U.S.-China relations

Chinese biopharma stocks surge on U.S. drug deal rules

Chinese biopharma stocks rallied sharply in Hong Kong on Monday after reports that the U.S. Treasury Department is drafting rules that would preserve American pharmaceutical companies' ability to license most drugs from Chinese firms. The Hang Seng Biotech Index rose…

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Cook, Altman, Huang to attend Trump-Xi state dinner

Apple Executive Chairman Tim Cook, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang are set to attend President Donald Trump's state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping on September 24, bringing some of the most powerful figures in artificial…

Nvidia CEO Huang to attend Trump state dinner for Xi

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is set to attend President Donald Trump's state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping when Xi visits Washington next week, sources familiar with the matter said Tuesday.

China calls Anthropic CEO’s AI slowdown plan a ‘Cold War playbook’

China's state-backed Global Times on Monday published a sharp editorial denouncing Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call for slowing the development of frontier artificial intelligence, labeling the proposal a "Cold War playbook" designed to curb Beijing's technological rise. The rebuke landed…

Humanoid robots beat Bolt’s 100m record at Beijing games

Chinese humanoid robots shattered multiple human world records, including Usain Bolt's 100-meter sprint mark, on the opening day of the second World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on Saturday, in a dramatic showcase of the country's accelerating robotics ambitions.

China grows anxious over Anthropic’s Mythos ahead of Trump-Xi summit

Chinese officials are growing increasingly anxious that Anthropic's advanced AI model Mythos could be deployed as a weapon against the world's second-largest economy, injecting a volatile new dimension into already-strained U.S.-China relations ahead of a planned summit between President Xi…

Alibaba surges after judge blocks Pentagon lobbying ban

Alibaba Group Holding shares surged on Wednesday, posting their largest single-day gain since September 2025, after a federal judge ordered the Pentagon not to enforce a lobbying ban tied to the company's designation as a Chinese military company.

Rubio says Taiwan will come up at Trump-Xi summit next week

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed on Tuesday that Taiwan will be a topic of discussion when President Donald Trump meets Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on May 14-15, warning against any "destabilizing" actions regarding the self-governing island…