There is mounting
tension between the two countries.
两国之间的紧张局势日益加剧。
Listening to the music will help to ease the
tension.
听音乐将有助于缓解紧张情绪。
We have to find our ways to relieve the
tension of busy life.
我们必须找到办法来缓解缓解忙碌生活的压力。
To reduce tension and friction of the cable during traction — a process of line laying — the company used wire rope traction as if installing an "exoskeleton" for the cable, and used pipeline lubrication materials to reduce friction, ensuring that the cable remained intact during the dragging process.
为了减少电缆在铺设线路的牵引过程中的张力和摩擦，该公司使用钢丝绳牵引，就像为电缆安装“外骨骼”一样，并使用管道润滑材料来减少摩擦，确保电缆在牵引过程中保持完整。
To reduce the tension and friction of the cable during traction — a process of the construction — the company adopted wire rope traction, installing an "exoskeleton" for the cable, and using pipeline lubrication materials to reduce friction, ensuring that the cable was intact during the dragging process.
为了减少电缆在牵引过程中的张力和摩擦——这是一个施工过程——该公司采用了钢丝绳牵引，为电缆安装了“外骨骼”，并使用管道润滑材料来减少摩擦，确保电缆在拖动过程中完好无损。
"These moves will bolster cross-border business activity and speed up the global economic recovery, which is hampered by the COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitical tension and interest-rate hikes in developed economies," Zhao said.
赵表示：“这些举措将促进跨境商业活动，加快全球经济复苏，而全球经济复苏受到新冠肺炎疫情、地缘政治紧张局势和发达经济体加息的阻碍。”。
- Uniqlo will not take sides in the US-China tension, said Tadashi Yanai, CEO of the Japanese casual wear chain's operator Fast Retailing.
-优衣库的首席执行官柳井忠史表示，优衣库不会在美中紧张局势中偏袒任何一方。
The issue highlighted the shifting paradigm between brands and livestreaming hosts, from one of symbiosis to one of tension, if not confrontation, said market insiders.
市场内部人士表示，这一问题突显了品牌和直播主持人之间的范式正在转变，从共生到紧张，如果不是对抗的话。
Already, 64 percent of the companies saw revenue growth in 2020, and still more－70 percent－of surveyed companies expect their revenue to increase in 2021, bouncing back to pre-COVID-19 pandemic and trade tension levels that were distorted in 2019 and 2020, according to the survey.
However, it is also a challenging process, one that often involves tension and conflict within the family unit.
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd said it would steer clear of looming geopolitical tension and adjust international businesses accordingly after it reported higher-than-expected sales in the second quarter of this year.
Analysts from JPMorgan Chase & Co said in a report earlier this month that geopolitical tension between the two major economies could exert a negative impact on the growth of Chinese internet companies such as Alibaba, Tencent Holdings Ltd and NetEase Inc in the mid-to-longer term as they might encounter obstacles to international expansion.
"Some 60 to 70 percent of the people who availed of the services reported symptoms relating to tension and anxiety," said Tan Laixun, director of the neurology department of Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University in Hubei province, the epicenter of the outbreak.
Meng's arrest has exacerbated ongoing diplomatic tension between Canada and China and drawn worldwide attention to Canada's extradition laws and precedents.
CEO Tim Cook, who said on Jan 2 that a slowdown in China’s economy and US-China trade tensions had caused a drop in iPhone sales in China, told Reuters on Tuesday that those tensions were easing: “If you were to graph up trade tension, it’s clearly less in January than it was in December.
Tension escalated last year when Canada arrested Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, who is also daughter of the company's founder, Ren Zhengfei.
JLR said escalating trade tension between China and the United States has dented consumer confidence in China.
US president asks iPhone manufacturer to relocate plants to home countryApple Inc is likely to suffer greatly from the ongoing China-US trade tension, as experts said moving production of its iPhones from China to the United States could lead to a price rise of as much as 20 percent.
The mega-sized deal comes at a delicate time, as escalating Sino-US trade tension casts a shadow over the city's stock market and the lukewarm performance of high-profile companies including Ping An Good Doctor and Xiaomi dampens investor enthusiasm.
