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  • FILE – Visitors pass the Chinese Communist Party flag at the museum of the Communist Party of China in Beijing, Oct. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte, File)Politics

    China taps into AI to ramp up fake-news campaign amid U.S. election

    By Didi Tang, David Klepper, and others
  • FILE – Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis attends a meeting at the State Department, March 25, 2024, in Washington. The State Department has set up an eight-person team known as the “firm” to provide help to countries cut off from Chinese trade. The team emerged after Washington stepped in to help Lithuania when the northern European country found its cargo shipments to and from China stranded two years ago during a feud over Taiwan. Landsbergis said the aim of Chinese economic pressure “is to crush the victims by forcing reversal and public renunciation of its policies.” (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)Finance

    8-person State Department team known as ‘The Firm’ aids countries when China cuts off trade: ‘We run a consulting firm that does not have to advertise’

    By Didi Tang and The Associated Press
  • A worker leaves the factory of King Yuan Electronics Co., after work in Hsinchu City, Northwest Taiwan, May 9, 2024. In late April 2024, King Yuan Electronics Corp., a Taiwanese company specializing in semiconductor testing and packaging, said it was ending its two-decade-long run in mainland China by selling off its entire stake, worth $670 million, in its venture in the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)Finance

    Taiwan is now exporting and investing more in the U.S. than China in major pivot away from Beijing

    By Didi Tang and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A worker assembles an SUV at a car plant of Li Auto, a major Chinese EV maker, in Changzhou in eastern China’s Jiangsu province on March 27, 2024. The Biden administration is announcing plans to slap new tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, advanced batteries, solar cells, steel, aluminum and medical equipment. (Chinatopix Via AP, File)Politics

    Biden administration makes increased China tariffs official, slapping 102.5% taxes on EVs and 50% duties on solar cells and chips

    By Josh Boak, Fatima Hussein, and others
  • FILE – A TikTok content creator, sits outside the U.S. Capitol, April 23, 2024, in Washington. TikTok is gearing up for a legal fight against a U.S. law that would force the social media platform to break ties with its China-based parent company or face a ban. A battle in the courts will almost certainly be backed by Chinese authorities as the bitter U.S.-China rivalry threatens the future of a wildly popular way for young Americans to connect online. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, file)Politics

    China signals TikTok should fight ‘robbers’ sell-or-ban U.S. law meant ‘to snatch from others all the good things that they have’. Here’s what’s next

    By Didi Tang, Haleluya Hadero, and others
  • President Joe Biden and China President Xi JinpingPolitics

    Biden, Xi exchange warnings on 2024 election and Taiwan as U.S.-China talks to ramp up

    By Zeke Miller, Didi Tang, and others
  • FILE – Devotees of TikTok, Mona Swain, center, and her sister, Rachel Swain, right, both of Atlanta, monitor voting at the Capitol in Washington, as the House passed a bill that would lead to a nationwide ban of the popular video app if its China-based owner doesn’t sell, March 13, 2024. If some U.S. lawmakers have their way, the United States and China could end up with something in common: TikTok might not be available in either country. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)Tech

    TikTok is trying to distance itself from Beijing but U.S. lawmakers aren’t having it: ‘There’s no such thing as a private company in China’

    By Didi Tang and The Associated Press
  • LaFonda D, Sutton-Burke, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Director of Field Operations poses for a portrait at the agency’s overseas mail inspection facility at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport Feb. 23, 2024, in Chicago. The explosive growth of cross-border e-commerce involving major China-backed players such as Shein and Temu has caught the attention of the U.S. lawmakers amid a bitter U.S.-China trade war and cast a spotlight on a tax rule that critics say has allowed hundreds of millions of China-originated packages to enter the U.S. market each year without duty and without reliable information for lawfulness. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)Finance

    Chinese retailers like Shein have offered Americans deep bargains on clothes for years—but that could soon change

    By Didi Tang and The Associated Press
  • FILE – In this file photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, staff members work in an inflatable COVID-19 testing lab provided by Chinese biotech company BGI Genomics, a subsidiary of BGI Group, in Beijing, June 23, 2020. Members of Congress are raising alarms about what they see as America’s failure to compete with China in biotechnology, with risks to U.S. national security and commercial interests. But as the countries’ rivalry expands into the biotech industry, some say that shutting out Chinese companies would only hurt the U.S. (Chen Zhonghao/Xinhua via AP, File)Politics

    U.S. lawmakers are trying to bar Chinese biotech companies over fears about America’s failure to compete with China in the industry

    By Didi Tang and The Associated Press
  • Alexander YuiPolitics

    Taiwan’s top diplomat sets record straight on China: ‘We want the status quo. We want the way it is’

    By Didi Tang and The Associated Press
  • Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, second left, toasts with invited guests after delivering a speech at a reception for Commemoration of the 45th Anniversary of China-U.S. Diplomatic Relations at the Diaoyutai Guest House in Beijing on Jan. 5.Health

    A US biotech company has halted sales of DNA kits in Tibet—and lawmakers are mulling more export controls on China

    By Didi Tang and The Associated Press
  • Xi/BidenRetail

    Panda diplomacy is back after Xi/Biden summit as China’s president learned many ‘were really reluctant to say goodbye to the pandas’

    By Didi Tang and The Associated Press
  • TOPSHOT – US President Joe Biden (R) and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk together after a meeting during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ week in Woodside, California on November 15, 2023. Biden and Xi will try to prevent the superpowers’ rivalry spilling into conflict when they meet for the first time in a year at a high-stakes summit in San Francisco on Wednesday. With tensions soaring over issues including Taiwan, sanctions and trade, the leaders of the world’s largest economies are expected to hold at least three hours of talks at the Filoli country estate on the city’s outskirts. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)Politics

    Biden and Xi agree to curb illicit fentanyl and restart military communications—but remain miles apart of many critical issues

    By Aamer Madhani, Colleen Long, and others
  • President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping shaking handsLeadership

    Biden and Xi’s first meeting in a year will try to define U.S.-China relationship as the economically warring nations pull apart

    By Aamer Madhani, Didi Tang, and others
  • Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, left, shakes hands with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng while standing in front of their respective country's flagPolitics

    Janet Yellen meets with her Chinese counterpart in San Francisco with a Xi-Biden meeting expected next week

    By Fatima Hussein, Didi Tang, and others