KYIV, Ukraine — The Biden Administration is determined in its final months to help ensure that Ukraine can keep fighting off Russia’s full-scale invasion next year, sending it as much aid as possible so that it might hold Russian forces at bay and possess a strong hand in any potential peace negotiations, U.S. Secretary of…
Michael McCaul, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, urged US Commerce Department agents to visit SMIC’s facilities and check whether the company is illegally producing chips for Huawei Technologies, the sanctioned telecommunications equipment company seen as a national champion within China’s chip industry. In a November 4 letter seen by Reuters, McCaul described what…
China will continue to dominate the global clean energy market with its exports of solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, and electric vehicles (EVs) on track to triple in the coming decade, according to an analysis published this week by the International Energy Agency (IEA). The country’s clean technology exports are expected to exceed US$340 billion…
The Biden administration finalised restrictions on investments by US individuals and companies into advanced technology in China, including semiconductors, quantum computing and artificial intelligence. The rules, which come after more than a year of deliberation, ban some investments into those industries and require the US government to be notified about others. The goal is to…
The Biden administration said on Monday it is finalizing rules that will limit U.S. investments in artificial intelligence and other technology sectors in China that could threaten U.S. national security. The rules, which were proposed in June by the U.S. Treasury, were directed by an executive order signed by President Joe Biden in August 2023…
Observers also expect Beijing will place greater emphasis on self-reliance in artificial intelligence (AI) in response to potentially increasing pressure from Washington and its allies, signalled by the White House’s new directive on the technology. The Biden administration outlined the nation’s “first-ever” strategy for harnessing powerful AI in United States military and intelligence agencies while…
Former US President Donald Trump criticized the Biden administration and Democratic presidential candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris, for failing to prevent the ongoing wars in Ukraine and the Middle East during an interview with Al Arabiya News on Sunday. “If I were president, that war would have never started. We wouldn’t have had October…
A Gaza ceasefire is difficult to achieve, US President Joe Biden reporters as he dispatched his Secretary of State Antony Blinken to the region this week to begin discussions about the new geopolitical reality that exists in the aftermath of the IDF’s assassination of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar last week. Biden told reporters in…
Key US lawmakers are pressing the Biden administration to block Huawei Technologies suppliers from buying American chipmaking gear, escalating efforts to prevent the sanctioned Chinese telecoms giant from making progress on semiconductor manufacturing. The top Republican and Democrat on the House China Select Committee outlined their concerns in a letter Wednesday to Commerce Secretary Gina…
Three Republican attorneys general argued in a federal courtroom in North Dakota on Tuesday that a federal rule allowing some undocumented immigrants to receive subsidized health insurance should be stopped – or at the very least, delayed. The attorneys general for Kansas, North Dakota and South Dakota led the hearing on behalf of 19 states…