This first happened in Japan, then in South Korea and Taiwan, and today this process is in full swing in China. Because of the higher wages, Chinese companies are now relocating their production to countries such as Vietnam and Bangladesh, but also increasingly to Africa. ..…

China claims almost all of the South China Sea lambastes United States and its allies over naval operations near Chinese-occupied islands, states Reuters.. ..…

The bellicosity of Beijing under General Secretary Xi Jinping, has in effect turned South China Sea into Chinese lake. ..…

Chinese military exercises, new weapons systems and the militarization of landfill and disputed islands in the South China Sea, that Beijing intends to become -- at the very least -- East Asia's dominant power, thereby supplanting the US as the in Western Pacific Ocean. ..…

S&P 500: -0.22% . Trump threatens tariffs on $267 billion more of Chinese imports. . ... S&P 500: -0.35% . The United States implements 10% tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese imports. ..…