What to Know About the Summit Between Putin and Xi in China
When China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, hosts President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia this week, the two leaders are expected to present a united front. But they have different agendas.
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Eisai to offer Alzheimer's drug in China from July
TOKYO-- Eisai will launch its treatment for Alzheimer's disease in China this July with a major health care provider there under plans announced Wednesday, entering the third market after Japan and the U.S.
Singapore's Sea posts record revenue in Q1 on e-commerce growth
SINGAPORE -- Singapore-based Sea on Tuesday posted record quarterly revenue for the first three months of the year on stronger e-commerce transactions, suggesting the tech group is handling tough competition with new entrants like China's ByteDance-owned TikTok.
Japan Inc. projects 4% profit fall on China and Europe slowdown
TOKYO -- Combined net profit at big Japanese companies is forecast to fall 4% this fiscal year, the first drop in five years, corporate earnings outlooks show, due in part to a slowdown in China and Europe and conservative yen exchange-rate assumptions.
Honda scales down production workforce in China as sales slump
GUANGZHOU -- Honda Motor is scaling down its full-time production workforce in China as sales slump, with about 1,700 workers having agreed to leave so far, Nikkei has learned.
China is burning all its bridges with Israel
Derek Grossman is a senior defense analyst at the think tank RAND Corp. in Santa Monica, California, and an adjunct professor in the practice of political science and international relations at the University of Southern California. He formerly served as an intelligence adviser at the Pentagon.
Baidu launches robotaxi that costs less than half of earlier model
WUHAN, China -- Baidu on Wednesday debuted its sixth-generation robotaxi, which costs the Chinese technology company less than 50% of the previous version.
Europe must avoid ‘disaster’ of trade decoupling as it eyes China tariffs, EU's economics chief says
The European Union must avoid a harmful decoupling of global trade as it mulls tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and other goods, the bloc's economic chief said Wednesday.