Major US airlines are opposing Air China’s request for two additional roundtrip flights between Beijing and New York…
AeroTime•Stephen Pope21 Sept
Around 150 aircraft are already moving through the process, four months after Beijing agreed to acquire 200 Boeing jets from the United States
Air Data News•Ricardo Meier21 Sept
Washington and Beijing have grown ever more linked in the AI boom, making hardware exports and technological restrictions hefty bargaining chips in negotiations.
From AI governance to trade and economic headwinds in Beijing, our experts break down the key questions shaping the summit—and what could come next.
Atlantic Council•Beth Baltzan, Jeremy Mark, Stephen P. Vaughn, Jessie Yin21 Sept
Saudi Arabia's central bank dropped out of China's mBridge digital payment platform last year.
Back at the start of the U.S.’s ‘Operation Epic Fury’, OilPrice.com predicted three courses of action that Iran would take as it moved through the conflict escalation gears. First, most obviously, although apparently not to President Donald Trump’s team, was to close the Strait of Hormuz to cause oil, liquefied natural gas (LNG) and refined products prices to soar -- check. Second, was to launch attacks on Saudi Arabian oil infrastructure via the Tehran-backed Yemeni Houthis to further inflate energy prices and undermine…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday the U.S. is proposing a notification system between Washington and Beijing on AI amid growing concerns about the technology’s risks to humanity. The system, called the “U.S.-China AI dialogue,” would create a mechanism for the two superpowers to communicate when there are incidents that rise to “a national security…
The Hill•Julia Shapero21 Sept
Washington and Beijing discuss AI hotline idea amid escalating competition and restrictions on advanced technologies.
Al Jazeera21 Sept
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday said recent talks with Chinese officials went well, a few days before President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet later this week. “We just had a very successful engagement with the Chinese on trade — the — and AI, completing where we left off in Beijing — we…
The Hill•Tara Suter21 Sept
China's Xi Jinping is traveling to Washington this week. Regardless of what comes from talks between him and Donald Trump, Europeans will likely remain stuck between erratic US trade policy and Beijing's export machine.
Deutsche Welle21 Sept
Access to American markets must come with tough, but fair, questions.
The Hill•Adonis Hoffman, opinion contributor21 Sept
Brazil’s far-right presidential hopeful wants to step up ties with Washington. But like his father, he would struggle to spurn Beijing.
Foreign Policy•Catherine Osborn21 SeptIvan Kanapathy, a longtime China hawk, is a top Asia adviser at the National Security Council at a time when the Trump administration has been particularly conciliatory with Beijing.
Soybeans are the notable exception, revealing Beijing’s selective approach to fulfilling trade commitments ahead of the summit between President Trump and Xi Jinping.
The New York Times•Sui-Lee Wee21 Sept
The Beijing-based artist’s commission for the New York museum were unveiled Thursday.
ARTnews•Maximilíano Durón21 Sept
August exports down 20% from July as Washington presses Beijing over supplies of critical minerals
Air China launches daily Milan Malpensa–Beijing Daxing flights with an Airbus A330-300, adding its fourth destination from the Italian airport to its network.
As Beijing presses President Trump to freeze a proposed $14 billion weapons sale to the island, Taiwan is trying to show that its security is in U.S. interests.
The New York Times•Chris Buckley and Amy Chang Chien21 Sept
The future of nuclear energy is in China’s hands. While the United States remains the world’s largest producer of nuclear energy, China’s sector is growing at such a rapid clip that it is expected to overtake France as well as the United States to become the world’s leading nuclear power producer within the next decade. In addition to this rapid expansion of traditional nuclear power capacity, Beijing has also quickly become the global leader in a broad and diverse range of advanced nuclear power technologies. “By…
Rafael Moreno, whose company has opened demo plant in Brazil, says market is ‘nervous’ as Trump-Xi summit looms The head of a mining company hoping to supply the EU with rare earths in two years’ time has said it is “paramount” to end China’s stranglehold on the supply of the raw materials used in everything from cars to wind turbines and military jets. As Donald Trump and China’s president, Xi Jinping, prepare to meet on Thursday in their second summit of the year, Rafael Moreno said it was also “imperative” that they do a deal for Beijing to ease up, once again, on its threat to ban exports of rare earths. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Lisa O’Carroll Senior correspondent20 Sept