World’s biggest sports brand is tailoring its ranges for local tastes to get back on top in a market it pioneered

BEIJING, Sept 30 (Reuters) - China has vowed a "resolute response" to safeguard its industries if the European Union goes ahead with restrictions against Chinese companies or products, according to its commerce ministry.

A Trump administration initiative to create a China-free supply chain for military and industrial inputs is starting to work.

China has cut a central bank lending rate and unveiled nationwide subsidies for mortgage interest payments in policymakers’ latest attempts to counter slowing momentum in the world’s second-largest economy.

China has introduced new measures to help boost its economy and sluggish property sector. The government aims to hit its year-end economic growth target.

Once one of its best markets, the country is now a major cause of the sportswear giant’s sinking fortunes.

The summit this month between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington, D.C. marked “a welcome sense of spring” in ties between the two countries, China’s top diplomat in New York said at a reception yesterday ahead of the country’s Oct. 1 National Day.

President Donald Trump said Monday that he did not discuss the US selling weapons to China during his recent meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, contradicting an assertion made by the US ambassador to China a day earlier.

President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the U.S. ambassador to China. Trump is withholding a $14 billion arms package to Taiwan.

President Donald Trump has justified the pending U.S. arms sale to Taiwan to Chinese President Xi Jinping by downplaying it as just one of many sales Washington makes around the world — even asking Xi if he’d be in the market for U.

Republican senators urged Trump to press China to halt illegal vape exports, while Alabama moves to ban vaping in public spaces starting Oct. 1.