Gaming group NetEase will sell up to $3bn of shares in a Hong Kong secondary offering, in what could mark the start of a wave of Chinese companies raising capital in the city as tensions between Beijing and Washington simmer. NetEase, one of China’s biggest makers of online video games, […]

A UK government review into the impact of new US sanctions on Huawei will report back within weeks, officials have said, as they warned the curbs could have “very, very serious” implications for the Chinese company’s planned role in supplying 5G networks in Britain. The emergency review — which started […]

Chinese technology groups such as ByteDance and Alibaba are boosting their presence in Singapore as they vie with US rivals for dominance in south-east Asia. Artificial intelligence start-up SenseTime, online travel platform Ctrip, social network site YY and telecoms provider China Telecom are also among those that have either increased […]

At last month’s National People’s Congress, China unveiled a much-anticipated fiscal stimulus package to counter the damage caused by the Covid-19 crisis to the world’s second-biggest economy. The virus-fighting spend, which amounts to an extra Rmb3.6tn ($500bn), or around 4 per cent of China’s annual economic output, will be paid […]

Hong Kong has condemned Donald Trump’s threat to revoke the territory’s special trade privileges after Beijing moved to impose anti-subversion laws on the Asian financial hub.  The US president unveiled a series of measures on Friday targeting Beijing and Hong Kong, which included plans to sanction government officials and to […]

Donald Trump has said the US would revoke special trade privileges for Hong Kong and sanction officials from the territory and mainland China after Beijing moved to impose new security laws on the former British colony. The US president on Friday unveiled a sweeping range of actions to target China […]

Donald Trump says the US will revoke special trade privileges for Hong Kong and sanction officials from the territory and mainland China after Beijing moved to impose new security laws on the former British colony. The US president on Friday unveiled a sweeping range of actions to target China that […]

For many Australians like me who grew up in the 1990s, the UK and its culture loomed large. We knew all the Spice Girls songs and spent hours sorting ourselves into Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin. When we weren’t reading the Harry Potter books, we watched Jane Austen mini-series and […]

Wall Street turned higher late in Friday’s session after Donald Trump’s latest salvo aimed at China did not deliver the harsh sanctions traders had feared. The S&P 500 closed up 0.5 per cent and the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended little changed, recovering from a fall of more than 1 […]

The UK has set itself on a collision course with China after broadening its offer on extended visa rights from 350,000 to almost 3m Hong Kong residents. After Beijing announced plans this week to proceed with the imposition of a national security law on Hong Kong, UK foreign secretary Dominic […]