TikTok calls report that it is cloning its recommendation algorithm for US users to prepare for a potential divestment ‘misleading’ and ‘inaccurate’.

Singapore meeting had a ‘positive effect’ on promoting understanding, says Chinese defence ministry spokesman.

Trade between China and Russia surged to a record US$240 billion in 2023, an increase of more than 64 per cent since 2021, before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The impact of across-the-board trade actions would have ‘significant collateral damage on the US economy’, Washington-based organisation says

ByteDance has called on Chinese social media not to spread such misinformation after declaring the report as untrue.

Raymond Greene, an envoy who has criticised Beijing’s military operations in the Indo-Pacific, will succeed Sandra Oudkirk as head of the American Institute in Taiwan.

Clear that Beijing has ‘picked sides’ by supplying Moscow dual-use components for conflict, says Washington’s envoy to transatlantic security alliance.

Apart from domestic semiconductor manufacturers, the third phase of China’s ‘Big Fund’ is expected to support chip equipment and material suppliers, analysts said.

Ma will meet US deputy secretary of state Kurt Campbell and representatives of ‘various sectors’ during four-day trip, foreign ministry says.

Main causes for growing Sino-Russian relationship are Moscow’s decision to invade Ukraine and ‘China’s choice to enable Putin’s war’, official adds.

A US appeal court set a fast-track schedule to consider the legal challenges to a new law requiring China-based ByteDance to divest TikTok’s US assets by January 19 or face a ban.

Amid a looming US election, Jia Qingguo says tariffs against Chinese goods are more ‘political’, but tougher policies could be imposed under Donald Trump.

The third phase of the China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund has 19 equity investors, led by the Ministry of Finance and the country’s major state-owned banks.

Hua Chunying, who has been a foreign ministry spokeswoman since 2012, is the youngest of the five vice-foreign ministers and the only woman.

The meeting, to be held during the Shangri-La Dialogue next week, will be the first between Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin and Admiral Dong Jun since they spoke on the phone in April.

The discussions, which will take place in California, will concentrate on industrial decarbonisation, carbon markets and clean energy deployment.

The lay-offs, which were announced internally earlier this week, are expected to affect TikTok’s operations and marketing departments.

The UAVs are part of Replicator initiative focused on overcoming the advantages of the People’s Liberation Army.

The move comes as the Chinese owned short video app faces a US divest-or-ban ultimatum over concerns it could be used to influence Americans.

Make ‘knowledge-intensive sectors’ a focal point and remove import taxes that offer no strategic value and hit working Americans hard, economist says.

Janet Yellen expected to restate American call for firms and financial institutions in China and elsewhere to ‘cease’ backing Moscow’s defence complex.

America’s top diplomat describes Beijing as seeking ‘better relations with Europe’ while fuelling its ‘greatest security threat’ since the Cold War.

Washington is concerned that Chinese government support is leading to more production capacity than global markets can absorb, driving cheap exports and stifling growth elsewhere.

Commentary from China’s top economic planner says Washington’s anti-globalisation, decoupling and disconnection efforts have ‘inevitably’ hurt US inflation.

North Korea and Russia have exploited the US-China schism to take actions that undermined the global order, Jia Qingguo of Peking University says at Hong Kong University.

The dispatch of such a specialised China watcher to the embassy is part of the Biden administration’s efforts to reinforce intelligence gathering.