China orders firms to defy U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil in what analysts call an unprecedented escalation of Beijing's resistance to Washington.

By Nichola Groom May 8 (Reuters) - Top solar companies, banks and insurers have stopped doing business with at least a half dozen recently built U.S. panel factories because of uncertainty over whether their ties to China could disqualify them from clean-energy subsidies,

Economist Jiao Wang talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the way China has diversified its export markets away from the west.

America’s ability to deter China in a war over Taiwan is weakened, Chinese analysts say, giving Beijing leverage in an upcoming summit with President Trump.

By Ella Cao, Tom Polansek, Daphne Zhang and Lewis Jackson BEIJING/CHICAGO, May 8 (Reuters) - U.S. beef producers are hoping for a trade deal during the upcoming leaders' summit that could renew licenses to export to China,

America needs a steady supply of China experts with on-the-ground experience to meet tomorrow’s challenges and opportunities, but this pipeline is under serious strain. Today, many rising scholars on China assume that time in-country will be seen as a mark against them in future careers in government or in the private sector.

China’s top diplomat also warned against the restarting of hostilities as he met with Iran’s foreign minister. The U.S. has urged China to pressure Iran to reopen the waterway.

In response to a foreign media question asking when the Chinese side will officially announce relevant information about the China-US presidential meeting, what expectations China has for this meeting,

US intelligence indicates that China is preparing to deliver new air defense systems to Iran within the next few weeks, according to three people familiar with recent intelligence assessments.

But the rumors proved false. Microsoft stayed put and remains deeply invested in China’s AI ecosystem today. Job postings from as recent as October 2025 bear this out. As documented extensively in a recent report, Microsoft’s entanglements with state ...

China’s rapid embrace of generative and agentic AI tools has pushed its weekly AI data usage beyond U.S. models, signaling a shift from model development to ecosystem dominance. With more than 600 million users and integration across sectors from ...

China's policy toward the US remains consistent and stable, he said, adding that the two countries should take mutual respect as the foundation, peaceful coexistence as the guiding principle, and win-win cooperation as the goal, in order to explore the right way for major countries to get along and jointly contribute to world peace and stability.