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Monday 5 October 2026
China's ASML DUV stockpile spurs calls to close export-control loophole
Chinese semiconductor manufacturers have stockpiled hundreds of immersion deep ultraviolet (DUV) lithography systems worth billions of dollars in recent years, prompting a Washington...
Monday 5 October 2026
Bessent expects US-China AI incident channel as Washington leans on voluntary oversight
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Washington and Beijing are likely to agree on a way to alert each other when artificial intelligence goes wrong, signaling that AI safety is...
Monday 5 October 2026
US-China truce extension lifts 4Q freight rates, tightens capacity
After US President Donald Trump met Chinese President Xi Jinping, the two sides agreed to extend their trade truce, a move the market read positively. Industry participants expect...
Friday 2 October 2026
China financing chain linked to Nvidia Blackwell chips, 32 Asus servers exposed
A China-backed leasing firm appears to have helped Chinese companies buy restricted Nvidia Blackwell platform chips through financial leasing, according to a recent report. The transactions...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Trump-Xi talks leave chip policies unchanged; US guards AI advantage while China pursues self-reliance
Following the summit between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, market observers broadly agreed that the talks yielded few surprises. The meeting produced...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
US-China trade truce extension draws orders back to China, threatening Taiwanese booking volumes
Following US President Donald Trump's visit to China for a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping from May 13 to 15, 2026, President Xi accepted an invitation to make a state visit...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Chinese EV tech is set to challenge US market barriers over time
The Washington summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping did not produce the speculated auto deal that would have allowed Chinese automakers to manufacture vehicles in the US. While...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Trump-Xi meeting, upcoming APEC summit put US-China-Russia diplomacy in focus
With the conclusion of the summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump, held in Washington, DC, from September 23 to 25, attention has turned to how changes...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Rare earths loom over US-China trade truce
The US-China trade truce was extended after last week's Trump-Xi summit, but China's dominance of rare-earth supply chains remains a key pressure point as Washington tries to stabilize...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
Trump-Xi state dinner puts tech titans at the head table, spotlighting Taiwan's quiet supply chain clout

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, arrived at the White House on the evening of September 24 US time to attend...

Saturday 26 September 2026
US and Chinese accounts of Xi's Washington visit agree on the framework, not the fine print
Chinese President Xi Jinping's September 23-25 state visit to Washington ended without a joint statement, leaving the White House fact sheet and Beijing's official readouts as the...
Saturday 26 September 2026
Trump-Xi summit yields few concessions but keeps the rivals talking
Neither Washington nor Beijing gave much ground during Chinese President Xi Jinping's September 23-25 state visit, and analysts in both countries largely agree. The summit did deliver...
Thursday 24 September 2026
Xi-Trump summit masks AI rift as Chinese AI leaders stay away
Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to make his first state visit to the US since 2015, with the Trump administration rolling out high-level welcoming ceremonies, a state dinner and...
Thursday 24 September 2026
Trump-Xi pre-summit watch: H20 setbacks and Ascend gains reshape China's Nvidia calculus
Ahead of the Trump-Xi summit, the key semiconductor question is no longer simply how much Nvidia hardware Washington will allow China to buy.
Thursday 24 September 2026
Trump-Xi pre-summit watch: China charts a sovereignty-first path for frontier AI
When Donald Trump and Xi Jinping discuss artificial intelligence, the deeper divide may not be over whether AI needs rules, but over what those rules are designed to protect.