Artificial intelligence will play a critical role in shaping China's fortunes as a great power. Yet Beijing’s attempt to translate wins by today’s innovators like DeepSeek and others into wider gains for the $18 trillion economy will be challenged not just by the United States but also by the Chinese Communist Party’s own desire to maintain control.

Thai firms grappling with losses of about $60 million from China's ban on sugar syrup face shutdowns as soon as next month, an industry body said, while negotiations by officials of the Southeast Asian nation to lift the measure yielded no fruit.

President Donald Trump’s rapprochement with Russia has some experts suggesting he might be trying to do a “reverse Nixon” and isolate Beijing by courting Moscow.

Former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and other former U.S. national security officials on Tuesday warned that China was outpacing the U.S. in critical technology fields and urged Congress to increase funding for federal scientific research.

The benchmark S&P 500 and the Nasdaq had a subdued start on Tuesday as markets braced for the potential impact of more stringent U.S. trade controls on Beijing and awaited quarterly earnings from AI-chip leader Nvidia.

The French nuclear-powered aircraft carrier has been deployed for a five-month Indo-Pacific mission since last November.

Mexico has previously imposed tariffs on countries that it doesn’t have free trade agreements with, President Sheinbaum said.