With the upheaval in the Persian Gulf disrupting oil and gas supplies, Russia is looking to deepen its energy ties to China.
A series of precedent-setting rulings signals that Chinese courts are being enlisted to shield workers from displacement by artificial intelligence.
El futuro tecnológico está tomando forma a una velocidad vertiginosa, pero lo que promete no es para todos.
After President Trump hinted that weapons sales to Taiwan could figure in negotiations with China, officials emphasized their island’s strategic importance.
For this to happen, however, both men would need personality transplants.
China’s Ministry of Commerce said Saturday that the countries had struck a preliminary agreement to reduce some tariffs, seemingly contradicting statements by President Trump
The lack of concrete agreements with Beijing shows the risks of President Trump’s personality-driven foreign policy, which rests on the belief that he can defend U.S. interests through charm and force of will.
The Russian leader will go to Beijing on Tuesday for talks with President Xi Jinping. The Kremlin said he had watched President Trump’s visit closely.
Does Xi Jinping see the world this way?
As a senator, Marco Rubio even hinted at the need for regime change in China. Now he talks about cooperation.
Xi Jinping se ha pasado el último año haciendo frente al presidente Donald Trump. Ahora, tras dejar clara su posición y establecer a China como par de Estados Unidos, se está enfocando en redefinir su relación.
The president said a potential arms deal for Taiwan was a “very good negotiating chip” in talks with Beijing. His words raise questions about the steadfastness of U.S. support.
Responses to a guest essay by Molly Jong-Fast, “I Tried to Become My Mother and Ended Up Becoming Myself.” Also: President Trump in China; a gift to Big Tobacco.
After President Trump’s meeting in Beijing with China’s leader, Xi Jinping, our reporter David Sanger examines the differences in their body language and style.
El presidente regresa a Estados Unidos tras una cumbre en China, en la que ambos países trataron de estabilizar sus relaciones económicas y políticas.
On Threads and other sites, liberal-minded Chinese accounts were mocking the proceedings and offering a rare window into opinions on Xi Jinping and his leadership style.
The Trump-Xi summit emphasized stability. But China’s recruitment of foreign agents has fueled suspicion of Chinese Americans.
The engagement between the president and the Chinese leader may have tested a decades-old U.S. assurance to Taiwan not to consult Beijing on the topic.
Having fought the Trump administration to a draw, China’s Xi Jinping is proposing “constructive strategic stability,” aimed at drawing lines he thinks the U.S. should not cross.
There was no major breakthrough in Beijing, but China pulled out all the stops for President Trump, with extravagant ceremonies and a state banquet.
President Trump is returning home from Beijing after a two-day summit that achieved a few deals but left investors and analysts underwhelmed.
Watch an exchange between the two men in which the Chinese leader sought to signal exclusivity and name-dropped Russia’s president.
A few seconds of selfie awkwardness between Elon Musk and Lei Jun, a prominent Chinese entrepreneur, has spread like wildfire on China’s social media.
After several years of dismissing A.I. safety as doomer fear-mongering, parts of the Trump administration now seem ready to support regulation.
We wrap up President Trump’s visit to China.
President Trump and China’s leader, Xi Jinping, emphasized stability but announced no major breakthroughs on points of contention like trade, Taiwan and the war in Iran.
The president left Beijing following a summit with China, during which the two countries sought to stabilize their economic and political relations.
There has been rampant speculation online about whether the Chinese government changed the transliteration of Marco Rubio’s name to overlook sanctions. But that theory is wrong.
Intel, along with Taiwan and South Korea, are the latest winners, our columnist says. True diversification is hard to find.
The U.S. blockade has intercepted dozens of vessels since mid-April. But a small number of ships with Iranian cargo are still sailing.
China’s leader, Xi Jinping, gave President Trump a tour of secretive Beijing compound toward the end of their two-day summit.
The deal, if it materializes, would be a major win for Boeing, which has lost ground to Airbus in one of the world’s largest aviation markets.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent did not say when these talks would happen. There are fears in the United States and China about the threats from A.I., but neither side is willing to slow down its development.
China’s leader, Xi Jinping, was meeting with President Trump on Friday at Zhongnanhai, a heavily guarded Beijing compound where top Chinese officials live and work.
As President Trump and China’s leader, Xi Jinping, meet, the United States said China has promised to expand its purchases of farm goods and airplanes.
A pesar de los problemas de China —deflación, despoblación, la burbuja inmobiliaria—, Xi dejó claro que había llegado el momento de que su país actuara como una superpotencia.
