Beijing is fighting to limit the damage from a pattern of price wars and excess capacity across multiple industries.

China's commerce minister has accepted an "urgent" invitation to Brussels, the EU's trade chief Maros Sefcovic said on Tuesday, as the bloc looks to unpick Beijing's restrictions on rare earth mineral exports and defuse a row over Dutch-based chipmaker Nexperia.

China has reported that its economy expanded at the slowest annual pace in a year in July- September, growing 4.8%, weighed down by trade tensions with the United States and slack domestic demand

Beijing used bare-knuckle tactics in a multidecade effort to consolidate control over supplies.

SIX MONTHS ago, as President Donald Trump announced a trade war of unprecedented aggression, businesses and investors braced for a slump. Movements in financial markets pointed to a deep recession. American consumers’ confidence nosedived.

"We are very concerned because of the potential impact" of the growing US-China trade spat, Carlos Cuerpo said at Semafor’s World Economy Summit.

China's economic growth slowed to the weakest pace in a year in the third quarter as fragile domestic demand left it heavily reliant on the humming of its exporting factories, stoking concerns about deepening structural imbalances.

In the Marshall Islands, where the land averages only 7 feet above sea level, people are acutely aware of climate change. If the world fails to rein in the greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change,

California gained the No. 5 global ranking in 2017 and then rose to No. 4 last year following a long-running dip in the Japanese economy. This scorecard reflects both geographic economic progress and fluctuations in the U.S. currency. Japan’s jump is due, in part, to its strong yen performance against the dollar in 2025.