Li Keqiang

Europe 04/12/19, 04:40

China's prime minister has promised that Beijing will respect European standards and fair trade, seeking to allay concerns that it's flouting EU competition rules with huge investments on the continent.Opening an annual summit of Eastern and Central European nations and China, Li Keqiang said "we intend to fully respect European ...

Asia & Pacific 04/11/19, 09:59

Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang has visited a construction site in Croatia where a major European Union-funded bridge is being built by a Chinese state-owned company.The China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) won in 2018 an international bid to construct the 2.4 kilometer-long bridge over the Adriatic Sea.The 420 million-euro ...

Asia & Pacific 03/31/19, 23:49

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has urged New Zealand to provide a "fair, transparent, convenient" investment environment in a meeting with the country's prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, that comes amid a dispute over use of Chinese telecoms equipment.Relations between the two countries have been strained since New Zealand's spy agency in ...

World 03/15/19, 07:00

Premier Li Keqiang says China has never and will never ask Chinese companies to spy on other countries

Business 03/15/19, 01:19

Shares rose Friday in Asia after a day of lackluster trading on Wall Street. Japan's Nikkei 225 index jumped 1 percent to 21,506.92 as the Bank of Japan ended a policy meeting by keeping its key interest rate at minus 0.1 percent, maintaining its stance of extreme monetary easing and lavish ...

Business 03/14/19, 23:04

China's premier has said Beijing "will not do that" when asked whether Chinese companies are told to spy on foreign countries.Premier Li Keqiang, speaking at a news conference, said Friday that such tactics were "not how China behaves."The United States and some other governments have imposed curbs on use of ...

Business 03/14/19, 22:02

China's top economic official says the country needs "strong measures" to counteract downward pressure on growth but Beijing plans to promote market-oriented reforms instead of relying on more lending and deficit government spending.Premier Li Keqiang, speaking in a nationally televised news conference, said Friday the communist government will cut taxes ...

World 03/12/19, 07:57

Has China's plan for technological dominance rode quietly into the sunset?

Asia & Pacific 03/08/19, 04:51

China opened the annual session of its legislature this week in Beijing. The nearly 6,000 delegates to the National People's Congress and its advisory body include hundreds of military officers, representatives of ethnic groups and Chinese celebrities like former NBA player Yao Ming. The Chinese legislature has a rubber-stamp function ...

Business 03/08/19, 02:31

China's exports to the United States plunged in January and February as President Donald Trump's punitive tariffs chilled demand, while sales to the rest of the world also weakened. Exports to the United States, China's biggest trading partner, fell 14.1 percent from a year earlier to $52.3 billion in the first ...

Business 03/05/19, 22:54

China will bar government authorities from demanding overseas companies hand over technology secrets in exchange for market share, a top economic official said Wednesday, addressing a key complaint at the heart of the current China-U.S. trade dispute.The provision is contained in a foreign investment law to be debated at the ...

World 03/05/19, 11:32

China’s Premier Li Keqiang has warned that the world’s second largest economy has a tough struggle ahead this year as Beijing grapples with slowing growth and an ongoing trade dispute with the United

Business 03/05/19, 08:45

In speech to opening day of annual legislative session, Premier Li Keqiang announces measures to boost China's slowing economy

World 03/04/19, 20:39

The Latest on the annual meeting of China's Congress (all times local):9:30 a.m.China's top economic official is promising all companies are to be 'treated as equals' in a bid to defuse U.S. and European trade complaints.A Chinese military band conductor rehearses before the opening session of the annual National People's ...

World 02/28/19, 22:24

Thousands of delegates from around China are gathering in Beijing for next week's annual session of the country's rubber-stamp legislature and its advisory body. The event is more a chance for the authoritarian ruling Communist Party leadership to directly communicate its message than for actual debate or passage of laws.The ...

Asia & Pacific 11/13/18, 22:19

Southeast Asian leaders and China are touting progress in keeping peace in the contentious South China Sea as they work toward a "code of conduct" to govern navigation routes and other activities in the region. Speaking at the annual summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Singapore, Chinese Premier ...

Business 11/13/18, 00:26

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang says the country needs reforms to support business to help drive growth as it weathers a trade war with the U.S., rather than more economic stimulus. Li said Tuesday in Singapore that China can energize its slowing economy by adjusting policies, such as streamlining bureaucratic procedures like ...

Business 11/03/18, 02:49

Close ally China says it is willing to offer assistance to Pakistan to help it weather its current fiscal crisis but that terms of such aid are still being discussed.Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, center left, and China's Premier Li Keqiang, center right, attend a signing ceremony at the Great ...

World 11/01/18, 07:03

China and America are "competitors but not adversaries," U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander told Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Thursday, despite a spiraling trade war and other tensions that have pushed relations to their lowest point in years. The upbeat message at their meeting in Beijing came amid concerns that the U.S.-China ...

Asia & Pacific 10/26/18, 01:07

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has held a second meeting with his Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang during the first formal visit to Beijing by a Japanese leader in nearly seven years.Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, is shown the way by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang as he arrives to a welcome ...