China is worried A.I. companions could be a drag on productivity. On “Interesting Times,” Kyle Chan, a foreign policy fellow at the Brookings Institution, tells the Opinion columnist Ross Douthat that the government thinks youth “should be engineering the future and building out the start-ups and the future Chinese versions of SpaceX.”
What if you weren’t worried about A.I. taking your job? That seems to be closer to the reality in China, where keeping pace with the new technology is a much bigger focus than economic disruption. On “Interesting Times,” Kyle Chan, a foreign policy fellow at the Brookings Institution, explains how the countries differ in their anxieties over artificial intelligence.
Los chefs chinos trataron de apelar a las preferencias culinarias de Trump al tiempo que utilizaban ingredientes y técnicas de cocina tradicionales.
Although at odds over issues like trade and Taiwan, the U.S. and Chinese leaders met in Beijing with a show of friendly gestures.
Iranian news agencies said some Chinese ships were being allowed through the strait, following diplomatic outreach to Iran from Beijing.
In contrast to his rhetoric about China at home, President Trump spoke in conciliatory terms with Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader.
El líder chino, Xi Jinping, dijo que las relaciones entre ambos países podrían volverse una “situación extremadamente peligrosa” si Trump hace caso omiso de las exigencias chinas sobre Taiwán.
After months of avoiding confrontation, the Trump administration has taken recent steps to call out China on Iran, artificial intelligence and spying.
A pledge for more Chinese investment could face backlash given longstanding national security concerns in the United States.
Guests included top U.S. and Chinese officials and the chief executives of several major American companies.
Residents in four Chinese cities described a mixture of amusement and anger, blaming U.S. tensions for a slowing economy and rising fuel prices.
President Trump and President Xi Jinping of China emphasized cooperation in their remarks after walking into the Great Hall of the People side by side.
A mixture of Chinese and international dishes were on the menu as Beijing’s chefs sought to appeal to President Trump’s tastes.
President Trump and China’s leader, Xi Jinping, exchanged pleasantries and also tackled areas of contention like Taiwan and trade.
El presidente será recibido con todos los honores, pero la profunda brecha que hay entre Estados Unidos y China será muy difícil de reparar.
During the first round of two days of talks, Xi Jinping issued a stern warning about Taiwan while Trump touted all the top business leaders in his delegation.
Chinese state media is depicting the summit as an opportunity for the United States to accept that the “right way” for the two powers to engage is as equals.
Plus, a surprise reversal in the Murdaugh murder case.
From satellite phone check-ins to a borrowed royal plane, new details show how Taiwan’s leader’s team outwitted China and pulled off an audacious journey to southern Africa.
Mr. Musk is part of a delegation of business leaders to China, where his interests include Tesla’s electric vehicle factory and solar panels.
The difference in perspectives between superpowers is shaping the race for A.I. dominance.
A Sinicized form of the religion has been preserved on the island, where daily life itself now sometimes seems like an exercise in Buddhist practice.
Beijing approved export licenses for hundreds of American slaughterhouses to resume beef shipments, ending a 15-month ban.
President Trump shook hands with President Xi Jinping of China at the start of a two-day summit in Beijing on Thursday. They are expected to discuss trade, Iran and Taiwan.
The Temple of Heaven and Great Hall of the People embody distinct parts of China’s history, which Xi Jinping has sought to underscore while hosting state visits.
La política de Trump hacia China ha debilitado a EE. UU., especialmente en su segundo mandato.
His talks with Xi Jinping in Beijing could decide whether the United States and China maintain their uneasy truce on trade.
China quiere que continúe la tregua comercial con EE. UU. Eso significa que Xi negociará con Trump para que no se impongan más aranceles, ni controles a las exportaciones, ni sanciones a sus empresas.
President Trump brought more than a dozen executives of lead financial and tech companies on his trip to Beijing. Trump is expected to discuss the creation of a board of investment and a board of trade with China.
There are few issues in diplomacy more complicated than the status of the self-governing island, which China claims as its own. It is almost certain to come up when President Trump meets China’s leader.
President Trump’s visit to Beijing comes as relations with China have became more combative.
Past meetings between the presidents of the U.S. and China have involved friendly displays of cultural exchange. Those gestures have largely dried up.
President Xi Jinping of China is buying time for Beijing and may see an opening with a U.S. president weakened by the war in Iran.
The president will get the red carpet treatment, but the deep rift between the U.S. and China will be very hard to repair.
In 2021, the president declared China’s crackdown on Uyghurs a genocide. Now, it rarely surfaces.
Here’s what to know about the biggest sources of tension in U.S.-China relations before the first summit in Beijing in nine years between the nations’ leaders.
