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U S CHINA

Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
May 19, 2019
Royalty feud threatens to tear apart FamilyMart's profitable joint venture in China
FamilyMart, the most successful Japanese convenience store chain in China, is embroiled in a royalty payments fight between its Japanese and Chinese joint-venture partners that could change how much money each side makes or scuttle the partnership entirely.
BUSINESS / Economy
May 18, 2019
China newspaper says U.S.'s forced tech-transfer claims 'fabricated'
The United States has "fabricated" accusations that China forces firms to hand over technology in exchange for market access, China's top Communist Party newspaper said on Saturday, the latest salvo in a bitter trade war.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
May 18, 2019
U.S. says it may scale back some Huawei trade restrictions
The U.S. Commerce Department said on Friday it may soon scale back restrictions on Huawei Technologies after this week's blacklisting would have made it nearly impossible for the Chinese company to service its existing customers.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
May 18, 2019
On Huawei and autos, Trump aligns trade with U.S. security
U.S. President Donald Trump is taking his trade wars into a new realm likely to both extend them and make them harder to resolve.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 18, 2019
Chinese court sentences Japanese man accused of stealing state secrets to 5½ years in prison
A Chinese court has sentenced a Japanese man who was detained some two years ago on charges of spying to 5½ years in prison, sources have said.
EDITORIALS
May 17, 2019
U.S. lowers the boom on Huawei
The U.S.-China showdown is just beginning and it promises to be a rough ride.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 17, 2019
Japan to ask municipalities to dispose of industrial plastic waste as trash piles up due to China ban
Municipalities that accept the request will pass on the costs for incineration to companies generating industrial plastic.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 17, 2019
Huawei ban seen clouding U.S.-China trade talks and tech sector
A U.S. bid to block China's Huawei Technologies from buying vital American technology threw into question prospects for sales at some of the largest tech companies and drew a sharp rebuke from Beijing, further ratcheting up tensions over trade.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 16, 2019
Chinese tourists to Japan switch from shopping sprees to medical services
A few years ago, Chinese tourists engaged in bakugai (explosive shopping spree) in Tokyo's Ginza district made headlines.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 16, 2019
Forecast of a cooler summer in Asia may add to expected LNG glut
Don't count on a summer heat wave to rescue Asia's liquefied natural gas prices. Weather forecasts signal lackluster demand in the largest importing region, raising prospects a global glut will deepen.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
May 15, 2019
China vows 'people's war' as trade fight with U.S. takes nationalist turn
Among China's most surprising responses to the trade war has been its reluctance to use its vast state media empire to rally the home front. That's changed since U.S. President Donald Trump's latest tariff barrage.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
May 15, 2019
Upbeat comments from Trump, China halt global stock skid
World stocks held near two-month lows on Tuesday as slightly more optimistic comments from U.S. and Chinese officials on trade brought some comfort, a day after equities suffered their worst selloff so far this year.
JAPAN
May 14, 2019
Decoding of Jomon woman's genome suggests common ancestor unites Japanese and Han Chinese
A research team led by the National Museum of Nature and Science said Monday it has sequenced and analyzed with high accuracy the whole genome of a woman who lived about 3,500 to 3,800 years ago, in the second half of Japan's Jomon Period, for the first time.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 14, 2019
Inside the close naval encounters in the South China Sea
The voice on the radio in the middle of the South China Sea follows a familiar script for Capt. Eric Anduze, who helms the USS Blue Ridge. It's China on the phone.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 14, 2019
Nissan considers buying stake in Chinese electric carmaker
Nissan Motor Co. is looking to invest in a Chinese electric car startup to provide it with a greater footprint in the world's biggest market for new-energy vehicles, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 14, 2019
Trump losing his fight to ban Huawei equipment from global mobile networks
U.S. President Donald Trump's worldwide campaign to blackball Huawei Technologies Co. is looking like a failure.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 14, 2019
Trump says U.S. farmers will get $15 billion in aid amid China trade war
President Donald Trump said on Monday that his administration was planning to provide about $15 billion in aid to help U.S. farmers whose products may be targeted with tariffs by China amid a deepening trade war.
EDITORIALS
May 13, 2019
The U.S. and China play a dangerous game
The U.S. commitment to unilateral acts of protectionism and China's determination to build a world-class economy by tilting the domestic business landscape bodes ill for a solution anytime soon.

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