WASHINGTON — Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh instructed his Cabinet to prepare for a possible global trade war after U.S. President Donald Trump imposed tariffs of 10% on all Chinese products. “Prepare for the possibility of a world trade war this year,” the prime minister said at a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, according to…
HONG KONG — China and Pakistan will upgrade and reconstruct Pakistan’s railway network and further develop its Gwadar port, while Chinese companies can invest in the South Asian nation’s offshore oil and gas developments, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday. The comments came as Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari visits China from Feb….
On January 20, the release of China’s newest AI model, DeepSeek R1, sent the markets and tech world into a spiral. This was primarily because its reasoning model performs on par with leading U.S. firm OpenAI’s similar o1 model, but was trained at a fraction of the cost. Influential tech investor Marc Andreessen called the…
Reports of China’s development of new large language models (LLMs) shocked the U.S. technology sector, raising questions over how the U.S. can avoid ceding ground to a strategic competitor in the critical field of artificial intelligence (AI). While much attention has been given to how many and what type of semiconductors DeepSeek and other AI…
U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are set soon to hold a high-stakes phone call on the tit-for-tat tariffs each has imposed on the other country’s exports. Trump’s new 10% tariff on Chinese goods took effect at midnight Monday, with China quickly announcing it would impose 15% tariffs on U.S. coal and…
Taipei, Taiwan — U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to impose 10% tariffs on Chinese goods has been met with mixed reactions from Beijing, with the Chinese government threatening to roll out countermeasures and some Chinese businesses expressing concerns about potential disruption to their exports to the U.S. market. While the Chinese Ministry of Commerce vowed…
MANILA — Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. offered on Thursday to remove a U.S. missile system from the Philippines if China halts what he called its “aggressive and coercive behavior” in the disputed South China Sea. The U.S. Army installed the Typhon mid-range missile system in the northern Philippines in April last year to support…
TAIPEI, TAIWAN — The Lunar New Year, also called the Chinese New Year or the Spring Festival in China, is traditionally celebrated with tables piled with food and red envelopes filled with cash for children. In past years, smoke from outdoor fire pits filled the air throughout the morning and afternoon, as people burned paper…
WASHINGTON — After President Donald Trump’s election, he signed executive orders withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization and the Paris Climate Agreement. In response, China positioned itself as a global leader in addressing climate change and supporting the WHO. Experts believe China could step into the leadership void left by the U.S., particularly…
TAIPEI, TAIWAN — As pet parents in China usher in the Year of the Snake and host Lunar New Year’s Eve dinners with their loved ones, some are also making sure that their fur babies, or “mao hai zi,” are not left out. Over the past month, a growing number of consumers have been ordering…