Since 2021 Xi Jinping has steered China’s economy away from a preoccupation with property (building it, selling it and furnishing it) towards high-tech manufacturing and other “new productive forces”,

Building on the country’s electric vehicle industry, Chinese companies are making robot parts at a scale and price point others can’t match.

Three months into the Iran war, the oil market is coming to grips with an unexpected new ​reality: China, the world's largest importer, needs much less fuel than previously thought.

Exports to the U.S. surged the most since March 2021, extending a rebound following a long streak of double-digit declines for the most of last year.

The Philippines has protested China’s deployment of what Manila describes as a floating “structure” with personnel on a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, fearing it could be a part of Beijing’s effort to turn the uninhabited atoll into an island base.

Barely a week after Nvidia-backed chipmaker Coherent warned of a shortage of indium phosphide in an earnings call in early May, its CEO Jim Anderson was on a plane with a U.S. business delegation accompanying President Donald Trump on his trip to China.

T hucydides thought rising powers tend to cause conflict. Had he been an economist looking at the explosion of Chinese exports to Europe, he might have expected a trade war. So do many analysts these days. The question is no longer whether Europe will pull up some drawbridges, but how many and how fast, and how it will deal with the consequences.

The FBI has seized more than a dozen websites that officials say were part of a Chinese effort to target American workers who have access to classified or sensitive government information.