In Beijing this week, Mr. Trump should not hand China more victories.
Pekín envió a un vicepresidente de alto rango para dar la bienvenida al presidente Trump. ¿Qué significa esto?
The president’s middle son is said to be joining his father in a “personal capacity” rather than to make business deals.
The effort involves plans to send weapons through other countries in an effort to hide the origins of the shipments.
The balance of power between the United States and China had shifted in Beijing’s favor even before the war in Iran began in February.
As the U.S. tries to rebuild its weapons stockpiles drained in the Iran war, it will need access to rare-earth minerals, an industry China dominates.
Los encuentros con otros líderes mundiales revelan una faceta del dirigente chino que el público rara vez ve, y ofrecen pistas sobre cómo abordará al presidente Trump en Pekín.
Beijing welcomed President Trump with a high-ranking vice president, but the choice of a ceremonial leader suggests China is trading symbolism for substance.
The relationship between the two leaders is marked just as much by mistrust and confrontation as it is by niceties.
President Trump landed in Beijing ahead of a high-stakes, two-day summit with China’s top leader, Xi Jinping. Trade and the war with Iran were expected to be high on the agenda when the two meet.
President Trump arrived in Beijing, ahead of his meeting with President Xi Jinping of China. Among those accompanying Mr. Trump were top administration officials and business leaders.
Electric vehicle sales have soared in Europe and much of the rest of the world, but Americans are still hesitant.
President Trump was greeted by China’s vice president, Han Zheng, and other officials, as well as a military honor guard.
We preview the Trump-Xi summit.
El avance del ejército ruso se ha desacelerado hasta casi detenerse. Mientras tanto, Vladimir Putin parece estar sometido a una presión cada vez mayor.
Here’s what to expect from the summit between President Trump and China’s top leader, Xi Jinping.
People in Beijing shared their views on the relationship between the United States and China as the city prepared for President Trump’s state visit.
While Trump chases quick wins and flashy optics, Xi plays a generational game for global dominance.
The president came into office planning harsher trade moves on China than on the rest of the world. Here’s why he’s had to scale them back.
A central question hanging over the summit this week is whether China will agree to extend a temporary postponement of even tougher rare-earth export controls.
The leaders of both countries are expected to discuss the risks from artificial intelligence, but neither country is willing to be the first to slow down.
As President Trump prepares to meet with Xi Jinping, a trade war that once threatened to freeze commerce between the two countries has given way to an uneasy truce.
Jensen Huang boarded Air Force One in Alaska, joining a delegation of more than a dozen business leaders accompanying President Trump on his trip to Beijing.
The Russian military’s progress has slowed to a crawl and Vladimir Putin appears to be under increasing pressure.
With talks at an impasse, both sides are holding to positions their opponents call unacceptable, while the economic pain caused by the Strait of Hormuz blockade continues to grow.
As President Trump travels to China to meet with President Xi Jinping, our reporter David Sanger looks at how Trump’s rhetoric about China has shifted from his first term.
History shows there is no more productive national asset than freedom.
The war in Iran has cast a shadow of uncertainty on both superpowers, dimming early hopes that they could begin to address the larger issues that have frayed their relationship.
Durante décadas, Estados Unidos representó riqueza, sofisticación tecnológica y confianza institucional para muchos chinos. El volátil segundo mandato del presidente Trump hizo añicos esa imagen.
Defense secretaries have previously traveled with presidents on overseas trips, to provide advice and represent the U.S. military.
La opacidad que rodea al estrecho de Ormuz revela un lado oscuro del transporte marítimo mundial: algunos buques no quieren ser localizados.
The latest artificial intelligence models from Anthropic and OpenAI are extending the United States’ lead over China and intensifying the rivalry between the countries.
There is a shared sense of precarity that lies beneath the envy and distrust.
Beijing has called Taiwan the “core of China’s core interests.” Xi Jinping is likely to focus on getting President Trump to slow approval of more weapons for the self-governing island.
Before this week’s U.S.-Chinese summit, Beijing reached a milestone in its quest for technological self-sufficiency.
For decades, many Chinese viewed the United States with a mix of admiration, envy and resentment. President Trump’s volatile second term shattered that image.
Eileen Wang, who resigned Monday as the mayor of Arcadia, Calif., published propaganda on a purported news site under direction from Chinese officials, prosecutors said.
The murkiness in the Strait of Hormuz reveals a darker side of global shipping: Some vessels don’t want to be found.
President Trump said the fragile cease-fire was on “life support,” and India’s leader urged residents to cut back on purchases and travel.
