Beijing’s actions, not US pressure, has led Berlin from ‘partnership and cooperation to more competition’, Thomas Bagger of the German foreign ministry contends.

Federal officials and members of Congress repeatedly raise the need to address the national security risks and unfair trade practices posed by China’s technology sectors.

The male Yun Chuan and female Xin Bao are expected to arrive later this week at the San Diego Zoo, travelling more than 11,000km from a research and conservation facility in Sichuan province.

Chinese officials ‘have indicated so in some of our interactions’, Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell tells Council of Foreign Relations.

India, one expert says, has ‘indicated that it is willing to gradually ramp up pressure on issues like Tibet and Taiwan’.

Washington should ‘have no contact with the Dalai group in any form, and stop sending the wrong signal to the world’, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman says.

Beijing’s position said to have intensified largest armed conflict in Europe since second world war, requiring alliance to ‘impose a cost’.

Legislation meant to bar procurement by Department of Homeland Security advances despite lawmakers admitting a lack of information on suppliers

Stronger legislation would better counter China’s monopoly of battery components amid heated EV race, says American senator.

Bureau tries outreach after criticism of its role in the now-disbanded China Initiative and the programme’s lingering repercussions for people with ties to China.

Founded in 1957, the China Import and Export Fair in Guangzhou has weathered embargoes, trade wars and pandemics, with supporters saying it remains essential.

Poorer-than-expected performance by prime minister’s ruling party unlikely to alter joint initiatives between Washington and New Delhi, analysts say.

Zoo will pay US$1 million a year to a China wildlife group, with aim of raising US$25 million to ‘secure a future’ for the bears in nation’s capital.

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.

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

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.

A project to mine gallium in a national forest would help reduce US reliance on China but it faces local opposition from conservationists.

Eric Garcetti defends India’s role as check against China, pointing out its early TikTok ban and loss of soldiers along the disputed border.

Bilateral working group sessions meant to build on agreements reached last year and restore top-level engagement as pledged at Xi-Biden summit.

American vulnerability to Chinese overcapacity also a concern being tackled, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo tells key House Appropriations committee.

Taipei’s de facto diplomatic envoy to the US under president-elect William Lai Ching-te also says most on the island ‘prefer the status quo’.

US president tries to make case that countries would improve economically if they welcomed immigrants, but some warn that his words are a diplomatic blunder.

House Armed Services Committee hears Washington’s concerns that Moscow plans to arm a satellite with an ‘indiscriminate’ device.

Decision whether to take part in demonstrations fraught with concerns as ‘it is already precarious to be Chinese in the US in these times’, says one.

Since the pandemic, US East Coast ports have invested in expanded container terminals, adopted new technology for inventory management and made other upgrades.

Xiaolei Wu, who was studying jazz at the Berklee College of Music, will be deported after serving his sentence in a US prison, a federal judge orders.

Legislation, packaged with major foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, now heads to President Joe Biden, who has vowed to sign it into law.

Meetings with Foreign Minister Wang Yi expected to cover unfair trade practices and industrial overcapacity in ‘productive and constructive’ trip.

World’s foremost index provider alone channelled US$3.7 billion into entities boosting People’s Liberation Army, says congressional report.