Trade wars
Penfolds maker tweaks shipments as it eyes end of Chinese tariffs
Treasury Wine Estates took a profit hit despite raising prices for several of its brands as demand for budget wines such as 19 Crimes and Wolf Blass faltered.
- by Jessica Yun
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Higher and higher: America keeps raising its fence against China
Concerned about the transfer of know-how for military or intelligence-gathering applications, the Biden administration restricts investments by US firms in Chinese tech companies.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
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China
China’s exports are crashing. Is this the end of the world’s factory?
A weak domestic economy and structural shifts in global trade since the pandemic have triggered a massive slump in China’s trade performance.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Australia-China relations thaw after Chalmers-Liu meeting
For the first time in four years, the chief finance ministers of Australia and China have held a face-to-face meeting.
- by Shane Wright
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China relations
What does the US really think about China? We just got some more clues
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen had to tread carefully on her four-day visit to Beijing.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
US may curb China access to cloud services like Amazon
Washington is considering requiring cloud providers to seek government permission before serving some Chinese firms, the Wall Street Journal reports.
- by Edwin Chan
Mission Impossible? Yellen visits China to ease tensions amid deep divisions
US government officials have downplayed expectations for major breakthroughs on the treasury secretary’s four-day trip, which begins when she arrives in Beijing on Thursday.
- by Alan Rappeport, Keith Bradsher and Ana Swanson
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Critical minerals
China is threatening to use its major trade weapon
China dominates the production of many critical raw materials for advanced technologies, and is willing to weaponise that.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
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AI
America’s ‘high fence’ around its technology ‘yard’ is getting bigger
New restrictions on exports of technologies critical to developing the advanced semiconductors needed for artificial intelligence have been announced in the Netherlands and are imminent in the US.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
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China relations
China’s premier dials up the heat on the West’s ‘de-risking’ push
Premier Li Qiang has warned of potential confrontation if the efforts by the US, Europe and others to reduce their dependence on China for strategic products go too far.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
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Regional security
Europe’s new economic security plan is aimed at the country whose name shall not be spoken
The European Commission this week unveiled a new economic security plan aimed at limiting its exports of strategic technologies to China while strengthening screening of sensitive inbound investments to Europe.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz