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1056 articles shownof 1059 totalLast updated 2026-09-22 21:37 UTC
us politics 7 6m ago 4 min read

Two Days Before Trump-Xi Summit, Pressure Mounts to Free Political Prisoners Held in China

Democrats, human rights groups, and family members of detainees are pushing President Trump to raise specific political prisoner cases when he meets Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Sept. 24 in Washington. The ask is built on one real precedent: Trump raising Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri's case in May led to Jin's release in July. Whether that pattern repeats for the Uyghurs, Falun Gong practitioners, and Zion Church pastors still locked up is an open question nobody can answer yet.

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us finance 6 14m ago 4 min read

Copper Nears Record Highs Again as Chinese Warehouses Empty Out and Trump Tariff Plan Stays Unresolved

Copper is back within a stone's throw of its September records on both the London Metal Exchange and Comex, driven by draining Shanghai stockpiles and lingering uncertainty over a possible US tariff on refined metal. The catch: the global refined copper market is technically running a surplus, so the price spike looks more like tariff-driven hoarding and geographic dislocation than an actual global shortage.

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us politics 7 3h ago 4 min read

Senate Democrats Demand Trump Draw a Line on China Chip Sales Before Xi Summit, While Congress's Own AI Bills Stall

With Xi Jinping arriving Wednesday for his third Trump summit in a year, eight senior Senate Democrats sent Trump a letter demanding tougher AI export controls on China, and Chuck Schumer made the same demand from the Senate floor. Meanwhile Congress's own AI agenda is going nowhere: a kill-switch bill got blocked by a fellow Republican, and Capitol Hill sources say lawmakers will likely punt AI legislation to 2027.

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cn economy 7 4h ago 4 min read

LA and Long Beach Post Record August Volumes While China's Share of Cargo Keeps Shrinking

The twin Southern California ports moved a combined 1.87 million containers in August, a record for Long Beach and a near-match to LA's own record. China's share of that cargo has fallen from 70% to 60% at Long Beach and from 60% to 40% at LA since Vietnam muscled in, but port bosses are warning the boom is built on frontloading and canal disruptions, not durable demand.

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us defense 8 5h ago 4 min read

Xi Arrives Wednesday for Third Trump Summit in a Year, as Stanford Data Shows US-China AI Gap Down to 2.7%

Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to land in Washington Wednesday, September 23, ahead of Thursday's summit with President Trump, their third in-person meeting in under a year. New details emerging before the sit-down include a Stanford AI Index finding the U.S. lead over China's top AI model has shrunk to 2.7%, a confirmed state dinner guest list of tech CEOs, and a Democratic congressman's list of specific factory layoffs he blames on Trump's trade policy.

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cn economy 8 8h ago 4 min read

China's Trade Surplus Hits $805 Billion in Eight Months as Container Exports Grab Record 40% Global Share

China's export machine keeps accelerating despite two years of U.S. tariffs, with a $805.5 billion surplus through August and a record 40% share of global container exports. Europe is now getting hit harder than the U.S., running a trade deficit over €1 billion a day, and Brussels is weighing new tariffs and quotas in response.

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us tech 6 10h ago 4 min read

Susan Rice Pitches a U.S.-China AI Freeze. Trump's Own Advisers Say China Already Said No.

Former National Security Advisor Susan Rice told CNN the U.S. and China should order their AI companies to freeze development until an international expert panel solves the safety risks. Trump's team says Beijing has already rejected the idea, and history with China on trade and military pledges gives plenty of reason for skepticism.

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us defense 7 13h ago 4 min read

US Trade Agency Funds Study for New Undersea Cable That Skips the South China Sea

The U.S. Trade and Development Agency is funding a feasibility study for an 18,507-kilometer cable linking Thailand to the U.S. through five other Southeast Asian nations, deliberately routed around the South China Sea. The move comes days after Chinese Coast Guard vessels rammed a Philippine government ship in disputed waters, underscoring why operators want their cables nowhere near Beijing's claims.

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cn finance 8 17h ago 4 min read

Nvidia Guides to $108 Billion for Next Quarter While Assuming Zero China Chip Revenue

Nvidia posted $96.2 billion in quarterly revenue and told investors to expect $108 billion next quarter, but that forecast assumes it sells zero AI data center chips to China. Beijing, not Washington, is now the main obstacle, and a Trump-Xi summit scheduled for Thursday, September 24 could change the math by billions.

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us politics 7 20h ago 4 min read

FBI Files Link Family That Gave Newsom and Harris $4.4 Million to Suspected Chinese Spy Fang Fang

Newly declassified FBI files identify California McDonald's franchise magnate C.C. Yin as the man who allegedly connected Rep. Eric Swalwell to suspected Chinese intelligence operative Fang Fang. Yin's family gave over $4.4 million to Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris and other California Democrats, and neither Yin brother has been accused of a crime. That doesn't mean the questions about access and influence go away.

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us tech 7 1d ago 4 min read

20-Plus Nations Ask UN to Police AI Development. US, UK and China Won't Sign

Finland and Norway led a coalition of roughly 20 to 22 countries in demanding an international body to oversee advanced AI, released Monday ahead of the UN General Assembly's high-level week. Washington, London and Beijing all declined to sign, and the split shows exactly why any real global AI rulebook is still a long way off.

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us economy 8 1d ago 4 min read

Trump and Xi Head Into Thursday Summit With Chinese Tariffs Still at 22.8% and No Permanent Deal in Sight

Trump and Xi meet at the White House on Thursday, September 24, with tariffs still running at an average 22.8% on Chinese goods and the trade balance still lopsided in Beijing's favor. Meanwhile the real fight, over who controls critical minerals, is spreading fast, with Washington signing side deals with Italy while China still owns the refining and magnet-making that everyone actually needs.

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us energy 8 1d ago 3 min read

US and China Discuss Scrapping China's 15% LNG Tariff Ahead of Xi's Washington Visit

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice-Premier He Lifeng met Sunday in New York to hash out a $30 billion reciprocal tariff-cut package, including axing China's 15% tariff on American LNG, before Xi Jinping arrives in Washington this week. History says be skeptical: Trump's 2017 Beijing trip and the 2020 Phase One deal both promised big energy numbers that mostly evaporated.

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us economy 8 1d ago 4 min read

Canada Seeks EU 'Associate Membership' and Reopens China Military Talks as Trump Tariff Fight Grinds On

Since trade talks between Washington and Ottawa collapsed August 21, Prime Minister Mark Carney has pivoted to Europe and China while Trump slaps on more tariffs and calls Brussels' offer to Canada 'laughable.' Meanwhile Great Lakes shipping is already eating the cost, and two Canadian premiers just refused to go along with Carney's retaliation.

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us economy 9 1d ago 4 min read

Trump's New Russia Sanctions Law Puts India and China on the Clock for 100% Oil Tariffs

President Trump has signed the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act into law, giving him congressional authority (harder to reverse than an executive order) to slap 100% tariffs on countries buying Russian oil, squarely aimed at India and China. India's foreign ministry says the move could damage bilateral ties, and with Russia supplying over half its crude, New Delhi has 30 days to find a way out before the tariffs can hit.

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us defense 8 1d ago 4 min read

Kurt Campbell Says US-China AI Framework Won't Bind Beijing, as Congress and the UN Push Rival Rulebooks

A day after Scott Bessent called the New York AI and trade talks with China 'successful,' former Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell says the proposed notification system won't produce real limits on Beijing. Meanwhile Congress is drafting its own light-touch AI bill, the UN's Guterres wants global oversight, and Anthropic's own researchers are sounding alarms Trump calls a hoax.

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us energy 8 1d ago 4 min read

Bessent Calls New York Trade Talks With China 'Successful' Four Days Before Xi's Washington Visit

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng wrapped up talks in New York today calling them successful, with discussions of a $30 billion tariff-reduction package and China's 15% LNG tariff ahead of Xi Jinping's September 24 arrival in Washington. No final agreement has been announced. Rare earth shortfalls, bank sanctions over Iran, and one expert's claim that Xi is prepping for war show the goodwill has limits.

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cn finance 6 1d ago 4 min read

PBOC to Drain $8.4 Billion in Offshore Yuan Wednesday as China's Domestic Loan Growth Hits Record Low

China's central bank will sell 60 billion yuan in six-month bills in Hong Kong on September 23 to prop up the offshore currency, according to the Hong Kong Monetary Authority. The move comes as mainland bank lending growth just hit its weakest pace on record and PBOC Governor Pan Gongsheng is telling the public to expect slower credit growth as the new normal.