The deal between Qualcomm and NXP revolved around anti-monopoly and has nothing to do with China-US trade tension, said Ministry of Commerce on Thursday.
This could in part explain the escalating tension between Bytedance and Tencent since June, when the pair filed competing lawsuits against each other over content and data, and even reported the cases to the police.
"Business doesn't care for uncertainty, and the current trade tension among the world's economies is creating enough upheaval that Spiesshofer is concerned about the potential fallout.
Regarding the trade tension between China and the US, Wood points out that even though China Construction America (CCA) is a Chinese company, the vast majority of its revenue is spent in the US.
As the country where the world's most Fortune 500 companies are based, the United States is expected to bear the brunt of escalating trade tension in its corporate sector.
We wouldn't worry that the (China-US) trade tension may result in a tariff hike on our blowers.
They warned that a policy mistake on either side could escalate the tension and cause significant disruption to the global economy and financial markets.
Sometimes entrepreneurs are forced to bow to an investor's will in the event of a clash of agendas, which can be a source of tension," Lin said.
Weinand said that this aligns with the Chinese government's mission to tackle the current principal contradiction faced by the Chinese people, which is the tension between "unbalanced and inadequate development and the people's ever-growing needs for a better life".
Economist Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University in New York, said a lot of the tension between the US and China arises from the US side.
Global investment players reexamine biz strategies amid US-China tensionGlobal investors are reexamining their business layouts amid the economic tension between the United States and China, and will likely bank on more localized strategies for better investment returns in the coming years, industry experts said.
… Everything that increases the tension between the two … is stupid, stupid and stupid.
Economist Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, said a lot of the tension between the US and China arises from the US side.
As Baerbock expressed concerns on the Taiwan question, Qin said the fundamental cause of tension in the Taiwan Strait lies in separatist activities by "Taiwan independence" forces and external forces that support them, and "'Taiwan independence' and peace cannot coexist".
On Thursday, Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, called for a step change in international cooperation to reduce the impact of economic fragmentation and geopolitical tension, in order to make the global economy more vibrant and create better opportunities for all.
Charlie Dai, vice-president and director of research at Forrester, said: "The Chinese government has been constantly optimizing its epidemic prevention and control measures, and easing influence brought on by the pandemic, geopolitical tension and global economy slowdown.
A cable-stayed bridge is one in which the bridge deck's weight is supported by diagonal tension cables attached to one or more towers.
Chen Jia, a researcher at the International Monetary Institute of the Renmin University of China, said China and the EU enjoy ample space for cooperation in several areas amid global pressure from geopolitical tension and mounting uncertainties over the global economic outlook.
Despite uncertainties and pressures from high inflation overseas, geopolitical tension and the pandemic, China has the confidence and capabilities to keep prices within a reasonable range and meet the consumer inflation target of around 3 percent for 2022, said Wan Jinsong, director of the NDRC's Department of Price.
The China Institute for Employment Research's index, which measures the degree of supply-demand tension in the labor market, hit rock bottom for the first time since the pandemic began in 2020 and came to 0.71 for new graduates in the first three months year-on-year.
Continued tension between the US and China will remain a nuisance for investors in the foreseeable future.
The technological level of China's exports has increased despite the trade tension with the US, according to a new ranking which predicts the Chinese economy will grow faster than India's over the next decade, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.
That said, we don't expect this tension to derail China's long-term economic progression.
Shada Islam, head of the New Horizon Project, a Brussels-based global strategy and advisory company, said that the current tension is not conducive to a rational discussion of the pros and cons of the agreement.
US-China tension, if heightened and expanded from trade to technology, could raise concerns that global technology may become bifurcated, divided with adverse ramifications for the global economy, the economist said.
Despite widespread reports of pandemic-fueled supply chain disruptions and bilateral trade tension inspired reviews of risks and vulnerabilities, the survey results do not indicate a major shift in members' manufacturing and sourcing outside of China, with about 83 percent of the respondents indicating that their existing manufacturing and sourcing will remain in China.
How to address the tension between patent protection of pharmaceutical products and the public interest needs urgent resolution.
