With its plans to levy 25% tariffs on $50 billion of US products including soybeans, cars and aircraft, China looks to have stepped the simmering Trans-Pacific economic battle up a gear. The initial parries between Washington and Beijing resulted in little more than flesh wounds. There were a series of levies on steel and aluminum exports to the US, which ...

As Donald Trump works to kick Japan’s automakers out of their largest market, they may want to set their sights on an even bigger prize — China. Authorities in the US are considering making imported cars meet stricter environmental requirements, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing administration and industry officials it didn’t identify. This sort of a non-tariff barrier would ...

How the mood changes. Malaysia is now seen as the best growth story among emerging Southeast Asian markets. Year-to-date, foreign investors bought a net $635 million of the country’s shares, while pulling money out of Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines. The FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI Index has outperformed its peers with an 8 percent rally this year in dollar terms. ...