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A drone view shows electric vehicles (EV) for export and containers sitting at a port in Shanghai, China April 13, 2025. Photo: China Daily via REUTERS

China surpasses $1 trillion trade surplus despite low exports to US

Despite high US tariffs, which have weighed heavily on shipments to the United States, China’s exporters continued to strengthen ties with other markets

French President Emmanuel Macron, his wife Brigitte Macron, Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan visit the Dujiangyan site, designated a Unesco World Heritage Site, in Dujiangyan, Sichuan province, on 5 December 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier/Pool

Xi woos Macron with sightseeing trip, but little in the way of deals

A woman holds a five-hundred-rupee currency note in the old quarters of Delhi, India, September 25, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Bhawika Chhabra/File Photo

Rupee cracks below 90 to the dollar, hit by tariffs, capital outflows

Magnifier screens show chips at a booth in a mall of Huaqiangbei electronics market in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China October 30, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Tingshu Wang/File Photo

The AI frenzy is driving a memory chip supply crisis

Illustration: REUTERS/Illustration/Catherine Tai

China floods the world with gasoline cars it can't sell at home

A representation of the virtual cryptocurrency Bitcoin is seen in this picture illustration taken on 18 October 2021. REUTERS/Edgar Su/File Photo

'Why is Bitcoin, crypto down?': Panic after sudden crash to below $88k

A staff member shows a one-kilogram gold bar at the Galeri 24 gold and jewellery shop in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 9, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana/File Photo

Gold climbs to six-week high on risk-off sentiment in equities

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi shakes hands with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney as they hold a bilateral meeting during the G7 Leader's Summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada June 17, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Amber Bracken

Canada, India agree to restart trade talks: Indian government

European Union flags fly outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium September 19, 2019/ Reuters

EU to urge US to apply more of the July trade deal, including cutting steel tariffs

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Czech Republic announces $19b nuclear expansion to double production

An employee measures a newly manufactured ball mill machine at a factory in Nantong, Jiangsu province, China June 28, 2019. Photo: REUTERS/Stringer

Asia's factories stumble as US trade deals fail to revive demand

A sample of yttrium (Y) is displayed at the Laboratory of Physics and Material studies (LPEM) in Paris, France, June 23, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

A new rare earth crisis is brewing as yttrium shortages spread

Dark clouds stretch across a refinery near Houston, Texas September 12, 2008. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo

World oil and gas demand could grow until 2050: IEA