Manila’s foreign affairs department defends dialogue with Beijing as its main tool in the South China Sea dispute, days after a call between Lazaro and China’s foreign minister.
Beijing’s foreign ministry acknowledged talks on a three-way summit expected on the sidelines of the Apec meeting, even as Washington pressed China on trade commitments.
The 532-page plan pours billions into housing, business and the military as Ottawa moves to curb its reliance on the United States amid Trump’s trade war.
A deal near $800 million would far exceed Manila’s last $375 million BrahMos order, as the Philippines seeks to modernize its forces amid South China Sea tensions.
Emil Michael, who also explained why the Pentagon deems Anthropic a supply-chain risk, said a federal task force will publicize the rules for domestic AI labs.
Democrats already blocked Trump’s request for a 67% rise in military spending to $1.5 trillion, and the reconciliation route for projects like Golden Dome is closing.
A phone call between the two foreign ministers produced an agreement to manage differences, alongside a Chinese demand that Manila rein in politicians Beijing accuses of intolerable conduct.
The five-year lease would have given the Chinese internet group access to as many as 100,000 advanced chips, and Oracle shares slipped more than 1% before the open.
US, Russian and Chinese officials are discussing a trilateral meeting on the sidelines of the APEC summit in China, though Beijing has not confirmed it.
The central bank’s move ended the onshore yuan’s longest winning streak in three decades and pushed the currency lower on Tuesday.
Beijing tells Tehran it backs its sovereignty while urging all parties toward political solutions, as Xi hosts Oman’s sultan and receives a message from Saudi Arabia’s crown prince.
The People’s Bank of China injected 541 billion yuan at 1.25% overnight as regulators announced measures to halt a 12-week equity sell-off.
President Lee Jae-myung’s plan raises spending 12.8%, funds nuclear-powered submarines and KF-21 jets, and targets a world-leading national AI model.
Overseas markets carried BYD’s October sales, while Xiaomi reported its highest monthly deliveries of the year despite a shrinking market for extended-range vehicles.
Rubio said the group was not close to universally accepted solutions, then hosted his Australian, Indian and Japanese counterparts, who called for free navigation in Hormuz and the Red Sea.
The contract includes options for three more vessels and extends the Korea-U.S. shipbuilding cooperation project into US Navy vessel construction.
The trilateral foreign ministers’ meeting also stressed peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and pledged closer economic ties.
Ottawa paired a security plan that calls for preparing for worst-case scenarios, including war, with an equity stake in a Toronto-based AI company.
The PLA’s Southern Theater Command sent naval and air units around the disputed shoal on Friday, as China’s coast guard and maritime militia held drills nearby.
The purge reaches into China’s nuclear, aerospace and shipbuilding industries, and the party plans a congress at which analysts expect vacant military seats in the leadership to be filled.
Liquidators of China Evergrande Group have struck a rare deal to recover value for creditors owed $46 billion by selling the developer’s profitable property management unit.
BYD earned 10 billion yuan in the quarter on revenue of 211.5 billion yuan, and Geely also reported higher profit on export-driven revenue.
Taiwan thanked both governments after Merz and Takaichi met in Tokyo and issued a statement on peace in the Taiwan Strait.
The deal came at a defence gathering in the Philippines that closed with renewed friction between Manila and Beijing over the South China Sea.
Taipei tracked Chinese ships and military aircraft around the island overnight, as Beijing bristles at Japanese support for Taiwan and its standoff with Manila deepens.
The carmaker made a loss in China and called for urgent cost cuts, yet its shares rose because the bad news had been well signposted.
Beijing is speeding up government bond sales and its ‘national team’ has poured as much as 170 billion yuan into shares this month, but global banks warn the slide may not be over.
The carmaker unveiled VEGA, a China-built package of platforms, software and driver assistance, for next-generation models aimed at Global South markets, as foreign brands lose ground in China.
The president says he is open to nuclear talks with China’s and Russia’s leaders, while Beijing has stayed quiet on the idea.
Talks to buy a deep ultraviolet lithography machine have not produced a contract, and the machine model could bring Dutch export controls into play.
China’s central bank paired a large net cash injection through reverse repos with a new swap facility for non-bank investors facing large redemptions.
China has called on the US Treasury to stop its proposed restrictions on American investment in Chinese technology, which now reach into biotechnology, and has threatened to retaliate.
The North Korean leader paid tribute to Chinese Korean War dead and met senior Chinese officials in a one-day visit read in Seoul as a message to Washington ahead of Trump’s expected trip.
Russia has proposed a three-way meeting on the sidelines of next month’s APEC summit in China, drawing comparisons to Yalta from Ukrainian critics and leaving Beijing in an unusual position.
The joint venture will pursue US Navy logistics ships and commercial vessels under South Korea’s $150 billion US shipbuilding pledge.
The Geely-controlled carmaker plans to cut 2,500 jobs, blaming China’s price war as well as US tariffs and the end of American electric-vehicle subsidies.
Jakarta would return to China’s onshore debt market, possibly in November, after selling 7 billion yuan in its debut panda bond in July.
The draft rule would add biotechnology to the outbound investment limits and covers Russia and North Korea alongside China.
Letters of intent with four companies follow 19 earlier research grants, and Commonwealth Fusion Systems has signed one worth $85 million.
Moscow put a date on a return to negotiations with Ukraine and Washington, while saying Beijing is preparing a possible three-leader meeting next month.
Beijing has put draft export controls on 23 AI-related technologies out for consultation, including open-weight models and AI agents, as it protests Washington’s DeepSeek ban.
A Homeland Security order removes the Chinese AI model from most government agencies; China says the ban disregards the consensus between the two countries.
The Reuters report lands as chip stocks recover from a nine-day slide and as Washington argues over how tightly to police AI technology bound for China.
