Covid-19 and rising political tensions blamed for 10-year low in Chinese investments in EU countries and BritainFears Chinese investors would use pandemic to snap up distressed assets prove unfounded, as total global spend drops
Joe Biden’s new executive order directed the US Commerce Department to assess, in the following six months, any apps associated with foreign adversariesThe department will provide recommendations of actions needed to address the risks found at the end of the assessment
Seoul ‘should grasp right and wrong, adhere to the correct position’, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi advises counterpart Chung Eui-yongUS strategy is provoking confrontations, Wang says, days before G7 summit to which South Korea has been invited
New caps on sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and respirable suspended particles to come into forceCity to phase out reliance on coal in favour of cleaner natural gas
US trade representative Katherine Tai and her Taiwanese counterpart John Deng discussed plans to resume talks on the trade and investment agreementThe process stalled under Donald Trump and the Biden White House has not said whether it wants a trade deal – but the talks risk Beijing’s anger