HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Asia stocks retreated Monday as tensions on the Korean peninsula weighed on sentiment, but data showing China’s GDP growth was higher than expected in the first quarter was a positive sign for the world’s second largest economy. Tensions between Pyongyang and Washington have soared in recent weeks as a series of North Korean weapons tests have wrought ever-more bellicose warnings from US President Donald Trump’s administration. During a visit to […]