Vietnam, a global export hub, has been attracting global investments thanks to its array of free-trade deals and cheap labour, with the added allure of protection from increasing Sino-US trade friction

The trip is intended by Washington to be a major step toward what President Joe Biden has called a "thaw" in relations between the world's two largest economies

The US banking giant's pledge comes even as most foreign businesses have remained reluctant to commit to growing their China business amid increasing Sino-US tensions

Before travelling to China, US CEOs have particularly been seeking advice about how Beijing's expansion of its counter-espionage law could affect them

"De-dollarisation is evident in FX reserves where [the dollar's] share has declined to a record as share in exports declined but is still emerging in commodities," the US bank noted

New findings show how CEO Changpeng Zhao secretly retained control over Binance's US arm and ensured he could direct the company’s expansion in the American crypto market despite scrutiny from regulators

BRICS foreign ministers have asserted their bloc's ambition to rival Western powers and build up their influence in a multi-polar world

The Japanese conglomerate, whose tech portfolio has slumped in value due to an array of troubled investments, passed the psychological level of 6,000 yen on Friday

The investment, from a British consortium that includes mining giant Glencore, will go into a wind energy-powered industrial park on Sulawesi island

"The process of diversifying in different geographies is an excellent strategy by TSMC and so TSMC is now part of Nvidia's diversity and redundancy strategy," chief Jensen Huang said

China hawks in Washington blame US investors for transferring capital and valuable know-how to Chinese tech companies that could help advance Beijing's military

Among the critics of the viral technology were Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio – two of the three so-called "godfathers of AI”