A standoff between New Zealand and the Cook Islands reflects an urgent question in the Pacific: Is China a threat or a partner for growth?

State media and online trolls have seized on the assassination to score geopolitical points against the United States, according to a new report.

For American manufacturers, it is hard to quit China and its unrivaled factories. One industry is defying that reality as it shifts more production to Vietnam.

As President Trump extended for a fourth time a deadline to determine TikTok’s future in the United States, details of an agreement to address concerns about the app began to emerge.

Top economic officials met in Madrid for a second day, with deadlines looming on tariffs and a ban on TikTok in the United States if it is not sold by its Chinese owner, ByteDance.

North Dakota farmers are scrambling to find extra storage space and bracing for land values to fall as soybeans that should be bound for China begin to pile up.

A lucrative transaction involving the Trump family’s cryptocurrency firm and an agreement giving the Emiratis access to A.I. chips were connected in ways that have not been previously reported.

President Trump is set to speak with the Chinese leader on Friday to discuss the app’s future, signaling a potential thaw between the two men.

Tariffs triggered a plunge in China’s exports to the United States, but its global trade surplus is larger because sales to other regions are surging.

Nostalgia for the fashion and culture of the years after the millennium, when the future held promise for many, is a commentary on today’s mood.

Chinese regulators, on a day of U.S. trade talks, said that an acquisition by Nvidia had violated antimonopoly regulations.

Earlier efforts to find a new, non-Chinese owner for the popular video app fell apart. A federal law that cites national security issues requires TikTok owner ByteDance to sell it or face a ban.

Trump administration officials say they have the framework of a deal to save the popular video app. It had until Sept. 17 to be sold by its Chinese owner, ByteDance, or face a ban in the United States.

Chinese regulators, on a day of U.S. trade talks, said that an acquisition by Nvidia had violated antimonopoly regulations.

The current collision course was never inevitable, and Trump’s penchant for defying norms could help ensure peace.

Economic officials meeting in Madrid are seeking to head off a November tariff deadline.

Pacific island nations have seen American pledges and attention come and go with geopolitical winds. Recent U.S. pullbacks are met with disappointment but not surprise.

The Persian Gulf nation has “open sourced” technology meant to compete with OpenAI and China’s DeepSeek.

The spotlight at the Munich auto show this year is swinging back to BMW, Mercedes and Volkswagen after previously focusing on Chinese automakers.

Nepal’s recent social media ban, part of a global censorship trend, helped set off widespread unrest, forcing the government to reverse course.

As China threatens to overtake U.S. leadership in science and technology, America has responded by sabotaging its own engines of progress.

The oil giant said Tuesday that it was acquiring assets from a Chicago company as it looks to start producing graphite, a key battery ingredient, by the end of the decade.

Tao was not a Chinese dissident, just an ordinary worker who wanted freedom. Deportation did not stop him from trying again.

Its vast investment in solar, wind and batteries is on track to end an era of global growth in the use of coal, oil and gas, the researchers said.

Farmers, builders and police officers use drones made by DJI, a Chinese company. President Trump and his allies want to stop all imports.

Already this year, China’s trade surplus with Africa is nearly as big as all of 2024, a sign of how President Trump’s tariffs are reshaping the flow of goods.

Middle-class Indians have been plowing their savings into the stock market, making it far less vulnerable to the shocks of a trade war.

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Size matters in great-power contests, and the U.S. can’t go it alone against China.