U.S. defense chief Pete Hegseth on Wednesday stressed the role of regional partners in the Pentagon's bid to counter an increasingly assertive China. "The Indo-Pacific is our priority theater, and China is our pacing threat,

China warned the Group of Seven advanced economies on Friday against "manipulating" issues related to the world's second-largest economy for their own agenda, after they accused Beijing of unfair business practices a year earlier.

The United States and China have agreed on a framework to implement their trade truce, officials on both sides said Wednesday, after concluding two days of talks in London to defuse tensions and ease export restrictions that threaten to disrupt global manufacturing.

After Beijing and Washington reached a truce in their trade war in May, a video of far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party co-leader Alice Weidel surfaced in Chinese social media posts falsely claiming she said China was the only country that could force the United States to "sit down and negotiate".

ADAM SEGAL is the Ira A. Lipman Chair in Emerging Technologies and National Security and Director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations. From April 2023 to July 2024, he was a Senior Adviser in the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy.

An ethane tanker that loaded in the United States headed to India on Wednesday, ship tracking data showed, after Washington required U.S. exporters to seek licenses to ship the shale gas to top buyer China.

In return, President Trump said the US will provide China “what was agreed to,” including allowing Chinese students to attend American colleges and universities.

Officials from the world’s largest economies will try to strike a deal Tuesday to relax painful export restrictions that they have imposed on each other.