China’s newest aircraft carrier may only be able to conduct air operations at about 60% the rate of a 50-year-old US Navy carrier, two former US carrier officers say, a substantial combat limitation for a vessel meant to revolutionize Beijing’s fleet.

China's top trade negotiator Li Chenggang and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng arrived on Sunday at a venue in Kuala Lumpur for a second day of trade talks between the United States and China.

The Trump administration is launching a trade investigation that opens the door to new tariffs on Chinese goods, ratcheting up tensions ahead of a highly anticipated summit next week between the countries’ leaders.

Reuters’ Ella Cao and Lewis Jackson reported that “China imported no soybeans from the U.S. in September, the first time since November 2018 that shipments fell to zero, while South American shipments surged from a year earlier, as buyers shunned American cargoes during the ongoing trade dispute between the world’s two largest economies.”

Trade Representative's office on Friday said it had launched a new tariff investigation into China's "apparent failure" to comply with the "Phase One" trade deal signed with President Donald Trump in 2020 to end his first-term U.

President Xi Jinping’s stranglehold on rare earths will give China unprecedented leverage to win concessions from the US during talks this weekend in Kuala Lumpur. Sitting in Beijing’s reserve is control over an even more vital supply chain: medicine.

BEIJING () -Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng is set to meet U. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer from Friday, as the world's two largest economies try to ease an unexpected flare-up in tension ahead of a key leaders' summit.

The Typhon missile system is one of the recently fielded U.S. weapons designed to counter China's growing military capabilities.

Ambassador Jamieson Greer warns Beijing’s “economic coercion" won’t derail the Trump administration’s effort to rebuild U.S. manufacturing and secure key supply chains.