Bloomberg Chinese Vice Premier Liu He unexpectedly attended the first day of talks aimed at resolving the trade dispute between the world’s two biggest economies, according to people familiar with the matter and a photo seen by Bloomberg. Liu is the top economic adviser to Chinese President Xi Jinping, who led previous negotiations in Washington that produced a deal that ...

Bloomberg Taiwan arrested six current and former BASF SE engineers accused of accepting bribes and sharing the German company’s technology with Jiangyin Jianghua Microelectronics Materials Co., in one of the more elaborate cases involving alleged Chinese intellectual property theft. Jianghua offered them $5.8 million in return for help building a new factory in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu, Criminal ...

Bloomberg These are tough times for the global health-care world, and only financially fit companies supported by strong research and development will survive, according to Takeda Pharmaceutical’s Christophe Weber. That goes a long way to explaining the Japanese drugmaker’s $62 billion deal to acquire Shire Plc, the chief executive said at a briefing, as the company prepares to close the ...