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cn tech 5 1d ago 3 min read

South Korea's ETRI Wins Key Roles in UN's First Physical AI Standards Body, China Holds the Chair

The ITU-T Focus Group on Embodied AI, the UN's first dedicated body for standardizing robots and autonomous systems, launched in February 2026 with China's Yuntao Wang as chair and South Korea's ETRI running five of nine working groups. No American organization appears among the named leadership, according to the sources reporting this.

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us politics 8 2d ago 4 min read

Trump Downplays Report Linking Chinese Satellite Imagery to Deadly Iran Strike Ahead of Xi's White House Visit

The Wall Street Journal reported that Chinese entities supplied Iran with satellite imagery of a Jordan base before and after a July 17 attack that killed three U.S. troops. Trump has brushed it off, saying China 'behaved reasonably well' and that 'they basically do what we do,' as he prepares to host Xi Jinping for a state dinner on Thursday, Sept. 24. Sen. Elissa Slotkin wants Trump to make it a centerpiece of the summit; China calls the allegations groundless.

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us economy 8 2d ago 3 min read

Bessent and China's He Open All-Day Trade Talks in Manhattan Days Before Trump Hosts Xi

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Trade Rep Jamieson Greer and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng met Sunday at JPMorgan Chase's Manhattan headquarters to prep AI, tariff and rare-earth deals ahead of the September 24 Trump-Xi summit. The real news: China still hasn't delivered on the rare-earth flows it promised in Busan, and Washington is now negotiating AI guardrails with a country whose flagship AI firm the FBI has accused of stealing American tech.

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us economy 7 2d ago 4 min read

India's Exports to China Jump 39% Even as Congress Hands Trump Tariff Leverage Over Russian Oil Buyers

India's shipments to core BRICS nations rose 34% this fiscal year, with China alone up 39%, even as Xi Jinping and Modi held their first bilateral meeting in India in seven years at the BRICS summit. At the same time, Congress just gave President Trump authority to slap 100% tariffs on countries buying Russian oil, including India, which says it has no plans to stop.

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us energy 7 2d ago 4 min read

Trump Set to Host Xi as US Tries to Close a 15-to-1 Mining Engineer Gap With China

President Trump is preparing to host Chinese President Xi Jinping for a state visit while Washington scrambles on two fronts: rebuilding a gutted domestic mining workforce and figuring out whether Congress can regulate artificial intelligence without handing China the advantage. The numbers are stark and the timelines don't match the urgency.

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us tech 8 2d ago 4 min read

Xi's Washington Visit Nears as US AI Lead Narrows, Built Partly on Chinese-Born Talent

Xi Jinping is set to visit the White House on September 24 with AI dominating the agenda, and Stanford researchers say America's model lead over China is now narrow and fragile. Some of the talent widening that gap for the US came from China, and Carnegie Endowment data shows a chunk of it has gone back home since 2019, a warning sign for a Trump administration betting everything on staying ahead.

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cn defense 6 2d ago 4 min read

Chinese AI Chip Startup EVAS Intelligence Raises Nearly $280 Million, Valuation Jumps Tenfold Since April

Beijing-based EVAS Intelligence just closed a funding round worth nearly $280 million at a $2.1 billion valuation, roughly ten times what investors paid it in April, according to Value Add VC and AngelLinx. The company builds RISC-V AI chips as a domestic alternative to Nvidia, but its product has yet to prove it can compete at scale outside China's state-backed funding ecosystem.

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cn tech 8 2d ago 3 min read

China's CXMT Claims DRAM Chip Parity With Samsung, SK Hynix as Fifth-Gen Platform Hits Mass Production

CXMT, China's largest memory chipmaker, said Sunday its fifth-generation DRAM platform is now in mass production, with new 24Gb LPDDR5X chips already shipping in Chinese flagship phones. The claims are self-reported and not independently verified, but they land four years into U.S. export controls designed to slow exactly this kind of progress.

