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The Bloomberg 'spy chip' report has exposed the security risks involved with manufacturing in China and vulnerabilities in the tech supply chain.

Due to the Sino-US trade war, which has affected China’s soybean imports, the country’s 400 million pigs are looking at going on diet. The China Feed Industry Association (CFIA) plans to reduce protein content in pig feed to reduce China’s reliance on soybeans.

Vice President Mike Pence’s unprecedented speech on China-U.S. relations last week is still causing shockwaves due to its unflinching directness in calling out China on its litany of transgressions.

Xu Yanjun, a deputy division director within China’s primary intelligence agency, is being charged for his scheme to steal jet engine tech.

WASHINGTON—The federal government will tighten rules on foreign investment in sensitive industries like technology and telecommunications next month, the Treasury Department said on Oct. 10, as it starts to enforce a law aimed at curbing Chinese investment in 27 sensitive sectors. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) reviews mergers and stock […]

WASHINGTON—China is waging an unprecedented campaign to influence American public opinion as November congressional elections approach and presents the greatest long-term counterintelligence threat to the United States, U.S. security officials said on Oct. 10. Senators on the Homeland Security Committee questioned Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and FBI Director Christopher Wray about President Donald Trump’s […]

BEIJING—A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers wants President Donald Trump to help Muslims respond to a sweeping crackdown in China’s northwest Xinjiang region. The group proposed legislation on Oct. 10 that would urge Trump to condemn “gross violations” of human rights in the Xinjiang region, where the U.N. estimates that as many as 1 million […]

BEIJING—China’s export growth is expected to have further slowed in September, weighed down by a faster decline in orders as an intensifying trade war with the United States starts to hurt Chinese shipments, a Reuters poll showed. Import growth also likely came off recent highs, which would be a worrying sign for Chinese policymakers counting […]

In a new economic forecast by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), China is projected to be hit harder than the United States by the effects of a worst-case trade war, with its GDP expected to fall by more than 1.6 percent in 2019, compared to about an 0.9 percent decline for the United States. The […]

In a rarity for Beijing diplomacy, no effort was made to disguise the frosty and tense atmosphere encountered by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who had come for a one-day visit. The likely cause was the landmark speech given by Vice President Mike Pence a few days ago, which has been likened by many […]

Beijing is rolling back its “Thousand Talents Plan” — an ambitious initiative to attract foreign experts to China.

SHANGHAI—Shares of China’s Zhejiang Huahai Pharmaceuticals Co Ltd tumbled in early trade on Oct. 8, the first day of trading since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration halted imports of drug ingredients or medicines made by the company. The drug maker’s Shanghai-listed stock fell the maximum allowed 10 percent, its biggest drop in three months, […]

The U.S.-China trade war has compounded a food shortage already in the making inside China, due to water pollution, industrial development, and more.

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence's wide-ranging, era-defining speech on the U.S.-China relationship has got the global Chinese community talking.

WASHINGTON—U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross signaled on Oct. 5 that Washington may flex its muscle with additional trading partners in order to exert pressure on China to open its markets, saying that a “poison pill” provision in the recently completed pact with Canada and Mexico could be replicated. Ross said in an interview that the […]

HONG KONG—Lenovo and ZTE Corp shares slid on Oct. 5, hurt by worries about overseas sales after Bloomberg reported that the systems of multiple U.S. companies had been compromised by malicious computer chips inserted by Chinese spies. In a report published on Oct. 4, Bloomberg Businessweek cited 17 unidentified sources from intelligence agencies and businesses […]

WASHINGTON—China represents a “significant and growing risk” to the supply of materials vital to the U.S. military, according to a new Pentagon-led report that seeks to mend weaknesses in core U.S. industries vital to national security. The nearly 150-page report, seen by Reuters on Oct. 4 ahead of its formal release on Oct. 5, concluded […]

The study will detail how China has become the main supplier of many rare earth minerals used by the U.S. military.

WASHINGTON—Vice President Mike Pence delivered a strong message: The Chinese Communist Party is employing an unprecedented approach to meddle in the United States’ democracy and to influence public opinion, but President Donald Trump won’t back down because his leadership is working. In a speech on U.S. policy toward China at the Hudson Institute on Oct. […]

WASHINGTON—Author Sulmaan Khan unveiled his new book “Haunted by Chaos: China’s Grand Strategy from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping” at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 24. He said that the changing of leaders in communist China hasn’t brought about fundamental changes because of a sense of insecurity, which […]