Both major US presidential candidates fundamentally agree on international trade objectives, former American trade officials said on Thursday, but look for more threats, posturing and volatile tariff barriers under a Donald Trump 2.0 administration, particularly against China. Since then, campaigning has cast international trade in decidedly domestic terms, with Trump threatening to impose up to…
A California pastor has returned home after spending nearly two decades imprisoned in China. David Lin, aged 68, was released and is now reunited with his family in the United States, the State Department confirmed Monday. Lin, who frequently traveled to China in the 1990s to spread the Christian gospel, was detained in 2006 while…
China has proposed guidelines requiring labelling and identification of content generated by artificial intelligence (AI) as the technology poses new challenges to national security and the public interest. The draft regulations, now open for public consultation, stipulate clear requirements for the labelling of AI-generated content during production, display and distribution. Online content providers would be…
Hong Kong’s reputation as a top-tier global financial hub has taken another hit. A recent US advisory is urging American companies operating there to consider the legal and regulatory risks they may face, including possible sanctions violations. Doing business in the city, the alert argues, is the same as operating on the mainland, because of…
The end of a decade-long partnership between a leading public research university in the United States and China’s Tianjin University was a “direct consequence” of a US strategy to decouple from China in hi-tech fields, and a worrying sign of dwindling academic exchanges between the two countries, analyst have warned. The Georgia Institute of Technology…
The Netherlands plans to limit ASML Holding NV’s ability to repair and maintain its semiconductor equipment in China, a potentially painful blow to Beijing’s efforts to develop a world-class chip industry. The government of Prime Minister Dick Schoof will likely not renew certain ASML licenses to service and provide spare parts in China when they…