Observers have been trying to work out what China's Belt and Road initiative means ever since Chinese President Xi Jinping first announced it in 2013. Is it a massive geo-political play, explicitly underlining the end of the American century by replacing it with a China at the centre of old trade routes …

Boeing has struck a $4.25 billion deal to acquire Miami-headquartered aircraft parts distribution, composites and aftermarket supplier KLX Inc.’s Aerospace Solutions Group, marking a further move into the value chain.

The Victorian Government is bringing more manufacturing jobs to Geelong, with the official opening of the industrial innovation and accelerator hub, ManuFutures.

Some countries were then exempted temporarily from those tariffs, including Canada, the EU and Mexico. China was not included in the exemptions and it later retaliated with its own duties on some US imports. Mr Trump responded by calling for further US tariffs against China, escalating trade tensions …

Apr 24 - The EU's trade chief said Monday that the bloc's two most powerful leaders will tell U.S. President Donald Trump to back off on plans to impose steel and aluminum tariffs when they visit Washington this week. French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela …

Apr 24 - Beijing has come a long way since it first landed a jet fighter aboard what was originally HMAS Melbourne in 1987. The former Australian aircraft carrier had been sold for scrap. But it proved a source of valuable technical intelligence for an ambitious Chinese military. China surprised the world again …

Apr 23 - Last week Israelis began a series of events in celebration of 70 years of statehood since the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. While New Zealand's relationship with Israel has in recent years been frosty, history reveals a relationship that was not always so fraught. Indeed …

Apr 23 -The International Monetary Fund's policymaking committee says a strong world economy is threatened by increasing tension over trade and countries' heavy debt burden. Longer-term prospects are clouded by sluggish growth in productivity and ageing populations in wealthy nations. In a statement ...

Apr 21 - Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters is sticking to his desire for a free trade deal with Russia at some point in the future, saying that even North Korea could be one day be an option. Mr Peters made the comments in London at the end of the Commonwealth Heads of government meeting.

The United States has told the World Trade Organisation it has agreed to discuss with China the Trump administration's efforts to slap tariffs on steel, aluminium and an array of goods from China. A Geneva-based trade official said that the move was an expected, but not mandatory, step that buys …