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April 24, 2026 4:15 PM

After call from Beijing, China’s auto industry races to embed AI in just about everything

It took China 25 years to dominate the market for electric vehicles. Now, the country's auto industry is hurtling toward the next disruption: Embedding artificial intelligence in cars that will make the next generation of EVs not just network-connected, but self-reasoning machines running on Chinese chips and software. China's most recent five-year plan released earlier this year presented a blueprint for "AI Plus," a national project to embed AI systems into manufacturing, healthcare and almo...

March 18, 2026 9:36 AM

Trump postpones trip to Beijing as Iran war delays China reset

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he was postponing a highly anticipated trip to Beijing to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping as the war with Iran upends U.S. foreign policy and delays an effort to ease tensions between the world’s two biggest economies. "We are resetting the meeting," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. "We're working with China. They were fine with it." Trump had been set to travel to Beijing from March 31 to April 2 for the first trip there of his 14-month-...

October 30, 2025 12:18 PM

Trump cuts China tariffs to 47% after ‘amazing’ Xi meeting

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he had agreed to reduce tariffs on China to 47% in exchange for Beijing resuming U.S. soybean purchases, keeping rare earths exports flowing and cracking down on the illicit trade of fentanyl. His remarks after face-to-face talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping in the South Korean city of Busan, their first since 2019, marked the finale of Trump's whirlwind Asia trip on which he also touted trade breakthroughs with South Korea, Japan and Southeast ...

July 29, 2025 9:09 AM

Thirty dead in Beijing following heavy rain, Xinhua reports

Thirty people were killed in Beijing as of midnight on Monday as as almost a year's worth of rain hit the capital in a matter of days, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday. The deaths were reported in Beijing's mountainous northern districts, with 28 in Miyun and two in Yanqing. State media did not specify when or how the deaths occurred. Heavy rain started last Wednesday and intensified around Beijing and surrounding provinces on Monday, with the capital getting ra...

July 15, 2025 10:36 AM

EAM Jaishankar meets Chinese President Xi Jinping, discusses India-China ties

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Tuesday met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing as part of a delegation of foreign ministers attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting. In a post on X, Jaishankar said, "Called on President Xi Jinping this morning in Beijing along with my fellow SCO Foreign Ministers. Conveyed the greetings of President Droupadi Murmu & Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Apprised President Xi of the recent development of our bilateral ties. Value...

July 14, 2025 9:41 AM

EAM Jaishankar meets Chinese Vice President, emphasises ‘mutually beneficial’ outcomes through normalised ties

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, during his meeting with Chinese Vice President Han Zheng on Monday, emphasised that the continued normalisation of India-China relations could lead to "mutually beneficial" outcomes. He underscored the importance of open dialogue and the exchange of perspectives as essential between the two neighbours and leading global economies. Jaishankar, who is on a three-day visit to China to attend the Foreign Ministers’ Meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Orga...

April 19, 2025 7:54 AM

China pits humanoid robots against humans in half-marathon

Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands of runners at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing on Saturday, the first time these machines have raced alongside humans over a 21-km (13-mile) course. The robots from Chinese manufacturers such as DroidVP and Noetix Robotics came in all shapes and sizes, some shorter than 120 cm (3.9 ft), others as tall as 1.8 m (5.9 ft). One company boasted that its robot looked almost human, with feminine features and the ability to wink and smile. Some ...

March 25, 2025 10:45 PM

India and China review situation along LAC, discuss early resumption of Kailash-Mansarovar Yatra

India and China on Tuesday comprehensively reviewed the situation along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the India-China border areas and discussed the early resumption of cross-border cooperation, including trans-border rivers and the Kailash-Mansarovar Yatra, during the 33rd meeting of the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on India-China Border Affairs (WMCC) held in Beijing. The Indian delegation was led by Gourangalal Das, Joint Secretary (East Asia) at the Ministry of ...

March 6, 2025 11:14 AM

Hong Kong’s top court quashes convictions of pro-democracy Tiananmen group

Hong Kong's top court unanimously overturned on Thursday the convictions of three former members of a pro-democracy group that organised an annual candlelight vigil to mark China's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, citing a miscarriage of justice. The ruling is a rare victory for Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement in which scores of activists have been jailed or forced into exile, with many liberal and popular civil society groups shuttered. In their judgment, the five judges of the Court of Fi...

December 17, 2024 2:58 PM

NSA Ajit Doval, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi set to meet in Beijing to address boundary issue

In an effort to resolve their boundary dispute, Special Representatives from India and China, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and China’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi, will meet in Beijing on Wednesday. During the meeting, the two Special Representatives will discuss the management of peace and tranquility in the border areas and explore a fair, reasonable and mutually acceptable solution to the boundary question, according to a statement from the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA...