China’s top spy agency has come out of the shadows to warn that its young people are being duped by foreign forces into shirking hard work and prioritizing their individual emotions at the expense of national development.

Beijing depended on Hungary’s outgoing leader, Viktor Orban, to gain a toehold in Europe. A giant battery factory proved a step too far.

By Sam Li and Lewis Jackson BEIJING, May 7 (Reuters) - The jump in diesel prices triggered by the Iran war is expected to accelerate electrification of China’s heavy truck fleet this year, analysts and automakers say,

A visit to Beijing by Iran’s top diplomat – days before US President Donald Trump is set to travel to the Chinese capital – has turned up the spotlight on a key question: can China take on the role of peace broker in US-Iran conflict?

China’s financial regulator advised the country’s largest banks to temporarily suspend new loans to five refiners recently sanctioned by the US over their ties to Iranian oil, according to people familiar with the matter.

America needs a steady supply of China experts with on-the-ground experience to meet tomorrow’s challenges and opportunities, but this pipeline is under serious strain. Today, many rising scholars on China assume that time in-country will be seen as a mark against them in future careers in government or in the private sector.

TAIPEI, May 7 (Reuters) - China may try some "manoeuvring" over the Taiwan issue when U.S. President Donald Trump visits Beijing next week, but the U.S. has reaffirmed its policy on the island has not changed,

Yet it would be a mistake to doubt the sincerity of China’s verdict that America’s best days are past it. This worldview, partly rooted in Marxist suspicion of capitalism, gained ascendancy in China after the global financial crisis of 2008.

More than a year after the Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek, a main rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, stunned the world with its own advanced AI model, China has become a testing ground for mass use of AI tools.

Washington and Beijing recognize that powerful AI models could trigger crises neither side is prepared to manage.