U.S. stocks climbed Tuesday, with the Dow gaining more than 400 points, as remarks from Chinese President Xi Jinping soothed concerns about a trade war that have roiled markets in recent weeks.
China’s massive build program to recreate trade routes stretching from Asia to Africa and Europe is gaining momentum.
In late March, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who had not stepped foot outside the hermit kingdom since taking power in 2011, traveled to Beijing to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping for the first time.
China will have a chance to showcase warmer ties with the Philippines if it wins a contract to rebuild a city ravaged by Islamic State-inspired terrorists last year, a cabinet member said.
China has installed equipment on two of its fortified outposts in the Spratly Islands capable of jamming communications and radar systems, a significant step in its creeping militarization of the South China Sea, U.S. officials say.
China’s President Xi Jinping says his country will “significantly lower” import tariffs on automobiles as part of a broader move to open up its economy amid a major trade dispute with the U.S.
For much of the past 20 years, China’s strategy in Africa could be summarized in two words: invest and extract. Today, that is no longer the case. China’s agenda in Africa, and throughout much of the global south, has broadened significantly in pursuit of Beijing’s military, humanitarian, and geopolitical interests.
Chris Fenton most recently served as the President of DMG Entertainment Motion Picture Group & General Manager of DMG North America, orchestrating, internationally, the creative and business activities of DMG—a multi-billion-dollar global media company based in Beverly Hills with a China component publicly traded on the Shenzhen Exchange. Specifically, Fenton supervised the development, financing, production, marketing, and distribution of DMG’s globally-focused entertainment content. In addition, he managed DMG’s vast library of intellectual property as well as directed the M&A and strategic investment usage of DMG’s capital resources. Fenton also produced or supervised 20 films ranging from big budget franchises—Iron Man 3, Point Break, and 47 Ronin—to more niche-oriented films—Looper, Waiting, Blockers, and Chappaquiddick—grossing almost $2 billion in the worldwide box-office. Fenton currently serves on the Boards of the U.S.-Asia Institute, the China-Hollywood Society, Cornell in Hollywood, and Arcturus VR, and is an active member of the ATAS and the PGA. Fenton, an engineering graduate of Cornell University, spent the first eight years of his career as a William Morris Agency television & motion picture agent.
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