future.
Johannesburg has become a regional retail hub with cross border shopping activity running into billions.
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Johannesburg’s central business district is developing into a major cross border shopping hub, servicing the broader sub-Saharan region and has a potential to grow even further.
The breaks are on for BAE’s Eurofighter Typhoon production.
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We are witnessing the transformation of the existing defence business into one which embraces the new.
Deal or no deal?
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Publishing plans for a no-deal Brexit will not help the UK’s negotiating position.
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Crunching the numbers on 14 years of trading shows one of the assumptions about global markets is looking fragile.
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China’s bid for an infrastructure blitz to drive overland trade through to Europe will end up being overshadowed.
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The countries doing innovative deals with trading partners have one key difference with a post-Brexit UK.
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Major nations make labour rights a key part of trade deals. But what happens next?
A trade official from the United States walks past a sign Monday where Canadian, American and Mexican officials are holding North American free trade talks in Ottawa.
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There’s been a lot of rhetoric in the air about the fate of NAFTA, especially from the U.S. president. But its demise is extremely unlikely.
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Too many economists have refused to take seriously the idea that Brexit could economically benefit the UK.
Indonesian workers hold placards during an anti-WTO rally at a main roundabout in Jakarta.
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A trade dispute between Australia and Indonesia shines a spotlight on Australia’s controversial ‘anti-dumping’ practices at the World Trade Organisation.
Apple’s products would be a lot more expensive if the U.S. didn’t trade with China.
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The president said he’s considering ending trade with any country that does business with North Korea. Here’s why that will never happen.
The leaders of the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa alliance.
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The sub-imperial formation called BRICS, which pretends to be a progressive global force could be divided by a series of crises.
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Never mind NAFTA – Canada’s quiet efforts to boost trade with China should be ringing alarm bells given Chinese human rights abuses, and raises questions about whether Beijing has demanded secrecy.
Things could soon get complicated.
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A breakdown of the UK’s position paper on the customs union.
The Constitution may burst Trump’s threat to withdraw from NAFTA.
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As the Trump team begins renegotiating NAFTA with Canada and Mexico, a key plank in its strategy – a threat to withdraw – may be a hollow one.
The U.S. is slapping tariffs on China-made aluminum, which could lead to a trade war.
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Some fear that recent actions against China taken by the Trump administration mean we’re on the verge of a trade war. What would be the cost?