Bessent: The US-China relationship has reached a stable but competitive point

China will offer firm support for "patriotic pro-reunification forces" in Taiwan and strike hard against "separatists", the top Chinese official in charge of policy towards the democratically-governed island said in comments published on Tuesday (Feb 10). China, which views Taiwan as its own territory despite the objections of the government in Taipei, has ...

China's consumer inflation cooled in January while producer price deflation persisted, highlighting once again the underlying weakness in domestic demand and a key challenge for policymakers looking to shore up an uneven economic recovery. Beijing has repeatedly pledged to better align supply and demand and promised to raise people's incomes to spur goods ...

China’s consumer inflation rose less than expected in January while the deflation in producer prices persisted, in a sign of continued deflationary pressure in the absence of stronger stimulus. The consumer price index rose 0.2% in January from a year earlier, China’s National Bureau of Statistics data showed on Wednesday, below economists’ forecast of 0.4% ...