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cn tech 7 2d ago 4 min read

China's UBTECH Opens Factory Designed for a Humanoid Robot Every 10 Minutes, Weeks After US Import Ban

UBTECH Robotics commissioned a 14,000-square-meter factory in Liuzhou, China on September 12 designed to build over 10,000 industrial humanoid robots a year at a 10-minute pace. The number is a design target, not verified year-round output, and it lands seven weeks after the FCC added humanoid robots to its import blacklist over cybersecurity concerns.

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cn economy 7 2d ago 4 min read

China Holds Lending Rates Frozen for 16th Month as Bessent Meets China's He Ahead of Trump-Xi Summit

China's central bank left its benchmark lending rates unchanged for the 16th straight month on September 20, as the widening gap with Fed rate hikes squeezes Beijing's room to maneuver. Hours later, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent sat down with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in Manhattan to hash out AI, tariff and rare-earth issues before Trump and Xi meet in Washington this week.

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us tech 6 2d ago 4 min read

Albanese Urges US-China AI Treaty From Cupertino While Trump Vows an AI Force to Beat Beijing

Australian PM Anthony Albanese, fresh off meeting Tim Cook at Apple headquarters, wants Washington and Beijing to strike a nuclear non-proliferation style deal on AI before heading to the UN General Assembly. Trump says any slowdown just hands China the advantage, and he is right that unilateral restraint means nothing if Beijing keeps building. Albanese's own copyright and online-safety plans deserve just as much scrutiny as the AI talk.

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sa finance 6 2d ago 3 min read

Saudi Arabia Walks Away from China-Led Digital Currency Payment System

The Saudi Central Bank finished its trial run with mBridge, the China-backed cross-border digital currency platform, and chose not to continue. The exit leaves China, Hong Kong, Thailand and the UAE pushing the SWIFT alternative forward alone, while Riyadh keeps hedging between Washington and Beijing.

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us energy 9 3d ago 4 min read

UN Panel Finds 'Reasonable Grounds' US Committed War Crimes in Iran War, Same Day Russia and China Veto Sanctions Monitoring

A UN fact-finding mission says there's evidence the US committed war crimes in strikes that killed over 150 civilians at a school and 22 more at a sports complex in Iran. Washington rejects the findings outright, while separately Russia and China vetoed a US push to keep independent monitors on Iran's sanctions. Both fights land right as diplomats scramble for an opening at next week's UN General Assembly.

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us tech 6 3d ago 4 min read

Chinese Robot-Chip Maker D-Robotics Raises $400 Million as US Import Ban Blocks Its Biggest Customers

D-Robotics closed a $400 million Series C on September 17, 2026, the largest robotics funding round in China in four years, to build chips and software for humanoid robots. The catch: those same humanoid robots got barred from the US market when the FCC added them to its Covered List in July 2026, according to Tech Times.

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us economy 9 3d ago 4 min read

Trump Signs Lindsey Graham Russia Sanctions Act, Setting Up 100% Tariff Threat Against China and India

President Trump signed the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act into law Friday, giving him authority to slap up to 100% tariffs on the top five buyers of Russian oil and gas, chiefly China and India. India's government is already pushing back, saying it won't bend to outside pressure on energy purchases, while Democrats who voted no warn the tariff power has too few guardrails.

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cn defense 5 3d ago 4 min read

China Tests More J-36 Stealth Fighter Prototypes as Trade War and Taiwan Tensions Escalate

Aviation researcher Andreas Rupprecht says China now has at least four, possibly five, J-36 prototypes flying, with one recently spotted carrying an apparent fire-control radar. The sighting comes as Beijing and Washington trade blows over rare earths, oil supply chains, and Taiwan, though no source claims a shooting war is imminent.

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cn economy 7 3d ago 4 min read

China's 1.4 Billion Barrel Oil Stockpile Is Cushioning Gas Prices During Trump's Iran War

Six months into Trump's war against Iran, oil prices haven't doubled like analysts warned. China's strategic petroleum reserve, built to protect Beijing from supply shocks, is also cushioning U.S. gas prices as a side effect.

