China and the US are set to begin a second round of high-level talks aimed at averting a trade war, amid signs of the Trump administration’s internal divide over how to deal with Beijing.
OneSpace, a startup based in Beijing, on Thursday became the country’s first private company to launch its own rocket.
Geoffrey Crothall has worked for the last 10 years at China Labour Bulletin, a Hong Kong-based organization dedicated to supporting the workers’ movement in China. He currently serves as the group’s Communications Director. He first lived in China in 1984 and was the South China Morning Post’s Beijing correspondent from 1991 to 1996.
The August 2015 Tianjin explosion claimed 173 lives, and the 24-year-old firefighter Pang Ti was one of them. That disaster at a chemical warehouse, caused by mismanagement and lax oversight, put his parents Pang Fangguo and Fang Zhiying among the more than one million “shidu” families in China.
In the future, China must do more than simply open up the manufacturing sector and lift restrictions on foreign shareholders and the scope of business foreigners can conduct. China will also need to accelerate the opening-up of the service industries, substantially loosen restrictions on access to markets, and promote the orderly opening up of service industries like finance, education, culture, and health care. In addition to actively inviting the rest of the world to participate in its economy, Chinese businesses must also improve the way they “walk out.” China should encourage and lead its businesses to improve the way they use both foreign and domestic markets and resources to make rational overseas investments and operate in compliance with regulations.
China’s list of economic and trade demands that suggest its negotiating position.
ZTE case offers insight into Trump’s way of doing business.
Disputed territories including south Tibet, Taiwan and the South China Sea were omitted.
Status as Belt and Road posterchild at risk as Mahathir vows to review Chinese projects.
