Reporting on China is challenging. The country’s leaders seldom give interviews to Western media and when they do they tend ...

China buys Russian oil and gas at steep discounts while supplying Moscow with machinery and electronics as Western sanctions ...

China's markets have faltered in 2025, reversing a late 2024 rally. Shares in two high-profile tech companies — Tencent and CATL — fell sharply after the Pentagon added them to a blacklist. Tencent ...

Michael Burry of "The Big Short" fame said the US needs to shift away from "power-hungry" chips, but Nvidia has a "death grip ...

Baidu shares soared after the company said its ERNIE AI bot will be free in April. Baidu's move followed China's cost-efficient DeepSeek AI bot, which took the world by storm. Analysts see potential ...

Happy Thanksgiving one and all. To us international folk still on the daily grind, here’s Max Goldbart taking you through another busy week of news and analysis. Read on. And sign up here. Microdramas ...