The People’s Bank clearly doesn’t feel under great pressure to “follow the Fed”. It left its policy rates on hold this week after the US Fed raised rates and we expect it to cut rates in the coming...

China’s financial markets shrugged off this week’s confirmation that both the US and China will be expanding their tariffs on Monday, with the Shanghai Composite actually having its best week since...

With a further $200bn of US tariffs now confirmed, and China reiterating that it will retaliate with tariffs of its own, we take stock in this short note of where China stands in the trade war.

Both sides in the US-China trade dispute have struck a more conciliatory tone in recent days. The White House has proposed renewed high-level talks. Meanwhile, Chinese officials are rowing back...