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China celebrates 70 years as Hong Kong seethes
Some 15,000 troops along with tanks, missiles and high-tech drones paraded down the Avenue of Eternal Peace as Xi and other Communist Party leaders watched from a rostrum overlooking Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
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Oil prices fall as trade war concerns hit demand outlook
US President Donald Trump last week said he would impose a 10% tariff on $300 billion of Chinese imports starting on 1 September.
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Trade negotiators hold talks ahead of Xi-Trump meeting
Vice Premier Liu He - Xi Jinping's point man in the trade war - spoke with US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Monday.
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Xi meets North Korea's Kim ahead of Trump talks
Chinese President Xi Jinping is the first Chinese president to visit North Korea in 14 years after relations between the Cold War era allies deteriorated.
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'Good gifts': Putin presents Xi with birthday ice cream
Russian President Vladimir Putin presented his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping with a giant box of ice cream for his 66th birthday before a summit in Tajikistan on Saturday, the Kremlin said.
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Trump-Xi meeting at G20 raises hope for trade truce
Global shares were buoyed by the announcement, with Wall Street rallying on Tuesday and Asian stock markets surging on Wednesday.
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Xi says 'no clash' of civilisations amid US trade war
His remarks came after a top-level US official last month described the rivalry between China and the US as "a fight with a really different civilisation and a different ideology".
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Trump to meet Chinese trade negotiator amid effort to defuse conflict
President Trump has signalled he could extend the 1 March deadline to more than double tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods.
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China-US trade talks ‘making a final sprint’ - report
Chinese state media on Saturday expressed cautious optimism over trade talks between the United States and China.
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Soros calls China's Xi 'most dangerous' foe of free societies
The billionaire investor said China was the wealthiest, strongest and technologically most advanced regime in the world.
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North Korea's Kim ends Beijing visit as Trump summit looms
Kim arrived in Beijing on Tuesday for his fourth visit to Pyongyang's sole major diplomatic friend, reportedly visiting a factory and meeting President Xi Jinping.
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Trump says China to cut car tariffs in trade truce
Us President Donald Trump's surprise announcement late Sunday came a day after he and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to suspend any new tariffs and give negotiators 90 days to strike a deal.
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Trump-Xi meet, a turning point in global trade war?
The state-run 'China Daily' newspaper said any deal was unlikely to be a comprehensive solution to the impasse due to 'diverging demands and agendas'.
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BRICS slam protectionism as China-US spat overshadows G20 talks
This year’s two-day gathering is a major test for the Group of 20 industrialized nations, whose leaders first met in 2008 to help rescue the global economy from the worst financial crisis in seven decades.
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Japan's Abe makes rare China visit as relations thaw
Japanese business is eager for increased access to China's massive market, while Beijing is interested in Japanese technology and corporate know-how.
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China’s Xi opens world’s longest sea bridge linking Hong Kong, Macau
The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge is made up of nearly 35km of bridge and road sections, and a 6.7km tunnel between artificial islands to allow shipping to pass unhindered.
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Morning Brief: SA's free lunch?; Mabuza: Probe Denel blast; LeBron meets Caster
EWN brings you the news you may have missed overnight and what you need to know about the day ahead.
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[CARTOON] Cyril Delivers, But On What Terms?
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China to invest over $60bn in Africa over 3 years
Chinese President Xi Jinping says the least developed countries with diplomatic relations with his govt and heavily indebted from loans offered by his country don’t have to worry about paying back the money.
