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.

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, a top Taiwanese intelligence ‌official said on Thursday.

May 6 (Reuters) - China's financial regulator has advised the country's largest lenders to temporarily suspend new loans to five refineries recently sanctioned by the U.S. over their ties to Iranian oil,

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?

The war in Iran has left China’s neighbors appealing for help, handing Beijing the kind of sway it has long sought.

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.

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.

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