LIKE MANY cities in China’s hinterland, Tianshui, in the western province of Gansu, is full of dusty and disused factories. But over the past decade it has also become an unlikely high-tech hub. New ...

After a months-long trade war between China and the United States, Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are scheduled to meet Thursday in South Korea. Both countries seem to be angling for a truce; ...

As China vies with Silicon Valley for primacy, Hangzhou, home to DeepSeek and Alibaba, is where its aspiring tech titans mingle and share ideas. The West Lake in Hangzhou, China. The city has become a ...

More than a decade into Xi Jinping’s rule, China’s military has grown more formidable, its factories dominate global manufacturing and its technology pioneers are closing the gap with Silicon Valley.

Beijing is taking an industrial policy approach to help its A.I. companies close the gap with those in the United States. By Meaghan Tobin Reporting from Taipei, Taiwan When OpenAI blocked China’s ...

At the upcoming Fourth Plenum and beyond, we can expect to see the CCP take techno-nationalism to a new level. The forthcoming Fourth Plenum of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist ...

The city of Baotou—long the heart of the rare-earths mining sector that has given China a stranglehold over the modern economy—is now working to establish entire next-generation production chains. In ...