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Alibaba chairman Jack Ma said on Tuesday that trade frictions between the United States and China could last for two decades and would be “a mess” for all parties involved, citing weak trade rules.

Apple’s trio of new iPhones are predicted to ship 75-80 million units before the year ends.

A new report claims that Samsung might kill off the Galaxy J series to expand the Galaxy A series and introduce the new Galaxy M series.

Cohn's comments mostly tracked the sentiment of Wall Street bankers and other wealthy Americans who have felt unfairly maligned for the mortgage market’s collapse and the economic downturn that ensued.

A new report suggested multiple Apple products might be spared from the Trump administration's upcoming tariffs against Chinese manufacturing.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley accused Russia on Monday of “cheating” on U.N. sanctions on North Korea and said Washington has “evidence of consistent and wide-ranging Russian violations.”

The storm left a wave of destruction in Hong Kong and the Philippines.

Prince Charles embarrassed Queen Elizabeth II by not supporting her cause of fostering good relations with China.

Richard Liu was arrested on Aug. 31 in Minnesota and was released the following day without charge and without paying bail, but remains under investigation by U.S. police.

Florence kept dumping rain on North Carolina on Sunday and officials warned residents that “the worst is yet to come” from a storm that has already killed at least eight people, as rivers inland were likely to flood.

President Donald Trump has directed aides to proceed with tariffs on about another $200 billion of Chinese goods, despite Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s attempts to restart trade talks with China, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday.

Google has reportedly lost several employees over the possibility of the search engine returning to China in censored fashion.

JP Morgan is predicting the next crisis will strike in 2020.

India, Iran's No.2 oil client behind top buyer China, does not recognize the reimposed U.S. sanctions, but winning a waiver from the restrictions is a must for New Delhi to protect its wider exposure to the U.S. financial system.

Larry Kudlow, who heads the White House Economic Council, said U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin had sent an invitation to senior Chinese officials.

"China needs to kill him and replace him with a North Korean general they control," Sen. Lindsey Graham proposed to Trump in 2017, according to Woodward.

Also gaining were shares of companies that could see a boost in sales in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence.

China and Russia have staged joint drills before but not on such a large scale, and the Vostok-2018 (East-2018) exercise signals closer military ties as well as sending an unspoken reminder to Beijing that Moscow is able and ready to defend its sparsely populated far east.

China will ask the World Trade Organization (WTO) next week for permission to impose sanctions on the United States, for Washington’s non-compliance with a ruling in a dispute over U.S. dumping duties, a meeting agenda showed on Tuesday.

Copper prices are expected to bounce back as demand in China stays firm and the surplus supply in the market is cleared, analysts say.

The AP report said the Chinese government’s active resolve to drive people from Christianity and other faiths to the atheist ideology of the Communist Party was part of its efforts to “Sinicize” religion.