South China Morning Post - Global Economy

As the midterm “blue wave” threatens to further complicate US-China relations, American agricultural exporters are calling on Washington to focus on delivering the trade deals already agreed with Beijing and ending a period of damaging policy uncertainty. With shipments of key products such as soybeans needing to be planned months – or sometimes an entire year – ahead, US farmer...

Ahead of a new round of bilateral trade talks, the US has extended the suspension of an expanded trade blacklist that helped inflame tensions with China last year and could subject overseas subsidiaries of Chinese companies to greater scrutiny. The US Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued a final rule on Thursday extending the suspension of its 50 per cent affiliate rule ...

China’s stocks pared weekly gains and the benchmark 10-year bond hit a record low as the global artificial intelligence (AI) stock bubble burst following the US Democrats’ landslide win in midterm elections. The CSI 300 equity index fell 1.4 per cent, weighed down by AI-related shares. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index dropped 1.3 per cent. The yield on China’s 10-year sovereign bond ...

With domestic profits narrowing and production capacity expanding, China’s firms are continuing to widen their overseas footprints in search of new, more lucrative markets. In this series, we examine China Inc.’s next phase of “going global” and the complex, challenging international environment its companies have chosen to enter. A presidential election in Brazil, a country tho...

As US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent prepares to sit down with Vice-Premier He Lifeng, his Chinese counterpart, in Shenzhen later this month for trade talks ahead of the Apec summit, he will do so with weakened party support at his back following the landslide victory of the Democrats in this week’s midterm elections. Analysts said that raised questions about Washington’s abil...