Beijing has hacked America, but we have all the tools we need to fight back.
A las naciones asiáticas les preocupa que el presidente de EE. UU. pueda sacrificar compromisos de seguridad por mejores condiciones económicas con China.
As the government has been devising plans to keep the dollar dominant, China has been making its own moves to increase global influence of the renminbi.
Chinese policymakers and the public have expressed optimism about the technology, even as many in the West worry about its effects.
Se espera que la guerra en Irán, el comercio, la inteligencia artificial y Taiwán estén en el orden del día. Pero las expectativas son moderadas.
A group of civilians in Taiwan are stepping up defense training amid rising tensions with China. Beijing’s claim to the island is expected to be discussed by China’s leader, Xi Jinping, and President Trump this week.
Asian nations worry that the president might trade security commitments for better economic terms with China during his planned meeting with Xi Jinping this week.
EE. UU. ha presionado a Argentina y Chile para que revisen dos proyectos de telescopios chinos en los desiertos andinos. A los astrónomos les preocupa que esto suponga un revés para la investigación.
The U.S. has pressed Argentina and Chile to review two Chinese telescope projects in the Andean deserts. Astronomers are worried about setbacks to research.
We are entering a more perilous era where China no longer sees U.S. strength as something to fear.
How the economic shock waves of Trump’s Iran war will be felt globally.
A staff member on the House China Committee was promised $10,000 for U.S. policy insights, on issues like Venezuela and rare-earth minerals.
The country’s exports surged and its trade surplus with the United States widened ahead of President Trump’s scheduled visit next week to Beijing.
The war in Iran, trade, artificial intelligence and Taiwan are expected to be on the agenda. But expectations are modest.
Xi Jinping spent 13 years building a military to rival that of the United States. But the stronger the Chinese forces grew, the less he trusted the generals he had handpicked to run them.
The new measures are focused on Chinese companies that supply Iran’s military with materials to make drones.
For the president, a major legal defeat could undercut his leverage as he prepares to head to Beijing next week for high-stakes trade negotiations.
The men were arrested in 2024, accused of surveilling dissidents from Hong Kong in Britain. The case sent a chill through pro-democracy protesters who have fled the territory.
With time running out, Taiwanese lawmakers approved funds for buying U.S. weapons, fearing they could lose support if they didn’t act now.
Pekín dependía del líder saliente de Hungría, Viktor Orbán, para afianzarse en Europa. Una gigantesca fábrica de baterías resultó ser un paso demasiado audaz.
Chinese automakers do not belong on American soil.
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.
A report by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board offers new details about the China Eastern Airlines crash in 2022, which killed all 132 people on board.
Gen. Wei Fenghe and Gen. Li Shangfu are likely to spend the rest of their lives in prison after receiving suspended death sentences.
The war in Iran has left China’s neighbors appealing for help, handing Beijing the kind of sway it has long sought.
El presidente de Estados Unidos parece estar buscando una solución infalible para poner fin a la guerra, pero podría no existir ninguna.
A Bristol Myers Squibb plant that makes cancer drugs was the only manufacturer in the U.S. recognized for innovation by the World Economic Forum this year.
Lu Jianwang, a U.S. citizen, is accused of working on behalf of the Chinese government to target dissidents. A co-defendant has pleaded guilty.
El apogeo de los dramas generados por IA ha provocado protestas. Los actores afirman que les quita oportunidades y algunos videos usan imágenes de celebridades sin autorización.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is attempting to raise Japan’s profile at a time when China’s clout is rising and doubts about the United States are spreading.
A new level of global disorder will face the American and Chinese presidents at their summit. Like Mao and Nixon, they face a common threat.
The president seems to be searching for a silver bullet to end the war. There might not be one.
Ford Motor has written off $20 billion in electric vehicle investments but says it is forging ahead with an electric pickup that will sell for $30,000 next year.
Dozens more were injured in the explosion, which appeared to be one of the country’s deadliest in recent years.
An industrial policy of subsidies and import restrictions laid the foundations for China to become almost as dominant in wind turbines as in solar panels.
China told its independent refineries to disregard U.S. sanctions over their purchases of Iranian crude.
Having gotten into trouble for making jokes critical of the Chinese government, the standup comic Chizi now lives in self-imposed exile. He’s finding that freedom imposes its own constraints.
With President Trump’s visit to Beijing looming, China is pushing Iran to negotiate even as its companies export material that could be used by Iran’s military.
China made the inner workings of the A.I. model open to all, and that’s starting to look like a soft-power win.