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ir energy 9 3d ago 4 min read

Iran Strikes Another Tanker as Shipping Rates Hit $1 Million a Day and China Presses Tehran on Hormuz

Since the U.S. and Israel opened fire on Iran February 28, the war has now pushed benchmark tanker rates past $1 million a day for the first time and added at least three more attacked ships this week, including one Iran claims to have hit Thursday night. China is quietly telling Tehran to rein in its Houthi allies because Beijing needs the oil moving, while Trump says he's still deciding whether to escalate.

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cn economy 7 3d ago 4 min read

China's DRAM Giant CXMT Plans NAND Flash Expansion, Setting Up a Fight With Samsung and Its Own Domestic Rival YMTC

CXMT, China's largest DRAM maker, is preparing to build a NAND flash R&D line in Beijing, according to Reuters. The move would pit it against Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron and SanDisk globally, and against its own countryman YMTC domestically, all while a global memory shortage tied to AI demand keeps prices climbing.

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us defense 8 3d ago 4 min read

AI Chatbot Hallucinated Nuclear Cargo on a Chinese Ship, Nearly Triggering a US Military Boarding, CNN Reports

CNN reports that a US Special Operations Command analyst used an AI chatbot this spring to analyze a Chinese ship's manifest, and the bot invented nuclear weapons components that weren't there. Armed troops and aircraft were readied to intercept the vessel before officials caught the error. Nobody at the Pentagon or SOCOM Pacific has confirmed or denied the account on the record.

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us economy 7 4d ago 3 min read

China's State-Owned Rare Earth Group in Talks to Buy Shenghe, Which Holds 3% of Pentagon-Backed MP Materials

State-owned China Rare Earth Group is negotiating a controlling stake in Shenghe Resources, according to Reuters, and Shenghe owns roughly 3% of MP Materials, the U.S. rare earths producer the Pentagon bailed out last year. MP Materials says neither Shenghe nor Beijing controls its operations, and no deal has closed. Still, the prospect of a Chinese state entity and the Pentagon sharing a shareholder register raises real questions Washington hasn't answered yet.

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us defense 7 4d ago 5 min read

Auto Industry and Senate Democrat Both Press Trump on China Ahead of Xi's Sept. 24 White House Visit

Six U.S. auto trade groups sent Trump a letter urging him to keep Chinese automakers locked out of the U.S. entirely, even as VW's own earnings warning tanked auto stocks Friday. Separately, Sen. Elissa Slotkin wants Trump to confront Xi over Chinese satellite imagery Iran allegedly used before a July strike that killed three U.S. troops in Jordan. Different fights, same target date: Xi lands at the White House September 24.

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cn finance 7 4d ago 3 min read

Volkswagen Slashes 2026 Profit Guidance to Near Zero on €10 Billion Porsche and China Hit

Volkswagen cut its 2026 operating margin target to 1% or less, down from 4-5.5%, after booking a €6 billion Porsche writedown and roughly €10 billion in total charges tied to China's collapsing car market and its own restructuring. Shares fell as much as 7.5% and dragged BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Ford and Stellantis down with them.

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ru defense 7 4d ago 5 min read

AI Chatbots Got Weaponized: Russian Drone Targeting, Chinese Taiwan Strike Planning and a Tel Aviv Bot Farm, All in One Week of Reports

Anthropic and Google both published threat intelligence reports this month showing state-linked hackers from Russia, China and Iran using US-built AI models for drone targeting, cyberespionage and disinformation. Separately, the New York Times found a Tel Aviv firm ran roughly 1,000 AI-driven fake accounts in Israeli political discourse, and Congress held a hearing on foreign influence networks operating inside America. Different actors, same lesson: AI didn't invent foreign influence operations, it just made them faster and cheaper.

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us economy 8 4d ago 4 min read

Treasury Drafts Rules That Would Let US Drugmakers Keep Most China Licensing Deals

The US Treasury Department is writing rules that would preserve most pharmaceutical licensing deals with Chinese biotech firms, blocking only investments tied to weaponizable pathogens, according to Reuters. That's a lighter touch than the crackdowns on chips and EVs, and it sets up a fight between Pfizer, which wants access to Chinese drug pipelines, and China hawks in Congress who call it a strategic dependency risk.

