Large chemical plant blast in China kills 5 people
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China has cyber-attacked Czech Republic, government says
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President Donald Trump's administration has ordered U.S. firms that offer software used to design semiconductors to stop selling their services to Chinese groups, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday,
China’s Tianwen-2 mission has launched to explore an asteroid that may be a piece of the moon, as well as an active asteroid that acts like a comet.
A Ukrainian intelligence chief said China is helping to supply Russian military production plants, and that they have data on 20 factories.
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European companies in China have ranked a domestic slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy as a bigger challenge for them than the trade war, underlining the hurdles for Beijing as it negotiates with the US on tariffs.
Indian auto production could grind to a halt within days due to Chinese export restrictions on rare earth magnets, according to company executives and documents from industry groups, which want the government to lobby Beijing to relax the curbs.
Less than 20 cases of the new COVID-19 variant, NB.1.8.1, had been reported in the U.S., as of Tuesday, May 27.
U.S. adversaries condemn Trump's Golden Dome plan, citing risks of space arms race and global instability, while the U.S. defends it as homeland protection.
China's wariness of bitcoin should encourage the U.S. to embrace the world's largest cryptocurrency and build on its strategic advantage in the digital asset, U.S. Vice President JD Vance said on Wednesday.
The economic mood has improved markedly after an earlier slump on trade-war fears, the Conference Board's May survey of consumers showed. The survey's headline index jumped to 98, up from 85.7 a month earlier,