Didi Tang

Stay informed with Didi Tang’s coverage and analysis.

Page 2 of 3

WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 05: U.S. President Donald Trump takes a question from a reporter in the Oval Office at the White House on May 05, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump signed new proclamations and executive orders, including one that ends federal funding for so-called “gain-of-function” studies, which explores the use of microorganisms to alter biological functions in the aid of gene products. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

US-China tariff talks to continue Sunday as Trump touts ‘great progress made’ on first day

By Paul Wiseman, Didi Tang, and others

Scott Bessent in a crowd

U.S. and China officials agree on first high-level trade talks since Trump announced tariffs

By Zeke Miller, Fatima Hussein, and others

FILE – Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato arrives at the prime minister’s office Monday, Nov. 11, 2024, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama, file)

Japan hesitates between old rival China and old friend America as Trump tariffs upend alliances

By Mari Yamaguchi, Didi Tang, and others

US President Donald Trump looks on as he hosts the annual Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House on April 21, 2025, in Washington, DC. According to the US National Park Service, the egg roll tradition dates back to 1878 when President Rutherford B. Hayes invited children to roll Easter eggs on the White House grounds. Children previously rolled eggs down a hill at the US Capitol in the early 1870s, but a law was passed in 1876 forbidding the Capitol property from being used due to the toll on the lawn. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump ending the tariff loophole that allowed companies to cheaply ship 4 million packages per day from China to the U.S. could raise prices even further

By Anne D'Innocenzio, Didi Tang, and others

FILE – President Donald Trump, left, poses for a photo with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Switzerland sends top politicians to U.S. and China at the same time as countries are being forced to pick sides in trade war

By Didi Tang, Zeke Miller, and others

A robot dog from Boston Dynamics

American robot firms, including Tesla and Boston Dynamics, warn that without a national strategy ‘the U.S. will not only lose the robotics race but also the AI race’

By Didi Tang, Matt O'Brien, and others

A cargo ship goes through the Panama Canal’s Cocoli locks in Panama City, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

BlackRock strikes $23 billion deal to bring ports on both sides of Panama Canal under American control

By The Associated Press, Didi Tang, and others

C.C. Wei, Chairman and CEO of TSMC, speaks after US President Donald Trump announced the chip-making giant TSMC will invest “at least” $100 billion in the United States to build “state of the art” chip manufacturing facilities in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 3, 2025. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP) (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

TSMC will spend $100 billion to expand chip manufacturing in U.S.— on top of its previous $65 billion investment

By The Associated Press, Didi Tang, and others

TOPSHOT – China’s President Xi Jinping arrives at the APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting (AELM) at the Convention Centre in Lima, on November 16, 2024. (Photo by Luis ACOSTA / AFP) (Photo by LUIS ACOSTA/AFP via Getty Images)

China’s relations with U.S. partners like Japan and India start to improve as Trump returns to White House

By Ken Moritsugu, Didi Tang, and others

China’s President Xi Jinping gathers for the world leaders’ group photo at the G20 Summit, in Rio de Janeiro, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

China President Xi Jinping likely to decline Trump’s inauguration invitation, seeing it as too risky

By Didi Tang and The Associated Press

Biden administration bans imports of Chinese steel and artificial sweetener brands on forced labor allegations

By Didi Tang and The Associated Press

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)

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)

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)

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)

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