Past parades have showcased previously unseen weapons, including stealthy unmanned combat drones, rocket-powered reconnaissance aircraft, and heavy bombers.

China has been a fierce critic of sweeping U.S. tariffs that Trump announced on April 2. He later delayed the implementation of most but China, which has said it will respond with its own tariffs on U.S. imports, now faces a deadline next month to negotiate a deal.

Jaishankar, who will be on a three-day trip to the country starting July 13, will also hold bilateral talks with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi.

Beijing hopes US will view China with ‘objective, rational, pragmatic attitude,’ Foreign Minister Wang Yi tells US Secretary of State Marco Rubio - Anadolu Ajansı

Some China solar stocks jumped sharply on Thursday, continuing a multi-day rise on news that Beijing wants to dampen aggressive price cutting that has driven down prices of some components by nearly 30% in the year to May,

"The EU and China are broadly on a colliding trajectory in terms of their trade and industrial policy concerns," he told CNBC. Bones of contention include the challenge of China's overcapacity and trade diversion to Europe, Stec, who is also head of the Mercator Institute's Brussels office, explained.

The U.S. Pacific Fleet commander says China has failed to intimidate rival claimant states into surrendering their sovereign interests in the South China Sea despite its intensifying “bullying tactics” and the United States and other allied countries

China urged the European Parliament to stop politicising trade and economic issues and applying double standards on export controls, its mission to the European Union said on Friday. The remarks were in response to a motion approved by EU lawmakers on Thursday condemning Beijing over its export restrictions on rare earths.

China's government appears to be censoring U.S. President Donald Trump's recent claim that he warned Chinese leader Xi Jinping he would bomb Beijing if the East Asian power invaded Taiwan, according to Newsweek's analysis of search results.