US-China relations

AI’s next frontier? China and the US look to space in the computing race

The US Federal Communications Commission said ​it would allow Americans to continue to use equipment they already own.

US bans imports of more Chinese technology goods

China wants international influence to counter Western biases, so as to win the “battle for global public opinion” and “safeguard national interests”.

China can be a useful bogeyman in American politics

Even as the world plans for an unreliable US in everything from defence to trade, it now has to cope with a new way of being captive to the world’s biggest economy.
THE BROAD VIEW

AI has granted America vast new power

DeepSeek was approved by an interagency committee in 2025 for addition to the Commerce Department’s Entity List.

US holds off blacklisting China’s DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks: sources

News that SpaceX would bar Chinese investors from its IPO was reported earlier by Bloomberg.

China investors being shut out as some American AI firms, including SpaceX, go public: sources

Indian Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar at the Quad Foreign Ministers' Meeting in New Delhi in May. India is still part of this bloc with the US, Australia and Japan, but runs its own foreign policy when its interests do not align with Washington's.

What is ‘strategic autonomy’ – and why is everyone suddenly reaching for it?

The release of DeepSeek-R1 in January 2025 was, for many observers, a demonstration that hardware disadvantage need not mean capability disadvantage.

The US and China’s AI race will define the century

The move comes as Beijing and Washington are racing to dominate artificial intelligence and other key technologies.

China tightens outbound investment rules with eye on security

The new guidance does not change anything for Nvidia, a company official says.

US takes step to halt Nvidia AI chip shipments to Chinese firms outside China