The parachutes used at Nam's skydiving center are routinely subjected to tension tests, designed to ensure that they are still strong enough for the job.
Zhang Enming, general manager of the skydiving company, said that adding tension tests increases the company's operating costs, but ensures the safety of both tourists and instructors.
Hundreds of millions of Chinese living in today's fast-paced society are listening to audio recordings or broadcasts of soothing music to relieve tension, fall asleep faster and sleep more soundly.
On Wednesday, xLobo Express, the cross-border logistics arm of Shanghai-based e-commerce platform Ymatou, said that the geopolitical tension is expected to cause an air transportation price increase.
Li Tao, a researcher at the Chinese Center For Disease Control and Prevention, said that under the pandemic situation, it is common that employees suffer from mental health issues, such as tension.
"Businesses are suggested to pay attention to workers' psychological condition in time, offer mental health-aiding services, helping them ease tension and anxiety," Li said.
"But increasing trade tension rhetoric may also have dented confidence about buying in the US, along with uncertainty over whether travel restrictions would be applied in the future.
Some economists even call that a healthy adjustment that can help ease the social tension caused by skyrocketing prices in the past.
In the face of increasing tension over energy and resources, continuously severe air pollution and stricter emissions laws, the development of new energy buses has become an inevitable choice for the global transportation industry, said Pawel Jakubowski, CEO of Polskie LNG, the operator of an LNG terminal in Poland.
He said despite the ongoing China-US trade tension, "we are confident and capable of dealing with a wide range of risks and challenges, given our strong manufacturing presence and capacity".
The trend also came as Chinese TMT companies become more globalized and are expected to be stronger in the future despite the current trade tension between China and the US.
Although export control tension continues, ASML is still supporting China while complying with laws and regulations, the company said.
Jeffrey Sachs, a renowned economist and professor at Columbia University, told China Daily that there is a lot of tension between the US and China and, "I believe a lot of that tension arises from the US side.
China is the world's largest new energy automobile market, so having manufacturing capacity in the country will help Tesla avoid increasingly uncertain import tariffs because of the trade tension between China and the US, said the new website.
"For instance, blinking suggests emotional tension," said Liu Xiaojun, an engineer with Omron.
Analysts at UBS expect gold prices to touch $2,000 per ounce before the end of the year, driven higher by low US interest rates, a weaker dollar, coronavirus concerns and tension between the United States and China.
According to the experts, the Chinese economy has been gradually returning to normalcy, even as other countries are enacting coronavirus-containment measures to limit the infection and global financial markets are under tension.
Even the escalation of the trade tension between China and the United States did not lead to such a big move.
The city's economy has been hit by a set of factors including global economic slowdown, trade tension between Beijing and Washington and local social unrest, which have led to a sharp drop of retail sales and the number of tourist arrivals.
A more flexible exchange rate is the primary reaction to changing expectations on US-China trade tension risks.
The A-share market may extend gains in the rest of the month, as investor sentiment recovers amid rising expectations of macro stimulus and positive news about the trade tension between China and the United States - the two parties are due to restart trade talks next month, Wang added.
Inflow of actively managed funds, which use the indexes as investment benchmarks, may also speed up, based on the premise of no major escalation in the trade tension or yuan depreciation, Zhang said.
Despite the unclear prospects of the ongoing trade conflict with the United States and a slower domestic economic growth, market sentiment has been improving as A-share investors have been able to digest negative external shocks such as China-US trade tension escalation and are now shifting their attention to domestic policies to guide their future investment decisions.
China's stock market rose for the third consecutive day on Friday, appearing to be unaffected by the sharp market volatility in the United States amid investor fears about a global recession and uncertainties over Sino-US trade tension.
Japan and Korea are managing deteriorating economic conditions -- in large part due to the external shock from trade tension," she said.
"Accelerating the opening of China's financial sector will help the country better integrate with the international markets amid the risks of escalating trade tension between China and the United States," Fang said.
"The recent financial market vulnerability reflected investors' concerns that trade tension escalation would further stall global economic growth," said Zhao.
