New five-year plan for southern manufacturing and technology hub stresses the need to explore and adopt a wide range of local policies

Political tensions between the U.S. and China have thrust technology and supply chains into the spotlight and threaten to fracture the internet.

Orange and Proximus have picked Nokia to help build 5G networks in Belgium as they drop Huawei amid U.S. pressure to exclude the Chinese firm from supplying key telecoms equipment.

or September, China’s imports surged 13.2% in U.S. dollar terms, according to official customs data on Tuesday. That was far above the 0.3% predicted by the Reuters’ poll.

he two sides are trying to reach an investment deal by the end of the year, but the European side has been frustrated by slow progress. German Chancellor tells Beijing that the EU expects ‘reciprocal’ access to China’s markets.