Weeky Top News - 2019 February 3
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China seems to be picking Belt and Road favorites. The Ambassadors of Pakistan, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Malta and Bosnia and Herzegovina to China were conferred Silk Road Super Ambassador Awards in Beijing on January 24. - Read more
Beijing’s envoy to the EU has launched a blistering attack on the “slander” and “discrimination” faced by Huawei and other Chinese companies in Europe, warning that efforts to exclude China from 5G mobile projects would be self-defeating. - Read more
Malaysia is in talks with China over the $20-billion East Coast rail project, the finance minister said on Wednesday, just days after another cabinet minister said Kuala Lumpur had decided to cancel the contract. - Read more
The Chinese government will rush a new foreign investment law through its rubber-stamp parliament in March, in a move that Beijing hopes will help smooth over trade talks. - Read more
China’s trade delegation to the US said the two sides had “clarified a timetable and roadmap” for the next round of trade negotiations. Trump said he was optimistic the world’s two largest economies could reach “the biggest deal ever made”. - Read more