China

HONG KONG (AP) — The Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek has rattled markets with claims that its latest AI model, R1, performs on a par with those of OpenAI, despite using less advanced computer chips and consuming less energy. DeepSeek’s... Read More

WASHINGTON — Social media giant TikTok shut down for only hours Sunday after losing in a Supreme Court judgment but restored service soon after with help from newly inaugurated President Donald Trump. Congress wanted the short-form video app to halt... Read More

WASHINGTON — Eleven months after the National Zoo sent its three giant pandas back to China, a new pair of the popular bears are about to wing their way to Washington, D.C. “It's official,” First Lady Dr. Jill Biden declared... Read More

LONDON (AP) — Scientists searching for the origins of COVID-19 have zeroed in on a short list of animals that possibly helped spread it to people, an effort they hope could allow them to trace the outbreak back to its source. Researchers... Read More

WASHINGTON — TikTok argued Monday in federal court in Washington, D.C., that a law requiring it to divest from its Chinese parent company is unconstitutional. Congress approved a law in April that says TikTok must divest from Chinese government-controlled ByteDance... Read More

NEW YORK — A former deputy chief of staff to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul was arrested Tuesday on charges of secretly acting as a Chinese government agent. Linda Sun is accused in an indictment filed in Brooklyn on Tuesday... Read More

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden feted his Japanese counterpart Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during the latter’s state visit here on Wednesday, while also announcing a series of moves intended to deepen cooperation between the two nations on several fronts. “The... Read More

WASHINGTON — A congressional panel juggled competing interests Thursday of trying to lead the world in industrial development without having the new technologies fall into the hands of foreign militaries that might want to harm the United States. More than... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Wednesday passed a bill that would lead to a nationwide ban of the popular video app TikTok if its China-based owner doesn't sell, as lawmakers acted on concerns that the company's current ownership structure is a national... Read More

WASHINGTON — Defense analysts repeated warnings Tuesday about a dangerous world the United States cannot afford to ignore in a second Senate hearing this week leading to a vote on an annual military budget. Russia is trying to expand its... Read More

WASHINGTON — New scientific discoveries mean the future is bright for biotechnology but laced with many dangers in the competition with China, according to expert witnesses at a congressional hearing Wednesday. China’s military dominance of its industries means its biotechnology... Read More

WASHINGTON — The United States saw an “unprecedented wave” of solar panels being imported from Southeast Asia last year, according to a new analysis by S&P Global, the financial information and analytics firm.  Relying on data reported to the U.S.... Read More

WASHINGTON — Defense policy analysts described data vulnerabilities for a congressional panel Thursday they said China could exploit to shut down broad segments of U.S. infrastructure. They said China’s lead in manufacturing high-tech equipment has exposed the United States to... Read More

SAN FRANCISCO — President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping have agreed to ramp up renewable energy development over the next seven years in order to speed its replacement of “coal, oil and gas generation.” The announcement of the deal... Read More

WASHINGTON — Cybersecurity experts urged a congressional panel Thursday to act quickly to keep pace with threats posed by China’s development of artificial intelligence. The alternative is a U.S. military, business community and technology sector that fall far behind China’s... Read More

WASHINGTON — It is the end of an era at the Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. By Dec. 7, Tian Tian and Mei Xiang, the giant pandas who have lived at the conservation park since 2000, and their... Read More

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden signed an executive order Wednesday restricting American investments and exports of expertise in high-tech technologies China is developing that could be used for its military modernization. The order targets investment in semiconductors and microelectronics, quantum... Read More

WASHINGTON — Historic steps are happening this week in the Indo-Pacific as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will tag-team meetings around the region, in part to counter China's growing influence. Blinken will be... Read More

WASHINGTON — As Americans, “the West” has often played a role in our history and national psyche. “Go West, young man,” the newspaper editor Horace Greeley wrote in the New York Daily Tribune on July 13, 1865. Though he may... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department filed criminal charges Friday against four Chinese companies and eight individuals alleging they illegally trafficked in raw materials used to make fentanyl. The indictments mark the first time the United States has sought to prosecute... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Wilson Center on Monday played host to Bertelsmann Foundation filmmaker Samuel George for a screening of his new documentary, “Tinderbox, Belt and Road — China in the Balkans.”  The film is a deep dive into how China’s... Read More

WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence officials updated a congressional committee Tuesday on what they called a growing espionage campaign by China against the United States. In recent months, it has included a spy balloon traversing the United States for about a... Read More

WASHINGTON — The chief executive of social media app and website TikTok endured five hours of withering accusations in Congress Thursday that his company acted as the alter ego of the Chinese government and failed to protect children from harmful... Read More

WASHINGTON — A Securities and Exchange Commission investigation of a Chinese cyberattack is being opposed by some of Washington, D.C.’s biggest law firms. The SEC says it is trying to investigate the extent of 2020 cyberattacks in the United States,... Read More

MUNICH (AP) — The top diplomats from the United States and China met on Saturday in the first high-level contact between their countries since the U.S. shot down an alleged Chinese spy balloon two weeks ago, with Secretary of State... Read More

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Thursday that the government doesn’t know what the three unidentified objects shot down by the U.S. military over the weekend were, but assured the American people there’s no evidence of “a sudden increase in... Read More

WASHINGTON — A congressional financial committee on Tuesday started talking about how to improve economic competitiveness with China but quickly shifted to join outcries against the spy balloon that traversed the United States last week. The balloon served as an... Read More

BEIJING (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken has postponed a planned high-stakes weekend diplomatic trip to China as the Biden administration weighs a broader response to the discovery of a high-altitude Chinese balloon flying over sensitive sites in the... Read More

WASHINGTON — There is little hope for an improvement in relations between the U.S. and China even as Secretary of State Antony Blinken plans his visit to Beijing this weekend. Top experts on China from the D.C.-based think tank Center... Read More

WASHINGTON — House Republicans are expected to approve a measure Thursday that would prohibit sales of oil from the United States’ strategic petroleum reserve to the People’s Republic of China. But Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., the ranking member of... Read More