'Chexican' Narco-Financier Ran New York Fentanyl Cell With Mexican Operatives, US Indictment Shows

Submitted by The Bureau's Sam Cooper, Newly unsealed U.S. government filings reveal that Zhi Dong Zhang — an alleged global fentanyl kingpin with reported ties to Chinese diplomats in Canada, accused of supplying precursor chemicals and laundering...

Trump heads to Asia with high-stakes meeting with China's Xi on the agenda

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is set to depart Washington on Friday night for Asia with trade and U.S. relations with China top of mind. The nearly weeklong trip will include stops in three countries, touch two separate summits and include...

Could U.S. Sanctions Finally Cripple Russia’s War Economy?

The war economy that has fueled Russia’s all-out assault on Ukraine for 45 months has been funded by Moscow’s exports of oil and gas and, critics say, the West's unwillingness -- as well as China and India's disinterest -- to fully turn off the...

Trump Weekly: Trump closes deals with Australia, calls off Canada trade talks

Catch up on the top industries and stocks that were impacted, or were predicted to be impacted, by the comments, actions and policies of President Trump with this weekly recap compiled by The Fly: Elevate Your Investing Strategy: Take advantage of...

EU sanctions hit Russian energy majors, Chinese buyers

The EU has sanctioned China’s state-backed trading arm and two major refineries as part of a broad 19th Russian sanctions package, which mounts pressure on the Kremlin’s foreign trade partners and bans transactions with energy majors Rosneft and...

Tanker Trade in Turbulence: Beijing Strikes Back with Port Fee Policy

As of October 14, 2025, the U.S. and China have implemented reciprocal port fees targeting vessels associated with the opposing nation. These fees are levied on a per-net-ton basis, determined by a vessel’s identity, specifically its ownership,...

Escalate to negotiate: New mantra guiding global powers to address trade issues

Europe’s response to China’s rare earth restrictions reflects a new global trade doctrine, using escalation as leverage for negotiation. Read here In an increasingly fractured global trading system, escalation has become the new language of...

Bigger Can Be Better: How the US Can Use M&A To Keep the Edge Against China

Xi Jinping (Lintao Zhang/Getty Images) As experts warn that the United States is at risk of losing a technological arms race to China, others say axing Biden-era restrictions on corporate mergers and acquisitions will help the country remain...

Yiwugo Celebrates Its 13th Anniversary Alongside the Grand Opening of Yiwu’s Gen-6 Market

—What New Opportunities Wait for Cross-Border and Domestic Trade? YIWU, China, Oct. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Yiwugo.com, the official website of the Yiwu Commodity Market, is the largest commodity wholesale market in the world. On October 14, 2025,...

Tariffs Force Ed-Tech Companies to Innovate, Diversify, Raise Prices

The U.S. education technology sector is facing pressure as tariff policies impact global supply chains, procurement budgets and company operations. Since the Trump administration’s wave of reciprocal tariffs in 2025, imported technology, from...

Chinese State Media Coverage of CCP’s Fourth Plenum Muted Amid Military Purge

Police officers patrol outside the Jingxi Hotel, where Chinese officials are conducting the Third Plenum, a key economic meeting, in Beijing on July 15, 2024. Greg Baker/ AFP via Getty Images News Analysis The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s)...

TSX Keeps on Climbing After Trump Says He’ll End Trade Talks

The TSX Composite Index continued to climb 0.59% on Friday, growing 1.6% since Tuesday. TSX kept climbing even after U.S. president Donald Trump took to social media, writing in all caps, “ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED.”...

BYD, SGMW post over 140% YoY growth丨China’s passenger vehicle exporters overview (Jan.-Aug. 2025)

From January to August 2025, China's passenger vehicle exports showed regional divergence, brand-led growth, and widening performance gaps. BYD remained dominant across Europe, Southeast Asia, North America, and Oceania, taking the lead with...

Europe: Shares close at record high on US data, trade hopes

[BENGALURU] European shares closed at a record high on Friday (Oct 24), boosted by cooler than expected US inflation data and hopes of an easing in US-Chinese trade tensions, as investors assessed a slew of corporate earnings. The continent-wide...

Trump to jet off to Asia as North Korea fires ballistic missiles and China trade questions loom

President Donald Trump joins ‘Sunday Morning Futures’ to discuss China’s restrictions on rare-earth mineral exports, the legality of his tariff policies and his outlook for the U.S. economy. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President...

Michael Kovrig warns of China’s ‘diplomatic wrapping paper’ as Carney pursues deeper ties

As Prime Minister Mark Carney aims to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping amid a U.S. trade war, a former diplomat who spent more than a thousand days imprisoned in China is warning Ottawa to remember the threat China poses to Canada. “We need...

Asean set to sign digital economy agreement in 2026 to boost cross-border trade, services

KUALA LUMPUR – Asean is on course to sign a digital economy pact in 2026, which aims to boost cross-border digital trade and services. Talks on the Asean Digital Economy Framework Agreement (Defa) reached a “substantial conclusion” at the 26th...

How to beat Trump tariffs? IMF urges Asia to integrate regional trade

Global financial body, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), on Friday, 24 October 2025, urged the Asian nations to integrate regional trade and also lower the non-tariff barriers among the countries to reduce the vulnerability to US tariffs and...

What do two financial advisors with no kids spend on groceries?

Ed McKnight, 33, is an economist, finance podcaster and YouTuber. He lives in Orākei, Auckland with his wife Angela, 29, a financial advisor specialising in investments. They shop at New World Eastridge. Ed talked to Polly Wenlock . I get that our...

Sheikh Khaled to attend key economic summit in South Korea

Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, is to represent the UAE at a key economic summit next week. He will lead an Emirati delegation, on behalf of President Sheikh Mohamed, at the two-day Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (Apec)...