China’s rise is unstoppable, president tells central economic work conference, hails ‘moral backbone’ in rare allusion to US trade war.

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For China, President Trump’s moves to loosen chip controls, soften U.S. rhetoric and stay silent on tensions with Japan amount to a rare string of strategic gains.

US president Donald Trump says he has asked Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to consider releasing Jimmy Lai, after the British media mogul was convicted of sedition in Hong Kong. Mr Trump, who previously promised to “ 100 per cent get him out ” of jail, expressed sadness over Lai’s plight but stopped short of making a pledge to secure his release.

China's President Xi Jinping met French President Emmanuel Macron in Beijing on Thursday, the French leader's fourth state visit to the Chinese capital as Europe seeks to rebalance economic and security threats from the world's second-largest economy.

Thousands of miles from China’s populous coastline, a sharp bend in a remote Himalayan river is set to become the centerpiece of one of the country’s most ambitious – and controversial – infrastructure projects to date.

Chinese president Xi Jinping has expressed strong support for the jailing of British media tycoon Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong, just weeks before Sir Keir Starmer is due to travel to Beijing for an important trade visit. Mr Xi gave his endorsement for Lai’s conviction during a meeting with Hong Kong chief executive John Lee in Beijing.

BEIJING, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Chinese leader Xi Jinping accompanied French President Emmanuel Macron to Chengdu on Friday, a rare gesture seemingly reserved for the head of Europe's second-largest economy that highlights Beijing's focus on Paris in its ties with the European Union.

The annual Central Economic Work Conference (CEWC) was held in Beijing from December 10 to 11. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission,

Shenzhen team completed a working prototype of a EUV machine in early 2025, sources say Read more at The Business Times.

In a high-security Shenzhen laboratory, Chinese scientists have built a prototype of a machine capable of producing cutting-edge semiconductor chips that power artificial intelligence, smartphones and weapons central to Western military dominance.

China faces a precarious economic situation with record $1 trillion exports while domestic growth falters. Retail sales and fixed-asset investment hit alarming lows, raising concerns about the effectiveness of Xi Jinping's growth model in the face of external pressures and internal crises.