• US-China 'on more stable footing': Yellen says

    United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has told Chinese Premier Li Qiang that the ability to have difficult conversations has put the two economic superpowers on a more stable footing. At the start of a bilateral meeting in Beijing on Sunday, Yellen said that the two countries had a duty to responsibly manage a complex […]

  • US says China is funding America’s fentanyl crisis

    A congressional report says Chinese firms are subsidized via tax rebates to export fentanyl raw materials

  • China supporting Russia in massive military expansion, US says

    Beijing helping with drone production, space-based capabilities and ballistic missile productionChina is helping Russia undertake its biggest military expansion since Soviet times, ramping up sales of machine tools, microelectronics and other technology that Moscow is using to produce missiles, tanks, aircraft and other weaponry for its war against Ukraine, according to a US assessment.US officials are hoping the release of the intelligence will encourage European allies to press China, as the...

  • US Will Not Accept Another "China Shock", Yellen Says

    US Will Not Accept Another "China Shock", Yellen Says By Dorothy Li of The Epoch Times China commonly floods global markets with cheap products, and the United States will not allow this to threaten U.S. jobs, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on April 8 as she concluded a return visit to China. After Bejing’s acceptance into the World Trade Organization, massive quantities of low-priced products exported from China killed about 2 million jobs in the United States and led to...

  • US, China Have Stabilized Relations Over Past Year, Yellen Says

    US and China have put their bilateral relationship on a “more stable

  • Microsoft says China using AI to sow division in US

    San Francisco, Apr 05, 2024 -China is ramping up use of AI-generated content and fake social media accounts to inflame division in the United States and elsewhere, according to the latest report from Microsoft's threat center.Beijing has doubled down on targets and increased sophistication of its influence operations, Microsoft threat analysis center general manager Clint Watts said in a report released late Thursday. China is using fake social media accounts to poll voters on what divides...

  • Microsoft Says China Using AI To Sow Division In US

    China is ramping up use of AI-generated content and fake social media accounts to inflame division in the United States and elsewhere, according to the latest report from Microsoft's threat center.Beijing has "doubled down" on targets and increased sophistication of its influence operations, Microsoft threat analysis center general manager Clint Watts said in a report released late Thursday."China is using fake social media accounts to poll voters on what divides them most to sow division and...

  • Ex-TikTok Employee Says He Was Ordered To Send US Data to China

    A former senior employee at TikTok said he was ordered to send American user data to its Beijing-based parent company ByteDance, contradicting TikTok’s public claims of operating independently from China, according to a Fortune report published Monday.

  • China sanctions U.S. defense firms over Taiwan arms sales

    BEIJING >> China on Thursday announced rare sanctions against two U.S. defense companies over what it called their support for arms sales to Taiwan, the self-governing island democracy Beijing claims as its own territory to be recovered by force if necessary.

  • Yellen Says US-China Relationship On ‘More Stable Footing’ But More Can Be Done

    U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen sent a message of mutual cooperation at a meeting Sunday with Chinese Premier Li Qiang, highlighting the improvement in relations since her visit to China last year while recognizing that major differences remain. After focusing on trade and economic issues for the first two days of her visit, Yellen turned […]

  • Tesla's global job cuts hit China sales team, sources say

    Tesla's global job cuts are hitting China, the automaker's biggest market after the United States, affecting staff in teams including sales, two sources briefed on the matter said. CEO Elon Musk on Monday told staff in an internal memo seen by Reuters that the company is laying off more than 10% of its global workforce, as it grapples with falling sales and an intensifying price war for electric vehicles. The two sources said some staff in Tesla's China sales team were being notified, with one...

  • Tesla's global job cuts hit China sales team, sources say

    Tesla's global job cuts are hitting China, the automaker's biggest market after the United States, affecting staff in teams including sales, two sources briefed on the matter said. CEO Elon Musk on Monday told staff in an internal memo seen by Reuters that the company is laying off more than 10% of its global workforce, as it grapples with falling sales and an intensifying price war for electric vehicles. The two sources said some staff in Tesla's China sales team were being notified, with one...