GSK has been operating a strategy of “balancing the West and the East” since the Big Pharma’s eyes were opened to the potential of licensing drugs from China two years ago, according to an executive.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said the United Nations should scrub the World War II-era designation from its Charter. China and Russia have used the term recently to attack Japan.
The New York Times•Javier C. Hernández14h agoA decade ago, Xi Jinping asked if China could master A.I. His push is remaking the economy, challenging the United States and keeping society under control.
The New York Times•Vivian Wang14h ago
Beijing is locking the gates to stop expertise and capital in strategic industries from fleeing. The country accused of industrial-scale intellectual property theft now fears the West will take its own.
Deutsche Welle14h ago
As China's Xi Jinping meets with President Trump at the White House on Thursday. Talks will touch on Iran and how Beijing is circumventing U.S. sanctions.
NPR•Rob Schmitz15h ago
Calls for the U.S. and China to co-operate on creating AI guardrails are ramping up as U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes Chinese President Xi Jinping to Washington.
As global power shifts, how different are these two visions, and does the future belong to just one?
Al Jazeera16h ago
President Donald Trump seeks to rebrand AI ahead of his meeting with China's Xi Jinping, while rejecting a "globalist scheme" to regulate the technology.
From tariffs to rare earths and AI, the agenda for US President Donald Trump's summit with China’s President Xi Jinping in Washington will have an impact on Europe.
Euronews17h agoFrom tariffs to rare earths and AI, the agenda for US President Donald Trump's summit with China’s President Xi Jinping in Washington will have an impact on Europe.
Euronews17h ago
US President Donald Trump is about to roll out the red carpet for China’s president, with the latest meeting between them likely to focus more on pageantry than striking major deals.
The Sydney Morning Herald•Michael Koziol, Lisa Visentin18h agoPresident Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are expected to discuss artificial intelligence and trade when they meet on Thursday.
Xi Jinping will arrive in Washington this week to find a US president wary of jeopardising their détente
Shortage of biggest supertankers has more than doubled rates on key Middle East-China routes since late August
Authorities examine extent of switches made by US company in state-backed data centres
The US relationship is stabilising, but how will Europe face up to Russia and China if President Le Pen is in power? I addressed a group of more than 100 European ambassadors recently on the big challenges facing the continent this year and next. My main point to these senior diplomats was that, perhaps counterintuitively, Europe’s biggest external challenges over the next 12 months will come from Russia and China, rather than the US. Europe’s relationship with Trump’s America remains difficult. The US president has weakened confidence in Nato, raised new transatlantic trade tensions and introduced uncertainty into everything from US support for Ukraine to his territorial designs on Greenland. Yet paradoxically, and notwithstanding Trump’s latest tariff threats over the EU’s outreach to Canada, the transatlantic relationship is becoming the more stable part of Europe’s external environment. Not stable, but more stable. Mujtaba Rahman is the managing director for Europe at Eurasia Group, a political risk research and consulting firm Continue reading...
The Guardian•Mujtaba Rahman19h ago
Fears persist about Trump ‘sucking up’ to Xi on Taiwan, but few concrete outcomes anticipated from US meeting When Xi Jinping, China’s leader, touches down in Maryland on Wednesday, he will step out into the arms – perhaps a hug , if Donald Trump’s wishes come true – of a US president who has shown China more bonhomie than any of his recent predecessors. The meeting between Xi and Trump this week will be the second time that the leaders of the world’s two biggest economies have talked face to face this year. At the previous summit, held in Beijing in May, there was much talk of building a “strategic stability” between the two powers. But there was little by way of concrete outcomes : the countries remain at loggerheads over trade, export controls and geopolitics. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Amy Hawkins, and David Smith in Washington21h ago
Heightened U.S.-China tensions over Taiwan could reshape diplomatic and military strategies, influencing global stability and market dynamics.
CryptoBriefing•Estefano Gomez22h ago