Rubio Slams Beijing Over South China Sea
By any measure, China’s EV growth has been extraordinary — more than half of new cars sold last year were electric. The global implications could be staggering.
Beijing was steeling itself for a first-week assault from Donald Trump. That hasn’t happened — yet — so Chinese leaders are making nice and hoping to cut a deal.
China’s navy has commissioned a new-generation frigate as competition rises with the US and other regional powers, saying the ship will “play a vital role in enhancing the overall combat effectiveness” of its forces.
Authorities’ request for state-owned insurance companies and mutual funds to invest more in stocks got a lackluster market reaction.
US President Donald Trump had threatened 60% tariffs on Chinese goods on his campaign trail.
China announced plans on Thursday to channel hundreds of billions of yuan of investment from state-owned insurers into shares as part of the government's latest efforts to support a struggling stock market.
Top diplomats from China and India will meet next week in Beijing as the nuclear-armed neighbors try to repair ties marred by a border dispute nearly five years ago.
Markets were cautiously optmistic after Trump took a lighter approach to China on Monday. That sentiment lasted a day.
The founder of artificial intelligence (AI) firm DeepSeek, touted as 2025's "biggest dark horse" in the open-source large language model (LLM) arena, emerged as the industry's new face in China at a symposium hosted by Premier Li Qiang in Beijing on Monday.
China had protested what it called "close-in reconnaissance" of Chinese territory by the U.S. military in the past.
Rubio's appointment as secretary of state has been seen as sign that Trump plans to maintain a hard line on China.