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  • ✇ecns - China News Service
  • U.S. business leaders express confidence in Chinese market
    A high-profile business delegation comprising top U.S. executives from sectors including technology, finance, aviation and agriculture arrived in Beijing on Wednesday as part of U.S. President Donald Trump's entourage. The delegation's presence signals that commercial ties binding the two economies remain too deep to sever, economists and business executives said.
     

U.S. business leaders express confidence in Chinese market

14 May 2026 at 08:59
A high-profile business delegation comprising top U.S. executives from sectors including technology, finance, aviation and agriculture arrived in Beijing on Wednesday as part of U.S. President Donald Trump's entourage. The delegation's presence signals that commercial ties binding the two economies remain too deep to sever, economists and business executives said.
  • ✇World - South China Morning Post
  • Japan-South Korea ‘comfort women’ row stoked by statues abroad Julian Ryall · Julian Ryall
    Statues erected by South Korean civic groups on the other side of the world honouring the tens of thousands of women forced into sexual slavery by imperial Japanese forces during World War II have once again succeeded in making Tokyo’s elites deeply uncomfortable. The decisions by local governments in Germany’s capital and New Zealand’s largest city to rescind or decline to renew permits for “comfort women” memorials have been pounced on by conservatives within Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic.
     

Japan-South Korea ‘comfort women’ row stoked by statues abroad

14 May 2026 at 00:00
Statues erected by South Korean civic groups on the other side of the world honouring the tens of thousands of women forced into sexual slavery by imperial Japanese forces during World War II have once again succeeded in making Tokyo’s elites deeply uncomfortable. The decisions by local governments in Germany’s capital and New Zealand’s largest city to rescind or decline to renew permits for “comfort women” memorials have been pounced on by conservatives within Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic...

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