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cn economy 7 4d ago 4 min read

China's Government Spending Fell 6.7% in August, Deepening a Pullback Even as Consumer Demand Stays Weak

Beijing's own Ministry of Finance data show broad budget spending dropped 6.7% year-over-year in August, a faster decline than July's 4.4% drop, according to Bloomberg calculations. That's happening at the same time retail sales grew just 0.4% and fixed-asset investment fell 7.2%, meaning the government is pulling back fiscal support right when its own economists say demand needs more of it.

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cn economy 9 4d ago 3 min read

Houthi Push Toward Red Sea Chokepoint Sends Oil Past $100 as China Presses Tehran on Yemen

Since Trump's February war against Iran's nuclear program spread instability across the Gulf, the Houthis have pushed toward the Bab el-Mandeb chokepoint and hit Saudi oil infrastructure, sending U.S. crude above $100 a barrel and diesel to a record $6.45 a gallon. Reuters reports, via anonymous sources, that Beijing has asked Tehran to rein in its Houthi proxies, a move driven by China's own dependence on Gulf oil, not goodwill toward Washington.

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cn tech 7 4d ago 5 min read

China's AI Price War Splits in Two: Rock-Bottom Models Get Cheaper, Frontier Models Get Pricier

China's AI companies are no longer just racing to zero. DeepSeek launched a sub-penny model this month while jacking up prices on its flagship V4-Pro system by as much as 1,100% in August. Bank of America says the real fight now is cost-per-completed-task, not cost-per-token, and the infrastructure layer, not the model makers, is positioned to win either way.

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cn economy 8 4d ago 4 min read

China's Yttrium Squeeze Puts Rare Earth Supply Chain at Center of Sept. 24 Trump-Xi Summit

China controls up to 90% of global yttrium supply and has throttled shipments to the U.S. and Japan since imposing export controls in April 2025, according to Reuters columnist Andy Home. The metal, critical to jet engine coatings, is now expected to be a major topic when Xi Jinping and Donald Trump meet in Washington on September 24, 2026.

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cn tech 8 4d ago 4 min read

China Threatens to Scrap Sept. 24 Trump-Xi Summit Over Taiwan Arms Sales, Clouding AI Talks

Beijing has reportedly threatened to cancel next week's Washington summit if the U.S. proceeds with Taiwan arms sales beforehand, according to Foreign Policy, putting the planned AI safety discussion between Trump and Xi Jinping in doubt. Meanwhile Trump is touting an illegal government action against Anthropic as proof America already has 'guardrails,' while a top UC Berkeley AI researcher calls his China argument built on a false premise.

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cn finance 7 4d ago 4 min read

G20 Finance Chiefs Take Aim at China's Trade Surpluses as Yuan Hits Four-Year High

G20 finance ministers meeting in Asheville, North Carolina, issued a joint statement in late August targeting countries with excessive export surpluses, a clear shot at Beijing that even Russia signed. Days later, China's currency climbed to its strongest level since 2022 as the Trump-Xi summit approaches, and Washington insists the dollar is still winning despite New York Times warnings otherwise.

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cn tech 7 4d ago 4 min read

China's Open-Weight AI Models Sit Four Months Behind US Rivals, and Tesla Still Can't Get a Robotaxi Permit There

A Mozilla report says China's best open-weight AI models trail American frontier systems by about 4.4 months but cost a fraction of the price, and US companies are routing traffic to them fast. Meanwhile Tesla's driverless Cybercab is on static display in Beijing and Shanghai this week with no permit to actually drive, while Chinese robotaxi operators already run fleets in more than 20 cities. Two different fronts, same story: China's tech ecosystem is closing gaps fast while guarding its own market.

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us tech 8 4d ago 4 min read

Trump and Xi Set to Talk AI Next Week While Washington and Beijing Both Race to Build It Faster

President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are expected to discuss AI governance at a planned Washington meeting next week, but both countries are still racing each other to build more powerful models, not slow down. Even as AI executives call for a slower pace and Britain's King Charles III convenes a safety summit in Scotland today, the U.S. and China each see the other's ambitions, not the technology, as the bigger threat.

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de economy 7 4d ago 4 min read

Germany's Finance Minister Demands EU Tariffs on Chinese Hybrids as Chinese Car Sales in Europe Head Past 1 Million

German Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil stood at Volkswagen's Wolfsburg headquarters Thursday and told Brussels to slap tariffs on Chinese plug-in hybrids and tighten local-content rules. The EU already asked China last week to voluntarily cap hybrid exports at 15% of the market. Now Germany, facing an AfD surge and a VW workforce losing 100,000 jobs, wants Brussels to stop asking nicely.