The US Fed made the first cut in its key interest rate in a decade to counter impacts from trade tension, low inflation and global weakness.
Measures may be taken in coming weeks to counter downside risksModerate inflation and the global dovish monetary environment may provide more room for the Chinese authorities to adjust money and credit supplies as a tool to counter downside risks if trade tension escalates, said economists.
Financial officials reiterated recently that China still has plenty of policies in its toolkit to offset the impact from the ongoing trade tension with the United States.
Li Yang, director of the National Institution for Finance and Development of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that China is unlikely to sacrifice foreign exchange reserves to defend its currency, even if depreciation pressure rises amid any escalation in trade tension.
The new tariffs and the rising tension have put downward pressure on the yuan, raising risks of volatility in the short term, Michael Taylor, managing director and chief credit officer for Asia-Pacific at Moody's Investors Service, told China Daily.
Liu cautioned however that if the trade tension is prolonged, it may weigh on the A-share market in the long term.
Hu from the Central University of Finance and Economics said that short-term factors, including the further impact of tax cuts, trade tension with the US, and economic growth pressure may weigh on fiscal revenue growth.
"People hate uncertainties … there may be an impact on the confidence of Chinese business, and some of them may lose confidence in equity investments in the stock market," Zhou Xiaochuan, the former central bank governor, told CNBC on Friday, answering questions about the impact of Sino-US trade tension on the Chinese economy.
An uncertain global economic outlook accompanied by escalated trade tension could further drive investors' risk aversion and lead to a retreat of investment, said the central bank report.
While some negative factors have had an impact, such as escalating trade tension with Washington pressuring the exchange rate of the yuan and worries on rising defaults risks, there is much growth potential for foreign investors to participate in, analysts said.
The trade tension also coincides with the current review of China's new tax laws, multiple tax abatement initiatives, including higher monthly exemptions and more deductibles, which are expected to take effect early next year after they're approved by lawmakers.
It may not be the perfect timing for dim sum bond issuance, some experts said, as the recent weakening of Chinese currency may stagger investors, who are reluctant to take on risk amid market uncertainties as the Sino-US trade tension escalated.
In contrast, the euro weakened 3.2 percent and the yuan slipped nearly 1 percent, when the global market showed concerns about Sino-US trade tension and the rising political risks in Italy and Spain.
Despite some uncertainties and trade tension between the two countries, Paulson said what's more important is a more balanced, secure and productive Sino-US relationship.
One risk that needs to be taken into account in the near term is the Sino-US trade tension, warned Jameel Ahmad, global head of Currency Strategy and Market Research at forex broker ForexTime.
"There is a concern that a breakthrough in the trade tension will be unlikely and any suggestions that there will be a breakdown in talks between the two largest economies in the world presents a risk that the financial markets will react," said Ahmad, stressing that the potential negative impacts would include a reduction of purchasing momentum for emerging market currencies, which could push cross-border capital flows out of those countries.
Some market watchers speculated that the recent fluctuations in the global financial market and Sino-US trade tension would delay the debut of the guidelines, but some local media quoted anonymous senior officials as saying the launch is still "right on schedule", possibly by the beginning of May.
Zhang Yuyan, director of the Institute of World Economics and Politics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said "the Sino-US trade friction brings significant uncertainties in the world's two largest economies, and I don't expect any intensified tension spreading into the financial sector".
The unexpected move is likely to boost China's bond market while stabilizing the stock market, considering that recent Sino-US trade tension may increase uncertainties in the second quarter's economic growth, said Zhang Ming, a researcher with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
"But we think that the A-share market has shaken off the negative impact of the trade tension between China and the United States," he said.
Timothy Orchard, head of equities for Asia Pacific at Fidelity International, shared the concern that an escalating trade tension between the US and China could be damaging for the markets.
Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange climbed on Tuesday to their highest level since last September as geopolitical tension flared around the Korean Peninsula.
China called on all parties involved in the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue to refrain from provoking each other and raising tension.
"Ping An Bank Co Ltd said some of its clients, including private small and medium-sized enterprises and low-end manufacturers, suffered a profit slump and financing difficulties, which caused capital chain tension.