The appointment makes Li a key member of China’s trade negotiation team as Beijing deals with trade disputes with the U.S.

Hong Kong’s postal service will stop handling packages coming from or going to the United States amid an escalating trade war between the world’s two largest economies.

In a shift in tone, China dropped its call for negotiations on trade in a weekend statement that condemned U.S. tariffs.

"There will be a trade deal 100%," Trump said ahead of a luncheon at the White House with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia ...

The United States accounted for only 3 percent of China’s natural gas imports last year. Those purchases could now dry up ...

The shift within the top leadership at the commerce ministry comes as Beijing pursues a hardline stance in an intensifying trade war with Washington triggered by Trump's steep tariffs on items ...

China will pay no attention if the United States continues to play the "tariff numbers game", China's foreign ministry said ...

President Donald Trump is heading into another volatile week of his trade wars facing an urgent need to de-escalate the ...

But slapping reciprocal tariffs on Washington is not the only way Beijing has been able to retaliate. China has now also imposed export controls on a range of critical rare earth minerals and ...

Trump's tariffs on Chinese goods are now at a whopping 145 percent. Despite carve-outs on certain high-tech products like iPhones as well as Trump's own confidence that Chinese President Xi Jinping ...

Tariff on most goods from Taiwan is the latest in a string of confusing signals from the Trump administration that has Taipei ...