Merchants purchase goods at China Yiwu International Trade City, in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, on Feb. 9, 2025. Editor at Large Christmas comes early to Yiwu, a bustling entrepôt just a couple hours by train from China’s coastal megacity of Shanghai.

When armed rebels seized northern Myanmar's rare-earths mining belt in October, they dealt a blow to the country's embattled military junta - and wrested control of a key global resource.

U.S. expands trade blacklist with 80 new entities to prevent China's advancements in AI, exascale supercomputing, quantum technology, and hypersonic weapons.

Reassurance was the theme at the China Development Forum in a sign that Beijing seeks to offset trade pressures rather than retaliate forcefully.

China's Premier Li Qiang said with rising "instability and uncertainty," it was important for countries to open their markets more.

China’s government appears in no rush to implement its budget, as Beijing preserves spending power to counter any damage inflicted by higher US tariffs.

Speaking at the meeting, Lee Maiyani Kinyanjui, Kenya's cabinet secretary for investments, trade and industry, said Kenya greatly values China's growing business interests in the country and encourages more Chinese enterprises to set up local manufacturing operations.

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South Korea aims to achieve a 20% recycling rate for strategic critical minerals by 2030, as intensifying trade tensions between the US and China expose the country to supply uncertainties.