US-China relations

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

Countries are staying within US-led security and economic orders, but want wiggle room in their participation

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 rivalry is not just technological – it will also spill over into broader geoeconomics

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

Investors are prohibited from transferring restricted goods, technology, services and data overseas

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

[NEW YORK] The US Department of Commerce on Sunday (May 31) moved to close a potential loophole that may have led companies to export the world’s most advanced chips – like Nvidia’s most sophisticated...

Hegseth listed Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam among those that are stepping up.
SHANGRI-LA DIALOGUE 2026

US’ Hegseth hails Asian partners for boosting security spending; omits Taiwan in roll call

He was addressing the security and defence forum on May 30

Major General Meng Xiangqing (front, left), the head of the Chinese official delegation, leaving a special session at the Shangri-La Dialogue on May 30.
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What China hears in Hegseth’s Shangri-La Dialogue speech

Major General Meng Xiangqing did not comment on the specific points raised by Hegseth at the SLD

In what appears to be a first, a presentation of a clinical trail conducted exclusively in China will be a headliner at this year's American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting.

China’s rise in drug development looms over US

China’s ascendence as a drug development powerhouse could threaten US biotechnology

US-China rivalry leaves South-east Asian countries potentially caught in between, said Vietnamese President To Lam at the 23rd Shangri-La Dialogue on May 29.
SHANGRI-LA DIALOGUE 2026

In an unstable world of crises, solutions must come from Apac, says Vietnam’s To Lam

This comes as the region has become an arena for the strategic rivalry between the US and China

China's Defence Minister Dong Jun at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on May 31, 2024.

China’s defence minister again skips Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore attended by US’ Hegseth

CHINA’S top military diplomat will skip Asia’s biggest defence forum for a second year in a row, ceding to the US and its allies an opportunity for public defence diplomacy.