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This week, President Donald Trump announced that he would allow US chipmaker Nvidia to sell its advanced H200 chips to China, describing the move as overturning a failed Biden administration policy that he says “slowed innovation and hurt the American worker.” He continued, “That era is over.” The first notable thing about the decision is that it’s a clear victory …

OPINION – Offshoring and outsourcing antibiotic production to China and India is putting America’s access to lifesaving medicines at risk. It’s time to implement antibiotic security measures before a supply crisis occurs. The first step is rebuilding onshore fermentation manufacturing capacity. Antibiotics have significantly improved life expectancy and overall public health for over 80 years. Penicillin alone has saved approximately …

China’s flagship sovereign wealth fund has revealed that it opened a representative office in London shortly after Donald Trump’s victory in last year’s US presidential election, a move made amid increased scrutiny of Chinese investments in the United States. The London office was officially registered in December 2024, with the mission of “advancing the company’s overseas investment business” and “promoting …

Asian equities fell on Wednesday as investors grew increasingly cautious ahead of a key U.S. Federal Reserve interest-rate decision, while signs of persistent deflation in China further dampened regional sentiment. Markets across the region tracked a softer lead from Wall Street, where U.S. stocks edged lower overnight on jitters that the Fed could accompany an expected 25-basis-point rate cut with …

چین نے پاکستان اور افغانستان پر زور دیا ہے کہ وہ بات چیت اور مشاورت کے ذریعے اختلافات کو حل کریں اور صورتحال کو کشیدہ ہونے سے بچائیں۔ عالمی میڈیا کے مطابق چینی وزارتِ خارجہ کے ترجمان گو جیاؤکن کا کہنا تھا کہ دونوں ممالک خطے میں امن و استحکام برقرار رکھنے کے لیے مشترکہ کوششیں کریں۔ بیجنگ میں پریس …

Three days after the US government codified its contempt for EU institutions in a startling new national security policy, the bloc’s leaders finally broke their silence on Monday, with European Council President Antonio Costa lambasting Washington’s “threat to interfere in Europe’s political life”. “The United States no longer believes in multilateralism, nor even in a rules-based international order. They speak …

Taiwan’s ban on mainland Chinese social media app RedNote has sparked fierce pushback on the island, making the platform a top download as users rush to access it through workarounds. The island’s interior ministry announced on Thursday it had ordered local telecoms and internet providers to block access to the app, also known as Xiaohongshu, for one year over “rising …

The US Congress is readying votes on a sprawling bill that would restrict US outbound investment to China in sensitive sectors as well as federal government contracting with Chinese biotechnology companies, two controversial measures that were left out of similar legislation last year. The provisions were included in a compromise defence bill released on Sunday after months of negotiation. Votes …

China now has “a world-class Navy,” retired Rear Admiral Mike Studeman, a former Commander of the Office of Naval Intelligence, told The Cipher Brief. “It’s not, ‘Hey, we’re going to achieve this in 2049.’ And it’s just not in the numbers, it’s in the quality. These ships are modern by any standard.” The recently commissioned Fujian is the first Chinese …

Late one night in southern Nepal last month, whispers spread of an unusual wedding taking place. Inside a modest home, an 18-year-old girl was about to be wed to a Chinese national nearly twice her age. The match was illegal. Nepal’s minimum age for marriage is 20, and the bride’s youth alarmed onlookers. Police were called and the ceremony in …