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US-China relations

  • Thursday, 30 October, 2025
    News in-depth
    China emerges as US ‘peer rival’ at Xi-Trump summit

    Beijing shows it can force Washington to compromise on trade issues

    Donald Trump speaks closely to Xi Jinping, who is smiling slightly, as security personnel stand around them.
  • Thursday, 30 October, 2025
    US-China trade dispute
    US and China agree one-year trade truce after Trump-Xi talks

    Leaders agree to postpone export restrictions on rare earths and semiconductors after South Korea summit

    Donald Trump and Xi Jinping shake hands in front of US and Chinese flags during a bilateral meeting in South Korea on Thursday
  • Wednesday, 29 October, 2025
    News in-depthUS-China trade dispute
    ‘The world is watching’: What Trump and Xi want from trade summit

    US and Chinese leaders expected to unveil deal to extend tariff truce amid tensions over rare earths and tech controls

    An FT montage showing an American eagle in blue and a Chinese dragon in red
  • Tuesday, 28 October, 2025
    Semiconductors
    Silicon Valley chip start-up raises $100mn to take on TSMC and ASML

    Substrate plans to use particle accelerators to lower cost of chip manufacturing

    A large Substrate logo, the ASML name, and the TSMC logo are shown on a green circuit board background with a chip illustration.
  • Monday, 27 October, 2025
    Gideon Rachman
    Trump, Xi and the danger for Taiwan

    The US president has unnerved Taiwan. But the island can still resist Beijing

    Ann Kiernan illustration of a wolf in sheep’s clothing standing on the flag of Taiwan
  • Saturday, 25 October, 2025
    United Arab Emirates
    China upgraded missiles using UAE technology, Biden spies said

    Intelligence sparked intense debate in Washington about its relationship with Gulf state

  • Saturday, 25 October, 2025
    US-China trade dispute
    US and China kick off trade talks ahead of high-stakes Trump-Xi summit

    Washington describes first day of negotiations between Scott Bessent and He Lifeng as ‘very constructive’

    He Lifeng, centre, walks with a group of officials and aides, leaving a meeting during US-China trade talks.
  • Thursday, 23 October, 2025
    Chinese politics & policy
    China’s leadership vows to step up push for ‘self-reliance’ in tech

    Party cadres met this week in Beijing to lay groundwork for next five-year plan

    Chinese President Xi Jinping stands in front of a red backdrop, wearing a dark suit and patterned tie.
  • Sunday, 19 October, 2025
    Rana Foroohar
    America’s rare earth delusion

    China’s critical minerals chokepoint has been hiding in plain sight for decades

    An illustration showing a blue excavator with US flag symbols facing a larger red excavator with Chinese flag symbols, both competing over a pile of rare earth minerals.
  • Saturday, 18 October, 2025
    US-China trade dispute
    Bessent to meet China’s vice-premier in bid to solve rare earths spat

    Gathering next week is seen as progress after new rupture in trade relationship over critical minerals

    Scott Bessent speaks, mouth open, in a suit and red tie, with a blurred ornate background and part of a banner visible.
  • Thursday, 16 October, 2025
    US-China trade dispute
    US warns world will ‘decouple’ from China if it imposes new export controls

    Scott Bessent says Washington will retaliate if Beijing proceeds with policy on rare earths and critical minerals

    Scott Bessent speaks at a podium with the US Treasury seal as Jamieson Greer stands nearby, both flanked by US and Treasury flags.
  • Tuesday, 14 October, 2025
    US-China trade dispute
    Bessent slams China: ‘They want to pull everybody else down with them’

    US Treasury secretary tells FT that Beijing’s export controls are ‘a sign of how weak their economy is’

    Scott Bessent, US Treasury secretary, during a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill.
  • Tuesday, 14 October, 2025
    Edward Luce
    US-China déjà vu all over again

    Trump’s latest piece of brinkmanship is likely to result in another climbdown

    Xi Jinping and Donald Trump
  • Tuesday, 14 October, 2025
    Nexperia
    Dutch seizure of chipmaker followed US ultimatum over Chinese chief

    Takeover of Nexperia plunges Netherlands into US-China tech war

    Toni Hrkac, wearing a cleanroom suit, holds a box with wafers on a semiconductor production line at Nexperia
  • Monday, 13 October, 2025
    Rana Foroohar
    The limits of the ‘Donroe doctrine’

    America’s attention is turning to its own backyard, but it is discovering that it still can’t go it alone

  • Sunday, 12 October, 2025
    News in-depthUS-China trade dispute
    Trump talks tough with China but holds out hope of truce in trade war

    US hardliners want tough stance but US president is taking a more nuanced approach to Beijing

    An illustration showing the U.S. and China flags placed on a circuit board with semiconductor chips.
  • Friday, 10 October, 2025
    Taiwan
    Taiwan accelerates ‘T-dome’ missile plan against China threat

    President Lai Ching-te says ‘safety net’ would include high-altitude detection and interception capabilities

    Lai Ching-te raises his fist while speaking at a podium during Taiwan's National Day celebration
  • Friday, 10 October, 2025
    Rare earths
    China unveils sweeping rare-earth export controls to protect ‘national security’

    Rules come ahead of expected meeting this month between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping

    A Chinese flag is positioned in front of a periodic table highlighting gallium and germanium with metal samples
  • Thursday, 9 October, 2025
    US-Iran tensions
    US imposes new sanctions on Iranian petroleum exports

    Measures are latest part of the Trump administration’s ‘maximum pressure’ campaign against Tehran

    An Iranian flag flies near a gas flare burning on an oil production platform in the Gulf.
  • Tuesday, 30 September, 2025
    Martin Wolf
    A world with two predatory superpowers

    Nations must work out how to contend with Trump’s America and China

    A pair of pliers, with one jaw coloured like the US flag and the other half like the Chinese flag, gripping the world in its jaws.
  • Monday, 29 September, 2025
    US-China trade dispute
    US tightens export controls on Chinese companies

    New Trump administration rule affects subsidiaries of groups blacklisted by US government

    Sign for the Herbert Clark Hoover Building, home of the US Department of Commerce, stands in front of the building's exterior.
  • Tuesday, 23 September, 2025
    US lawmakers urge greater military dialogue on rare China visit

    First bipartisan House delegation since 2019 comes ahead of Trump-Xi meeting in South Korea next month

    US representative Adam Smith speaks at a podium during a press conference in Beijing on Tuesday
  • Monday, 22 September, 2025
    FT Swamp Notes
    Trump’s U-turn on China

    There has been a discernible shift in how this administration is dealing with Beijing

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  • Friday, 19 September, 2025
    Trump and Xi to meet in South Korea as US president hails TikTok deal

    American leader says Chinese counterpart approved sale of video app’s American operations

    Donald Trump shakes hands with Xi Jinping as they stand in front of US and Chinese flags at the G20 summit in Japan in 2019.
  • Thursday, 18 September, 2025
    Google LLC
    China drops Google antitrust probe during US trade talks

    Beijing regulator’s investigation had centred Android operating system’s dominance

    Crowds walk past a Google booth at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, with Google signage and displays visible
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