Former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency — the cost-slashing body known as DOGE — should train its sights on the World Bank after it was accused of losing track of $24 billion in climate funding.

Eyck Freymann is a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University and Nonresident Research Fellow with the China Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. Naval War College. Hugo Bromley is an Applied History Research Fellow at the Center for Geopolitics at the University of Cambridge.

Floor signage for the offices of DeepSeek (C) is seen in Beijing on January 28, 2025. Fears of upheaval in the AI gold rush rocked Wall Street, following the emergence of a popular ChatGPT-like model from China, with US President Donald Trump saying it was a “wake-up call” for Silicon Valley. (Photo by PETER CATTERALL / AFP)

Higher US tariffs under President Donald Trump could accelerate a slump in the value of China's currency, complicating recent efforts by Beijing to kickstart a rebound in its struggling economy, analysts warn.

Basic Law Committee member Priscilla Leung says US bill shows American politicians are 'completely ignorant' of the national security law A member of Hong Kong's Basic Law Committee has warned that Beijing could "in theory" take over national security trials in the city if the United States advances a bill to sanction judges,

Social media exploded in a celebration after the news that a Chinese start-up had made an artificial intelligence tool that was more efficient than any in the United States.

Trump term mean for Taiwan, especially with a Republican-controlled Congress? After Trump was elected in 2016, he initially tried to use Taiwan to gain leverage over Beijing. After taking a congratulatory call from then-Taiwan president Tsai Ing-wen,

China said on Monday it is willing to repatriate confirmed Chinese nationals from the United States, as U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened tariffs and sanctions on some countries if they do not cooperate on accepting deportees.

Beijing said Friday the US and China could resolve their differences through "dialogue" and denied deliberately pursuing a trade surplus with the United States.

Days after Chinese upstart DeepSeek revealed a breakthrough in cheap AI computing that shook the U.S. technology industry, the chief executives of Microsoft and Meta defended massive spending that they said was key to staying competitive in the new field.

China's top diplomat held his first phone conversation with the new US secretary of state on Friday, days after Donald Trump's return to the White House brought more uncertainty to relations. Since then,