US-China trade war

(Sept 26): Colombia is looking to boost trade with Asian countries as it seeks to protect the nation amid a global trade war, President Ivan Duque said.

(Sept 22): China will work with other Asian countries to safeguard international trade rules, as well as the monetary and financial order, according to its former central bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan.

SINGAPORE (Sept 23): Not unlike during the Cold War, the world today is about to be split into two trading blocs with deeply rooted opposing ideologies: one faction led by the US and the other controlled by communist China.

SINGAPORE (Sept 23): Another day, another attack on trade. Why is it that every dispute — whether over intellectual property (IP), immigration, environmental damage or war reparations — now produces new threats to trade?

SINGAPORE (Sept 19): Singapore’s non-oil domestic exports (NODX) are likely to stay weak in 2019, according to RHB Group Research.

SINGAPORE (Sept 13): US President Donald Trump says he will delay increasing tariffs on US$250 billion ($344 billion) worth of Chinese goods from the initially intended date of Oct 1 to Oct 15, “as a gesture of goodwill”. Taking to Twitter on Sept 11,

WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Sept 12): US President Donald Trump on Wednesday welcomed China’s decision to exempt some US anti-cancer drugs and other goods from its tariffs and announced a short delay to scheduled tariff hikes on billions worth of Chinese goods.

(Sept 11): China announced exemptions for 16 types of U.S. products from additional retaliatory duties, in a move that comes as trade negotiators from the two countries prepare to meet later this month to try and de-escalate their protracted tariff row.

SINGAPORE (Sept 10): It may not be all doom and gloom for Singapore’s economy.