Washington is also pushing the Netherlands to stop ASML from maintaining and servicing equipment it sold to China before the Dutch chip export curbs came into effect

Analysts warn that a full-throttled recovery is still not in the cards for China, and that "it is too early to conclude" that deflation was over in the world’s second-largest economy

The US Justice Department also said the bill forcing ByteDance to divest TikTok would put the government in a stronger legal position than if the app was simply banned

The slowdown has fuelled intensifying competition in China's EV market, led by a fresh round of deep cuts by Tesla-beating carmaker BYD

TikTok and US representatives took shots at each other over everything from whether a new bill calls for a ban on the app to whether the ByteDance-backed firm should call on its users to push back against it

The employee, a Chinese national, stole details about chips and software that helps power a supercomputer "capable of executing at the cutting edge of machine learning and AI technology"

The European Commission said increasing imports from China risked injuring the region's carmakers at a magnitude "that would be difficult to repair”

The BOJ governor and a board member said the economy was nearing the central bank's 2% inflation target, boosting speculation it will soon end its ultra-easy monetary settings

The Chinese firm said it had ended its lawsuits against Amazon in Germany over patented technology related to wifi and video playback

China already has ambitious plans for long-term lunar habitation, starting with plans to land its first taikonauts on the Moon to using 3D printing technology to construct buildings on its surface

Both firms have seen their market shares squeezed by local rivals such as smartphone-maker Huawei and electric vehicle giant BYD, while a larger economic slowdown shadows China

China has allocated 1.67 trillion yuan ($230.6 billion) to military spending this year. Meanwhile, Beijing dropped reference to 'peaceful reunification' with Taiwan, a term used in previous reports