Labour-intensive manufacturing is vanishing and millions of jobs could be lost, with repercussions for stability and growth ...

In a drab office in China's industrial heartland, Andy Xiao frets over the future of his shoe materials business, now straining under sweeping tariffs imposed by Donald Trump. The US president has ...

So in 2006, he began working with a factory in China that manufactured the shoes. Bastian, 45, says he didn’t know exactly who owned the factory, but he believed it was Double Coin, a company ...

“In China, no one wants to make shoes anymore,” he adds ... Reports last year of poor working conditions at the firm’s Guangdong factory, in China, and rock bottom wages in Addis Ababa ...