US-China relations

Airbnb’s CEO says US ‘misunderstanding’ use of Chinese open-source AI models

Low-cost AI models from China that can perform almost as well as costlier offerings from premier US labs

The Commerce Ministry in Beijing has confirmed that the Board of Trade will seek to cut tariffs on at least US$30 billion worth of goods.

China signals it will accept some US tariff increase in talks

It is a sign that ties between the world’s two largest economies are further stabilising

CEO Jensen Huang has previously identified China as a US$50 billion opportunity for Nvidia.

China will open its market to AI chips from US, Nvidia’s CEO says

NVIDIA chief executive officer Jensen Huang, speaking days after he joined President Donald Trump’s May 14-15 summit in China, said he expects Chinese authorities will eventually allow the import of a...

US President Donald Trump with Chinese President Xi Jinping after a visit to the Zhongnanhai Garden in Beijing on May 15.

US, China to set up trade and investment boards to address mutual concerns, says Beijing

THE US and China agreed to establish boards on trade and investment at the May 14-15 Trump-Xi summit, though US President Donald Trump said he did not discuss a possible extension of his tariff truce ...

US President Donald Trump needs economic wins to bring back an electorate weary of global instability.

The art of the deal 2.0: why pragmatism is defining the new US-China trade order

For Singapore and the wider South-east Asian region, this is a double-edged sword

US President Donald Trump (left) with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The strategic interests of the US and China remain wholly incompatible.

Trump-Xi summit: tactical concessions but little strategic breakthrough

Both Beijing and Washington can claim some kind of victory from the summit without giving up much

US President Donald Trump with President Xi Jinping after a visit to Zhongnanhai Garden in Beijing, on May 15.
OPINION

Xi Jinping has just rewritten the rules of US-China rivalry

Beijing has accepted that it is in competition with the US but wants guard rails in place so that it does not get out of hand

US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met in Beijing from May 14 to 15.
NEWS ANALYSIS

Why were there no splashy deals at the Trump-Xi summit?

Few details have surfaced of the “fantastic trade deals” that Trump said he made with Xi

US President Donald Trump with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 14.

China signals lower levies, advances in farm trade with US following Trump-Xi summit

Beijing did not provide more specifics, adding that both teams are still currently negotiating over the details

US President Trump with Chinese President Xi while leaving after a visit to the Zhongnanhai Garden in Beijing on May 15.

Trump leaves Beijing with few wins but warm words for Xi

‘We’ve made some fantastic trade deals, great for both countries,’ says US president