In the pantheon of global tech gatherings, few have grown as quickly or at the scale of Web Summit. The conference, which began in Dublin in 2009 before moving its annual flagship edition to the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, in 2016, has become a prime fixture of the conference circuit—so much so that conference organizers warned…
The leaders of the United States and China, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, appeared to set their trade war aside at a meeting this week in South Korea. Officials suggest their agreement could evolve into a strategic reset for the countries—though many analysts believe tensions over trade and other issues will persist. Is China deliberately…
U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping used their first meeting since Trump returned to office to agree to a temporary truce on their trade tensions, stopping short of a full agreement but dialing back some of their harshest mutual countermeasures. It leaves the U.S.-China trade relationship only slightly worse than it was…
The tenuous trade truce between Washington and Beijing has collapsed. What lies ahead is less a conventional trade war and more of a sustained struggle in which both powers codify coercion into their economic statecraft and increasingly weaponize interdependence as a source of leverage. In this new, emerging phase, confrontation will no longer be perceived…
China is a dominant player in emerging technologies. It is a renewable energy superpower, controls the global commercial drone market, and has installed more industrial robots than the rest of the world combined. At the same time, it is pouring resources into outcompeting the United States in artificial intelligence. But Beijing is not only interested…
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. Every week, we cover the latest developments in the U.S.-China relationship, among other topics. But this week, we take a step back and discuss a broader trend: artificial intelligence and why it’s become such a fixation for China hawks over other areas of U.S.-China technology competition. Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China…
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping were caught on a hot mic at the recent military parade in Beijing discussing the prospect of human longevity. “People rarely lived to be over 70, but these days, at 70, you are still a child,” Xi remarked, prompting discussion by Putin on how human organs…
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at expanding Chinese influence on the world stage, Belgium pledging to recognize Palestinian statehood, and alleged Russian interference with a European Commission flight. A New, Multipolar World Chinese President Xi Jinping presented his vision of a new world order this week: one where Beijing’s military and diplomatic…
On July 15, five of China’s most prominent private-sector entrepreneurs sat shoulder to shoulder at a press conference in Beijing hosted by the State Council, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) ruling body. Above their heads, a banner enjoined them to “carry forward the entrepreneurial spirit” and to serve as “excellent builders of socialism with Chinese…
Last week, U.S. chip designer Nvidia announced that it would resume sales of one of its best-selling artificial intelligence chips to China after obtaining the go-ahead from the U.S. government. In April, the Trump administration had blocked exports of the chip, known as the H20, but after months of lobbying from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang,…