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Xi Jinping to travel to North Korea next week in first visit since 2019

Chinese leader Xi Jinping will travel to North Korea next week, both countries announced Friday, in what will be his first visit in nearly seven years. His trip will the latest in a series of steps by China to reinforce its close ties with its nuclear-armed neighbour, whose leader Kim Jong Un has reached out to Russia in recent years, notably by sending troops and conventional weapons to support its war against Ukraine. Kim has likewise been cozying up again to China, the North's biggest trade partner and aid provider, in the past year. "As North Korea builds closer ties with Russia, China seeks to use Xi's trip to reassert its influence over Pyongyang and safeguard its strategic interests in northeast Asia," said William Yang, an analyst for the International Crisis Group. Xi will make a state visit from Monday to Tuesday, state media from both nations said in brief dispatches. His last visit was in June 2019. The trip will come just weeks after Xi hosted US President Donald Trum

TikTok founder surpasses Mukesh Ambani to become Asia's 2nd richest person

Zhang's net worth climbed to $92.8 billion, cementing his position as China's richest person

Best of BS Opinion: RBI faces twin inflation risks as uncertainty swirls

Today's Opinion highlights the RBI's policy choices, soaring IPL franchise valuations, fiscal challenges, climate targets and a timely examination of contemporary China

Everything You Wanted to Know About China: A guide to its past and future

Written in a question-and-answer format, this book attempts to address all the questions you may have about China, its past, and future direction

Chinese labs with links to military seek access to Nvidia's AI chips

Two of the institutions that have expressed interest in the H200 chips- Beihang University and Northwestern Polytechnical University- rank among China's 'Seven Sons of National Defence'

China developing AI tool to predict who could pose political risk

Those tools allow governments to monitor internet traffic and flag when someone tries to get around traditional internet censorship.

China expands curbs on foreign deals, tech transfer after Meta-Manus block

Beijing views ​AI as a sensitive sector critical to national security and has made efforts to control outbound flows of technology, intellectual property and talent

China's May factory activity expands for 6th month as price pressures ease

The RatingDog China General Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), compiled by S&P Global, fell to 51.8 in May from 52.2 in April, but was slightly above analysts' forecast of 51.6

Gen-Z gamer's 3D-model startup raises $200 mn, becomes China's AI unicorn

Vast competes with Tencent Holdings' Hunyuan 3D and Silicon Valley startup Meshy in the development of production-grade 3D models for video games, filmmaking, 3D printing and industrial applications

US revokes Xinhua journalist's visa after China expels NYT reporter

The Trump administration has revoked the visa of a Chinese national working for the state news agency Xinhua in the United States, in an apparent reciprocal act to Beijing's decision to expel a New York Times reporter. A person familiar with the matter confirmed the visa had been revoked. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the matter involves visa privacy. A State Department official confirmed there was a plan to revoke the visa. The tit-for-tat move by the Trump administration has followed the expulsion by Beijing of Vivian Wang, a China correspondent for The New York Times, apparently over the appearance of the Taiwanese leader in a DealBook event in which Wang had no role. It was a rare occasion of the US government directly retaliating against Beijing's expulsion of American journalists. The Times, which first reported the reciprocal move by the Trump administration, said the newspaper does not ask governments to revoke media credentials or otherwise interfere wi

Strait of Hormuz exposes China's vulnerability in Indian Ocean: Report

China's maritime vulnerability begins at the Strait of Hormuz rather than the Strait of Malacca, creating a new arena of strategic competition in the Indian Ocean among Beijing, India, France and the US, according to a report by the London-based International Institute of Strategic Studies. Released ahead of the three-day Shangri-La Dialogue security summit that opened in Singapore on Friday, the report says the Indian Ocean Region is re-emerging as a key strategic theatre after decades of relative calm following the end of the Cold War. The report, titled "Asia Pacific Regional Security Assessment", argues that China's dependence on energy supplies moving through the Indian Ocean has made the region increasingly important to Beijing's security calculations, while also exposing vulnerabilities that rival powers could seek to exploit during a conflict. The study examines strategic competition around major maritime choke points linking the Middle East and Asia, with particular focus o

Satellite images show China building launch pads near nuclear missile silos

The images reveal more than 80 pads for possible use by China's expanding fleet of mobile missile launchers and air-defence batteries

China supports 'active mediation' by Pakistan between US, Iran: Wang Yi

China has said it supports the "active mediation" by Pakistan and other countries between the US and Iran in the ongoing West Asia conflict. "Regarding the current situation, the key is the negotiation between the United States and Iran because they are the major parties concerned," Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told reporters here Tuesday. "We support the active mediation by Pakistan and other countries. Before we came here, I met with (Field) Marshal (Asim) Munir of Pakistan. We also support efforts made by the United States and Iran, respectively," Wang said. China is the president of the UN Security Council for the month of May and hosted a Council debate on 'Upholding the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and strengthening the UN-centred international system'. Wang presided over the opening session of the debate on Tuesday morning and met with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during his visit to UN headquarters. "As we have been saying, it takes more than one

Beijing curbs overseas travel for top AI talent at private firms

In China, state-owned enterprises are known to hold the passports of their senior executives and Communist Party officials

China expands overseas travel curbs to top AI professionals at pvt firms

It's unclear how broadly those curbs will affect staffers across the industry, what level of seniority may be targeted or what specific roles could be added to the list of people affected

Japan slips to world's third largest creditor behind Germany and China

Japan's net external assets rose to an all-time high of ¥561.8 trillion ($3.5 trillion) at the end of 2025, but despite the increase, the total was surpassed by China

Taiwan, Chinese coast guards in maritime standoff at South China Sea

Taiwan and Chinese coast guards exchanged warnings near the Pratas Islands amid rising tensions in the South China Sea

China's DeepSeek makes permanent 75% cut in V4-Pro AI model prices

DeepSeek did not disclose ​whether the permanent price cut was due to increased ​supply of Huawei's Ascend 950 chips, which it used to maximize V4's performance

Gas explosion at coal mine in China kills 82 workers, dozens still trapped

A gas explosion at a coal mine in China's northern province of Shanxi killed at least eight people and trapped 38 underground, state media reported Saturday. The accident at Changzhi city's Liushenyu coal mine happened Friday evening, according to official news agency Xinhua, which reported around 247 workers were underground at the time. As of early Saturday, 201 had been brought safely to the surface. The cause of the explosion was under investigation, Xinhua reported. Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for an all-out effort to rescue the missing and an investigation of the accident's cause while holding those responsible accountable, according to Xinhua. Shanxi province is known as China's main coal mining province. With a size larger than Greece and a population of around 34 million, the province's hundreds of thousands of miners dug 1.3 billion tons (1.17 billion metric tons) of coal last year, or almost a third of China's total.