China’s tourists are increasingly skipping Western destinations in favour of the Middle East and Southeast Asia, Travelex data shows.

Decision-makers in Beijing expect that Trump’s brutal pressure will bring Europe closer to China and, on the face of it, this would make sense. But a full-fledged détente between the EU and China is unlikely.

As US President Donald Trump takes a flame-thrower to relations with Europe, Chinese diplomats have been moving through the continent with a message: your best friend has abandoned you. Let's uphold the multilateral order together.

Chinese EV giant BYD is considering building a third plant in Europe and will decide in 1-1/2 to two years whether to do so, its executive vice-president Stella Li said in an interview with German publication Automobilwoche published on Monday.

"Instead what we see, in the first month and a half of this new administration, the conflict is between the U.S. and its allies."

President Donald Trump’s sweeping upending of US foreign policy has alarmed allies and nations in need – as his administration has frozen foreign aid, threatened to take control of other countries’ sovereign territory,

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Sunday praised U.S. President Donald Trump's "common sense" aim to end the war in Ukraine, but accused the European powers which have rallied around Kyiv of seeking to prolong the conflict.

Chinese EV makers have opened up a vast and, some experts say, unassailable lead in the global market despite American and European efforts to level the field.