Bloomberg As China braces for the full impact of President Donald Trump’s trade war, it’s seeking to learn from Japan’s economic battles with the US during the Reagan years. Chinese officials, business people and academics have been pressing Japanese counterparts to share experiences from the 1980s, when Tokyo found itself in Washington’s crosshairs as its huge trade surplus and increasing ...

Bloomberg The cloud-computing arm of Chinese retail giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. opened its first data centers in the UK, with two sites operational in London. The expansion is “driven by the rapidly growing customer demand,” a spokesman for the company told Bloomberg. “The United Kingdom is one of the fastest-growing European markets for Alibaba Cloud.” Cloud-computing companies have been ...

Bloomberg Singapore plans to spur investment in much-needed infrastructure in Southeast Asia by helping to structure projects to make them more “bankable,” a senior official said. A new government agency called Infrastructure Asia will help connect the “supply and demand” for these projects, Indranee Rajah, Singapore’s second minister for finance, said. The Asian Development Bank estimates developing economies in Asia ...