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John Phelan has no military experience. He is Donald Trump’s pick to be the next US Navy secretary. Photo: MSD Capital

Trump chose a financier to be the next US Navy secretary. Here’s why

Appointment of John Phelan aimed at making defence spending more efficient by tackling corruption, analysts say.

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China chip supply chain calls for ‘cooperation’ after broader US restrictions

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Artificial intelligence

OpenAI, defence tech firm Anduril team up to build AI for anti-drone systems

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China-Middle East relations

Iran’s president vows greater cooperation with China and Russia

President Masoud Pezeshkian tells visiting Chinese Vice-Premier Zhang Guoqing Tehran is committed to their 25-year deal.

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Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian told visiting Chinese Vice-Premier Zhang Guoqing Tehran is committed to the 25-year agreement it signed with Beijing. Photo: president.ir

Mainland China sanctions 13 US companies over weapons sales to Taiwan

The sanctions list includes drone and artificial intelligence companies.

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China's economic recovery

Vice-premier tells Goldman Sachs president investment will boost ties

He Lifeng has met top executives from at least five multinational companies in the past month.

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Trump to ‘disrupt’ US-China flows as law firm shuts Beijing office: analysts

New York-based Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison plans to close its Beijing office at the end of the year.

5 Dec 2024 - 8:00AMvideocam

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US should blunt ‘collaboration’ by China, North Korea, Russia: senior officials

Outgoing national security adviser urges Trump administration to expand defence cooperation with allies amid ‘dangerous’ global landscape.

5 Dec 2024 - 7:30AMvideocam

8 US telecoms firms, dozens of nations hit by China hacking, White House says

The US believes the hackers were able to gain access to communications of senior US government officials and prominent political figures.

5 Dec 2024 - 7:30AMvideocam

China’s military drills

Amid fighter fleet overhaul, China’s military cuts its pilot training by a year

By 2026 most PLA fighter pilots could have initial flight and transition training in 3 years: US military think tank.

5 Dec 2024 - 9:26AMvideocam

The PLA’s JL-10 trainer jet is helping cut training times for Chinese fighter pilots. Photo: Reuters

Opinion | Trump’s victory a reminder the ‘end of history’ remains far away

As countries respond to global crises and challenges to multilateralism, a new era has dawned that cannot be understood using old precepts.

5 Dec 2024 - 8:29AMvideocam

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Trump picks Peter Navarro, US-China trade war architect, for senior role

Beijing-sanctioned economist who spent time in federal prison tasked with advancing White House agendas on ‘manufacturing, tariff and trade’.

5 Dec 2024 - 3:18AMvideocam

How will China policy go after Trump overhauls the US government?

Planned purge means loss of institutional knowledge and working-level communications, but there are upsides, analysts say.

5 Dec 2024 - 5:18AMvideocam

China-EU relations

EU-China rivalry and trade frictions to persist under Trump 2.0, top envoy says

Without changes from Beijing, tensions over Ukraine war and economic competition unlikely to improve, bloc’s ambassador warns.

4 Dec 2024 - 8:00PMvideocam

EU ambassador to China Jorge Toledo speaks at the 9th China Global Think Tank Innovation Forum in Beijing on Wednesday. Photo: Handout

‘Never a good choice’: China’s retaliation for US curbs may be just starting

An expected escalation of the US-China trade war, and the Chinese public’s demand for a response, could light a fire under Beijing’s policymakers, former PBOC head says.

4 Dec 2024 - 7:59PM

Fresh comments from former central bank governor Yi Gang have painted a worrisome picture of relations between China and the US over the next four years. Photo: AP

US-China trade war

Opinion | China knows how to handle Trump 2.0

When future historians look back on China’s rise, Trump’s trade war might well be viewed as having helped to prevent a Chinese crisis.

4 Dec 2024 - 6:25PMvideocam

Chinese drone maker DJI fights to shake off ‘military’ tag

DJI was featured in a video published by The Financial Times on November 22, titled ‘Should the US ban Chinese drones’.

4 Dec 2024 - 11:21AMvideocam

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South China Sea

South China Sea: Beijing submits Scarborough Shoal baseline documents to UN

Incoming US president Donald Trump’s administration may challenge declaration of straight baselines as overreach by China, say experts.

4 Dec 2024 - 8:00AMvideocam

Geng Shuang, the deputy permanent representative of China to the UN, deposited coordinates and charts asserting China’s sea territory surrounding Scarborough Shoal with the UN on Monday. Photo: AFP

US blasts China’s export ban on key minerals, vows ‘necessary steps’

Beijing’s new restrictions on germanium and gallium exports ‘underscore the need to diversify away from China’, US State Department tells the Post.

4 Dec 2024 - 9:18AMvideocam

Opinion | US tech blind spot risks harming the country’s competitiveness

Policymakers have failed to implement safeguards for tech product safety, while being aggressive towards those at the forefront of discovery.

4 Dec 2024 - 5:46AMvideocam

How Trump’s push to end Ukraine war tips his hand on China, Russia

US president-elect likely to encounter difficulties given the three countries’ aligned interests in challenging the West, analysts say.

4 Dec 2024 - 8:08AMvideocam

Illustration: Davies Christian Surya

Human rights in China

3 Uygurs freed as part of US-China prisoner exchange: report

The Biden administration reportedly drove ‘a fairly tough bargain’ with Beijing in gaining the release of the Uygurs.

4 Dec 2024 - 5:07AMvideocam

Ayshem Mamut and US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns after her release from Chinese custody last week. Photo: via X

Donald Trump’s looming global impact

This three-part series looks at what effect Donald Trump’s incoming US presidency is expected to have on international relations – and how people and governments are trying to prepare.

5 Dec 2024 - 12:35AM

China's military weapons

How China, US are using different drone strategies in race for air superiority

World’s top two military powers remain focused on traditional warplanes, but China’s ‘innovative use’ of UAVs could be the difference, analysts say.

5 Dec 2024 - 12:24PMvideocam

Chinese academics grapple with the idea of a rising East and a declining West

The notion faded from discussion for a while, but it continues to resonate.

3 Dec 2024 - 11:04PMvideocam

Some academics say an “irreversible” shift is under way. Photo: Xinhua

US-China trade war

Opinion | Why no country is safe from Trump’s pro-tariff agenda

Trump’s challenge to global trading norms fits with his agenda of undermining consensus and punishing US trading partners individually.

3 Dec 2024 - 8:30PMvideocam

Illustration: Craig Stephens

Jimmy Lai trial

Jimmy Lai says he opposed US decision to end Hong Kong’s special trade status

Any change to Hong Kong’s preferential trade status in the United States would be counterproductive, former media boss tells trial.

3 Dec 2024 - 7:46PM

China industry bodies call for ‘caution’ in buying US chips amid latest sanctions

This initiative could deal a blow to the mainland businesses of Nvidia, Qualcomm and Intel.

4 Dec 2024 - 12:06AM

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16 October, 2024

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