The Commerce Department said the ZTE action is a law enforcement matter unrelated to broader discussions of trade policy.
The Chinese president called the business advisory council an important platform of deepening bilateral economic and trade ties and a new cooperation mode of combining strong ones and complementing each other's advantages.
The Commerce Department has received more than 2,400 applications from companies seeking waivers from the administration's tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, which may result in duty payments of millions of dollars for larger businesses. The department has begun posting the requests online for public comment; several of the applications released so far suggest deep misgivings with Trump's protectionist strategy, especially in areas where he won strong support during the 2016 election.
The DPRK also opened a door to the resumed dialogue with the US side. According to the DPRK's official Korean Central News Agency, First Vice Foreign Minister of the DPRK Kim Kye-gwan said his country was ready to sit down for talks with Washington anytime.
The Danjiangkou Reservoir in Central China's Hubei province. [Photo/VCG]
The Democrats will now head House committees that can investigate the president's tax returns, possible business conflicts of interest and any links between his 2016 election campaign and Russia.
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The Chinese-built Soubre hydroelectric power station is inaugurated in Soubre, Cote d'Ivoire on Nov 2, 2017. [Photo/Xinhua]
The Congress stresses that it takes a good blacksmith to make good steel. For the Party to unite the people and lead them in carrying out our great struggle, advancing our great cause, and realizing our great dream, we must unwaveringly uphold and improve Party leadership and make the Party still stronger. The general requirements for Party building for the new era are: Uphold and strengthen overall Party leadership and ensure that the Party exercises effective self-supervision and practices strict self-governance in every respect; take strengthening the Party's long-term governance capacity and its advanced nature and purity as the main thrust, take enhancing the Party's political building as the overarching principle, take holding dear the Party's ideals, convictions, and purpose as the underpinning, and take harnessing the whole Party's enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity as the focus of efforts; make all-around efforts to see the Party's political building enhanced, its theory strengthened, its organizations consolidated, its conduct improved, and its discipline enforced, with institution building incorporated into every aspect of Party building; step up efforts to combat corruption and continue to improve the efficacy of Party building; and build the Party into a vibrant Marxist governing party that is always at the forefront of the times, enjoys the wholehearted support of the people, has the courage to reform itself, and is able to withstand all tests.
The Commerce Department issued 90-day temporary licenses on May 20, Aug 19 and Nov 19. The existing license was set to expire on Feb 16.
The Danish jewelry manufacturer entered the Chinese market in 2010 with its local head office located in Shanghai. Founded in 1982, the Nasdaq - and Copenhagen-listed group has 27,300 staff worldwide. Around 13,200 of them are located in Thailand.