The flurry of punitive measures taken against China by the Trump administration over the last few days was prompted by a belief among US officials that China has failed to live up to commitments it made in trade talks earlier this month,

Friction between Beijing and Washington is growing as the Trump administration cracks down on visas for Chinese students and access to advanced computer chips.

China’s emissions have fallen before. In 2022 they dipped after the country’s strict covid-19 controls strangled economic activity. But when factories restarted production, they shot back up again. This time, China’s factories are humming away even as emissions are falling.

A one-two punch from the United States risks shattering the already fragile trade war truce between Washington and Beijing, with Chinese tech companies and students both dealt shock blows by the Trump administration Wednesday night.

The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” The famous adage of the ancient Greek poet Archilochus is reflected in investors’ deeply contrasting attitudes towards China’s stock market.

The Shangri-La Dialogue has historically been the setting for top-level encounters between the US and China – an arena for the superpowers to set out their vision for security in the region. And it's opening again in Singapore on Friday. Here's what we can expect from the three-day event:

Once an auto underdog, the country’s current dominance of the global electric-vehicle market says a lot about why it brims with confidence in other fields.

Less than 20 cases of the new COVID-19 variant, NB.1.8.1, had been reported in the U.S., as of Tuesday, May 27.

China agreed to allow seafood imports from Japan pending some final procedural moves, Japan’s Agriculture Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said on Friday, in a step forward from Beijing’s blanket ban on the shipments following Tokyo’s release in 2023 of wastewater from a wrecked nuclear power plant.