WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States appears poised to heighten scrutiny of Chinese investment in Silicon Valley to better shield sensitive technologies seen as vital to U.S. national security, current and former U.S. officials tell Reuters.
By Phil Stewart
Of particular...
PANAMA CITY/BEIJING (Reuters) - Panama has established diplomatic ties with China and broken with Taiwan in a major victory for Beijing, as it lures away the dwindling number of countries that have formal relations with the self-ruled island.
Panamanian President...
World's biggest water transit project - In 2014 China opened an $80 billion mega tunnel to transfer water from the country's south to to the more arid and industrialized north through three canal systems.
The project has quenched the thirst...
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Apple Inc and computing giant Dell Inc will join a Foxconn-led consortium bidding for Toshiba Corp's highly prized chip unit, the CEO of the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer told Reuters on Monday.
Terry Gou, Foxconn's founder...
DALIAN, China (Reuters) - Exiled billionaire businessman Guo Wengui instructed his employees to fraudulently obtain hundreds of millions of dollars in loans, senior employees of his real estate company told a court in China's northeastern Liaoning province.
By Philip Wen
Appearing...
In 2016, China became the second largest investing country according to the annual report on investment issued on Wednesday by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
According to the World Investment Report 2017, foreign direct investment outflows from...
HORGOS, China/KHORGOS, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - On the border of China and Kazakhstan, an international free trade zone has become a showpiece of Chinese President Xi Jinping's signature "Belt and Road" Initiative to boost global trade and commerce by improving...
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese activists say they fear intensified state surveillance after a draft law seeking to legitimise monitoring of suspects and raid premises was announced last week, the latest step to strengthen Beijing's security apparatus.
By Christian Shepherd
Half a...
TAIPEI/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Taiwan's president on Sunday offered to help China to transition to democracy, on the 28th anniversary of China's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square, as thousands gathered in Hong Kong...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will maintain a monetary policy that is "neither too tight or too loose", ensuring basically stable liquidity, a senior central banker told a financial conference in Beijing on Saturday.
China monetary policy 2017
Chen Yulu, deputy governor...
