Trade

Spain’s economic endorsement of China is a major Trump rebuke

Could warmer ties between Madrid and Beijing help move EU closer to China?

China’s new supply chain rules come a year after it imposed strict export controls on rare earth metals and rare earth magnets, which are essential to a wide range of industries.

China imposes new rules to block foreign companies from ‘decoupling’

The country’s manufacturing dominance spans nearly every industry

As China has moved up the value-added curve in exports of EVs, robots, drones, solar panels and wind turbines, expansion in knowledge-intensive service exports has followed.

China’s new trade front with the world – services

The country is rapidly moving up the global ranks as an exporter of knowledge-intensive products

French President Emmanuel Macron (above) may be able to navigate a way through the disagreements, given his previous ability to befriend US President Donald Trump at key moments.

G7 gears up for growing role in Iran crisis

But potential divisions over various issues may pose the gravest test to allied unity in 50 years

 When Prime Minister Lawrence Wong met his Japanese counterpart, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in March, Japan and Singapore upgraded their relationship to a strategic partnership anchored in a framework to deepen and expand cooperation.

Singapore and Japan’s role in a changing Indo-Pacific

Renewed cooperation between both countries would remind others that respect for international law need not be defended through confrontation alone

Polls show a big shrinkage of working-class support for Trump, particularly among non-white voters.

Trump is not just sinking in the Gulf

As his poll numbers tank, the president’s trade and immigration agendas are encountering judicial resistance too

Members of the FIT Partnership will "enhance cooperation and coordination to identify and mitigate ongoing or imminent major supply-chain risks or disruptions".

Singapore to work with other trade-dependent economies on keeping supply chains ‘open and resilient’

Members of the Future of Investment and Trade Partnership will share information on disruptions, alternatives

Prime Minister Lawrence Wong with Hainan Communist Party secretary Feng Fei on Mar 26. Both agreed that Singapore and Hainan have much to gain from cooperation.

Singapore supports Hainan’s development as free trade port: PM Wong

Under this arrangement, most international goods can enter Hainan province tariff-free

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen (left) with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Canberra on Mar 24.

Australia deal shows EU is ‘open for business’

Affecting sectors from agriculture to critical minerals, the trade agreement marks a big win for both sides