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Ever since Mr Trump’s first small tranche of tariffs back in 2018, Chinese officials have repeated the same dictum. “If you ...

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As trade tensions escalate with the US, weakness in investment, industrial output and retail sales is undermining momentum from record sales abroad. Data due on Monday from China’s National Bureau of ...

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As trade tensions escalate with the US, weakness in investment, industrial output and retail sales is undermining momentum ...

The first chart shows annual price increases in New Zealand for businesses (PPI: Producers Price Index) and consumers (CPI: Consumers Price Index), since 1999. We note that the latest CPI datapoint is ...

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China’s factories kept the country on track to reach this year’s growth target, powered by an export boom that’s papering ...

Japan’s parliament has appointed Sanae Takaichi, the conservative China hawk, as the first woman prime minister of the ...