Dec. 18, 2025, 5:05 a.m. ET When the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition announced recently its high school winners in Paris, the grand prize went to a Chinese team from Shenzhen. Six of the nine runners-up were also from China. Only one American school ‒ Lambert High in suburban Atlanta ‒ made it into the…
Dec. 12, 2025, 11:23 a.m. ET Washington — The nation’s top automotive lobbying group urged lawmakers Thursday to keep Chinese automakers and battery firms out of the United States. “The Alliance for Automotive Innovation urges Congress and the Trump Administration to prevent Chinese government-backed auto and advanced battery manufacturers from gaining entry to manufacture here…
Updated Dec. 10, 2025, 10:59 a.m. ET President Donald Trump and his team of advisers spend all day, every day, seeking adversaries to tangle with, so they can assign blame for any problem in America that Trump cannot or will not fix. The truth is never an obstacle when Team Trump feels an acute need…
Dec. 2, 2025, 1:58 p.m. ET Washington — The United States should quit trying to compete with China on electric vehicles, Republican U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno said Tuesday. “We were ahead of them by a mile, by 10 miles, on the internal combustion engine. They went into EVs, and then they convinced the Western world…
Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth after being stranded for nine days on the Tiangong space station. Their original return vehicle, the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft, was damaged by space debris, rendering it unsafe. The crew used the Shenzhou-21 spacecraft, which had brought their replacements, to land safely in northern China. Three Chinese astronauts have returned to…
Bloomberg’s Ben Westcott reported that “China’s purchases of American soybeans appear to have stalled, less than two weeks after the US touted a wide-ranging trade truce that signaled thawing relations between the world’s two biggest economies.” “After a flurry of orders late last month — which were the first of this season — Chinese imports of…
Three more University of Michigan scholars from China were charged with smuggling biological material into the U.S. and lying to federal agents in the latest expansion of a federal probe that has raised questions about national security and bioterrorism. The scholars are among seven Chinese nationals with ties to UM charged with federal crimes in…
Tennessee soybean farmers are cautiously optimistic that China will begin buying U.S. soybeans again, after President Donald Trump announced cuts to U.S. tariffs on China after meeting with President Xi Jinping Oct. 30. The Trump Administration announced that China has agreed to resume buying American-grown soybeans. Soybeans are the top commodity grown in Tennessee, based…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said immigration enforcement officials “haven’t gone far enough” in deporting people who are in the country without legal authorization, in a wide-ranging interview on “60 Minutes” on CBS. Trump also insisted to Norah O’Donnell that China wouldn’t invade Taiwan while he is president. He said the subject didn’t come up…
Chicago soybean prices reached a 15-month high following news of a trade truce with China. China has agreed to purchase tens of millions of tons of U.S. soybeans over the next few years. The deal could help Chinese demand for U.S. soybeans return to previous levels by the 2026/27 season. Chicago soybeans hit a 15-month…