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ru defense 8 4d ago 4 min read

Russia and China Veto UN Panel That Would Have Kept Tracking Iran Sanctions Violations

Russia and China killed a US-drafted resolution Thursday that would have extended UN expert monitoring of sanctions on Iran, with 11 members voting yes and only Pakistan and Somalia abstaining. The veto comes days after the IAEA referred Iran to the Security Council for nuclear safeguards breaches for the first time in 20 years, and as satellite images show Iran hardening tunnel entrances at its Pickaxe Mountain site.

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cn energy 8 5d ago 5 min read

China's 1.4-Billion-Barrel Reserve Faces New Test as Saudi Pipeline Attack Sends Brent Above $140

Since Iranian forces first choked traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, Beijing's record oil stockpile let it slash imports and dodge the worst of the price shock. Now a militant attack on Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline and a Houthi push toward the Bab al-Mandab Strait have sent Brent spiking again, and China is reportedly buying back into the open market at the worst possible moment.

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us tech 7 5d ago 4 min read

Huawei Chairman Says China's AI Isn't Advanced Enough Yet to Hit the Risks Scaring US Labs

Huawei's rotating chairman Eric Xu told reporters at the company's Connect conference in Shanghai on September 17 that Chinese AI developers need to move faster because they haven't yet reached the computing power where they'd encounter the safety risks US labs are reporting. It's the clearest admission yet from a top Chinese tech executive that Beijing is behind, and it lands right as Washington argues with itself over whether to slow down at all.

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cn economy 8 5d ago 4 min read

Europe's Carmakers Cut Over 100,000 Jobs as EU Asks China to Cap Hybrid Vehicle Exports

Volkswagen, Jaguar Land Rover and others are slashing well over 100,000 jobs as Chinese brands like BYD and Chery grab market share across Europe. Brussels is now asking Beijing to voluntarily limit hybrid exports ahead of October trade talks, a move EU officials themselves call managed trade, not free competition.

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cn economy 8 5d ago 3 min read

China Rejects US Russia Sanctions Bill as 'Long-Arm Jurisdiction' After House Passage

China's Foreign Ministry rejected the Lindsey O Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act 2026 hours after the US House passed it 262-159, sending it to Trump's desk. Beijing spokesman Guo Jiakun called the threatened 100% tariffs on Russian oil buyers unauthorized by the UN Security Council. The bill still needs Trump's signature, and nothing has actually been imposed yet.

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us health 6 5d ago 4 min read

Gray-Market Retatrutide Sales Surge as FDA Warns No Legal Version Exists, China Supply Chain Under Scrutiny

Retatrutide, an experimental Eli Lilly weight-loss drug still years from FDA approval, is being injected by hundreds of Americans who bought it online or from compounding pharmacies with no lawful pathway to sell it, according to a preprint study and FDA warning letters. Blockchain researchers say some proceeds trace back to Chinese chemical manufacturers already linked to fentanyl precursors, a claim conservative outlets are pushing Washington to treat as a national security problem, not just a consumer-safety one.

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us defense 8 5d ago 4 min read

US Intelligence Warns Saudi F-35 Sale Could Give China a Backdoor Into Stealth Fighter Secrets

A US intelligence assessment says the proposed $24 billion sale of 48 F-35 jets to Saudi Arabia could let China access the jet's radar and surveillance technology through Chinese personnel at Saudi bases and Huawei and ZTE telecom gear already embedded in the kingdom's networks. The warning lands the same month FBI, NSA, and CISA accused six Chinese AI firms of stealing US models at industrial scale, underscoring a wider pattern of Beijing working every available angle to close the tech gap.

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cn defense 8 6d ago 4 min read

China Presses Iran and US to Reopen Strait of Hormuz Ahead of Xi-Trump Summit

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Iran's Araghchi in Beijing to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and return to the June memorandum with Washington, just a week before Xi meets Trump. Shipping data shows the strait's traffic has collapsed to a fraction of pre-war levels, directly contradicting the Trump administration's claim that flows are back to normal.

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