China and the United States have agreed to roll back tariffs on each others’ goods in a “phase one” trade deal if it is completed, officials from both sides said on Thursday, sparking division among some advisers to President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping may not be able to sign a partial trade deal until December, and two U.S. locations have been ruled out for their highly anticipated meeting, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Seventy-three percent of businesses from Hong Kong (China) expressed their intention to open additional factories in ASEAN countries, with Vietnam coming out on top as their first pick, according to a recent survey conducted by the Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC).

Fifty two years ago, the founding members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) fought the embers of communism across Asia. Today, Asean is confronting another “FIRe,” the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution.

A Chinese state-run English daily said, “the countries involved in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership shouldn’t lose the chance to include India."

PM Narendra Modi, while addressing 10 Asean leaders, on Sunday welcomed the decision to have a relook at the free-trade agreement between India and the 10-member grouping. Last month, India and Asean initiated a review of the free-trade agreement.

Vietnam, one of the world’s top rice exporters, is thinking of cutting rice output and switching to other crops.

Vietnam-Israel trade reached over US$790 million in the first nine months of 2019, with Vietnam’s export revenue of about US$410 million, according to the Vietnam Trade Office in Israel.

The escalating US-China trade war has made Vietnam’s trade gap with China widen to 29.5 billion USD in the first 10 months of 2019, up 47.9 percent from the same time last year, according to insiders.

Within the framework of the 35th ASEAN Summit and related Summits held in Nonthaburi province, Thailand on November 2-4, leaders of ASEAN member countries and its partners agreed to conclude the negotiations of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) in 2020.