China said Thursday that an investigation had found the European Union imposed unfair “trade and investment barriers” on Beijing, marking the latest salvo in long-running commercial tensions between the two economic powers.

It was almost a year before a handful of Chinese AI chatbots received government approval for public release. Some questioned whether China’s stance on censorship might hobble the country’s AI ambitions.

Yet Trump's imminent reentry into the White House could leave Britain in the middle of two behemoths if the incoming U.S. president makes good on his pledge to impose punitive trade tariffs on China. Soames, however, believes the U.K. should take advantage of this position.

As the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Eve, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a speech full of communist triumphalism and ideological zeal. He touted the China plan as “an epic change the world hasn’t seen in a century,

So far, China has used carbon intensity — the amount of carbon dioxide emitted per unit of GDP — as its official target. It announced the metric in 2009, at the height of its economic growth, after facing pressur e to set a quantitative goal to curb its emissions. Its argument was that it was a target that wouldn’t constrain China’s growth.

China has expanded the scope of a consumer goods trade-in scheme and will give more subsidies for digital purchases this year, in an effort to revive sluggish domestic demand, an official policy document showed on Wednesday.

In August of that chaotic year for Asia’s biggest economy, President Xi Jinping’s team announced a nearly 3% downshift in the yuan’s value versus the dollar. Naturally, it caused pandemonium in world markets — at least briefly. The real fallout, though, was suffered by China itself, as huge waves of capital fled yuan-denominated assets.

Observers have suggested that Xi has used an anti-corruption crackdown to eliminate rivals and entrench himself at the center of China's political hierarchy.

China's leaders are bracing for potential shocks to the economy from higher tariffs once U.S. President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

China has slammed a decision by the U.S. Treasury to sanction a Beijing-based cybersecurity company for its alleged role in multiple hacking incidents targeting critical U.S. infrastructure.

China's foreign ministry said on Wednesday it was not aware of Shandong Port Group's decision to ban U.S.-sanctioned vessels from its network of east coast harbours. The group oversees several major terminals in the province of Shandong,