Trade war

Europe is edging closer to a trade war with China. Here’s why.

EU officials weigh more powerful trade and industrial measures to curb Beijing’s growing dominance in sensitive fields

On May 2, Beijing ordered its companies not to comply with US sanctions on five Chinese refineries accused of buying Iranian oil, including Hengli Petrochemicals (above).

China uses for the first time new rules to counter ‘improper’ foreign jurisdiction over its firms

In the years since, Beijing has further bolstered its toolkit with measures such as an anti-foreign sanctions law

US President Donald Trump with Chinese President Xi Jinping after a visit to the Zhongnanhai Garden in Beijing on May 15.

US, China to set up trade and investment boards to address mutual concerns, says Beijing

THE US and China agreed to establish boards on trade and investment at the May 14-15 Trump-Xi summit, though US President Donald Trump said he did not discuss a possible extension of his tariff truce ...

Instead of building a coalition to manage China’s rise, Trump (right) is busying himself with wrecking the very idea of Western partnership.

Why Trump is China’s most valuable asset

With global attention on the US-China summit, is it really the ‘prisoner’s dilemma’ keeping the West from a coordinated strategy?

Around 6,600 US companies operate in Singapore, with Singapore-based investments supporting more than 250,000 American jobs, SBF notes.

SBF pushes back on US trade probes, warns tariffs would hurt American firms

Singapore’s acts, policies and practices do not ‘burden or restrict’ commerce of the United States, it adds

MTI says that the bilateral trade relationship between the US and Singapore already favours the Americans.

Singapore tells US it has no forced labour in supply chains, pushes back on overcapacity claims

Any trade surplus the city-state runs with other nations is a ‘market-driven’ outcome, says MTI

For paper batteries, production does not depend on the supply chains for the scarce resources used to make conventional batteries.

This Singapore deep-tech startup believes its paper batteries are an important part of the global clean energy transition

Flint wants to get its cellulose-based batteries into every device that requires them, says co-founder

US President Donald Trump's response to the Supreme Court ruling was characteristically defiant, ordering a new 10% global tariff, that was quickly raised to 15%.

The court says no: the Supreme Court’s rebuke of Trump’s tariff gambit

The ruling is a victory for the rule of law, but it is not the end of the trade war

Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury says there have been an "unprecedented number of crises" and "unsettling geopolitical developments" in the start of 2026.

Airbus CEO warns of new risks after ‘significant’ trade damage

‘The industrial landscape in which we operate is sown with difficulties,’ says Guillaume Faury

The question facing policymakers who come after Trump is not whether to abandon trade policy as a strategic tool, but whether they can develop a more sophisticated approach.

Trump’s trade war and the persistence of magical thinking

The tariffs have been effective at one thing: generating political theatre while imposing costs on American households and businesses