President Xi was reported to have told the top US diplomat that China and the US should be “partners, not rivals” and avoid engaging in “vicious competition.”

After Biden's swift presidential endorsement, attention is now turning to whether TikTok can win a legal fight against the divestment order

Prosecutors say Zhao, who faces sentencing in a Seattle court next week, should serve 36 months in jail for serious money laundering offences. Meanwhile, a Binance exec is languishing in a jail in Nigeria amid a legal row over 'unpaid taxes' and other 'crimes'.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to fly to Beijing to outline this threat in a bid to stop China's financial backing for Russia's military production

Asia was rocked by 79 disasters in 2023, making it the world's most disaster-prone region, with record temperatures spread far and wide

Chinese entities bought advanced Nvidia chips embedded in server products made by Super Micro, Dell and Taiwan's Gigabyte Technology after chip curbs were expanded late last year

Officials from some of the world's biggest cities are in Washington to lobby for better access to capital, to help them manage global warming and extreme weather

China announces "anti-dumping penalties" on imports of a US chemical and orders Apple to cut WhatsApp and other messaging apps. Analysts say trade tensions look set to get much hotter

US tech giant said Beijing ordered it to cut the messaging apps because of national security concerns; Telegram and Signal were also removed

Multi-year satellite study finds 45% of big Chinese cities are subsiding over 3mm a year, with 16% sinking more than 10mm a year, affecting millions of residents

US tech giant plans to spend $8 billion over the next decade to grow Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, its cloud computing service, across Japan

President eyes hiking tariffs amid a push for blue-collar votes on a visit to Pittsburgh, the 'Steel City', as China boosts steel and car exports