Both contractors credited rising US and allied military spending, even as defence shares have retreated and Congress argues over new Pentagon money.
The People’s Bank of China governor used the Financial Street Forum to sketch a new policy benchmark, a liquidity facility for fund redemptions and further market opening.
The president answered a Kremlin proposal by saying he is open to a three-way meeting next month, with denuclearisation rather than Ukraine as the stated subject.
Beijing moved from consultation to binding restrictions on Monday, citing national security.
The Philippine foreign secretary protested comments her government called a threat, while both sides said they wanted to keep economic ties intact.
The Kremlin said the three leaders could meet in China next month, and Kyiv said the format would reward Moscow.
The treasury secretary used a Sunday television interview to disclose that allied governments declined to join a secondary-tariff push.
China’s commerce ministry has proposed controls on 12 solar manufacturing technologies, part of a draft list of 40.
Pan Gongsheng told the IMF’s steering committee he supports closer surveillance of fiscal and spillover risks, while pledging wider access to China’s markets.
Beijing’s draft now spans 40 technologies and separates remote AI model access from overseas deployment, while Taipei prepares criminal penalties for unauthorised AI chip exports.
The People’s Bank of China said it will keep opening its financial markets to foreigners, on the same day a US Treasury delegation raised market access for Mastercard and Citigroup.
Beijing has put forward draft rules that would license exports of advanced artificial-intelligence models, AI agents and chip-design technology, and says the policy is not aimed at any country.
The Philippine government condemned comments by China’s ambassador in Manila, while Beijing’s defence ministry said it would act to deter what it called sabotage in the disputed waters.
The European Union and China struck a preliminary agreement to limit Chinese hybrid vehicle exports to Europe, a concession Beijing had long warned it would not make.
The International Monetary Fund urged China to deploy a larger fiscal stimulus and said the country’s property crisis has lingered for too long.
Customs data show September exports surging and chip shipments more than doubling in value, while the central bank reported stronger new loans.
A slump in China is now visible in German delivery numbers while Chinese brands press their case in Europe.
The Chinese central bank’s decision is a preparatory approval rather than a licence to clear transactions.
September retail sales of new energy vehicles fell as passenger car exports jumped, and BYD said it is looking at building in France.
The People’s Bank of China has published a paper arguing its currency is not undervalued, days before EU-China trade talks that turn on exchange rates, and Barclays expects Beijing to tolerate further gradual appreciation.
The Financial Times says the new understanding protects the hybrid sector but leaves China’s trade surplus untouched, and Korean coverage says the displaced export volume is heading for South Korea.
A contractor at the centre of a 2.5 billion dollar diversion case admitted four counts, including conspiring to break US export controls and obstructing justice.
Taiwan’s president used his National Day speech to tie higher military spending to deterrence, and China’s Taiwan Affairs Office accused him of pursuing independence.
Brussels put a figure on its interim understanding with Beijing, which also opens the door to lower tariffs and easier rare-earth exports.
Beijing announced an understanding with Brussels on plug-in hybrid vehicles while the separate dispute over electric-car tariffs remains unsettled.
The People’s Bank of China issued a formal policy position on the renminbi exchange rate on the day the European Union’s trade chief arrived for talks.
Europe’s premium carmakers are shrinking around a collapsing Chinese market while Brussels prepares an import cap on Chinese hybrids.
The defence-technology company will invest $3.7 billion in a Maryland shipyard under a $2.9 billion Navy contract to build Virginia-class submarine components.
Beijing shut a record number of small lenders last year, nearly one in four, while third-quarter growth is estimated below the official target.
Ministers are reported to be ready to match the European Union’s 45% levy on Chinese electric vehicle imports.
Prosecutors say AI servers were routed to China through Malaysia and Singapore using false paperwork about their destination.
Moscow plans higher defence outlays, lower education funding and new taxes next year, with billionaires asked for a voluntary levy.
Prosecutors say restricted AI servers were routed through Malaysia and Singapore to buyers in China.
The People’s Bank of China joined other agencies in a pro-growth package that cuts the pledged supplementary lending rate, widens relending quotas and subsidises home loans.
Beijing announced a package of strengthened financial support measures, including mortgage interest subsidies aimed at reviving housing demand.
The People’s Bank of China lowered its pledged supplementary lending rate by 25 basis points as September surveys improved across sectors.
Budget documents show military spending rising 27% next year, funded by higher taxes and more borrowing.
The filing devotes almost a third of its pages to risk and discloses a buildout commitment that the company says largely cannot be cancelled.
The People’s Bank of China lowered the pledged supplementary lending rate, widened the facility’s scope and raised relending quotas in a targeted easing package.
The People’s Bank of China lowered the rate on pledged supplementary lending by 25 basis points and expanded relending quotas in a targeted package aimed at property and state arrears.
The PLA Southern Theater Command flew its WZ-7 reconnaissance drone near the contested feature for the first time.
A reported green light for the RTX PRO 5500 would partly reopen a market Nvidia has written down to nothing.
The two governments agreed to a dialogue on what the White House now calls super intelligence, but chip export controls were absent from the summit’s readouts.
A federal appeals court found the Defense Department had ample support for excluding the AI company from military work, a ruling the department celebrated publicly.
A three-day Washington summit produced reciprocal tariff relief, a channel for handling AI incidents and an extension of the trade truce, with the detail promised on Monday.
Taipei labelled Beijing a true disruptor of the status quo after Xi pressed Trump on the island, while the US ambassador to China said American policy is unchanged.
The White House fact sheet from the Xi summit creates a standing dialogue on what it now calls super intelligence, but semiconductor export controls were never on the table.
Beijing confirmed a reciprocal tariff reduction and a new dialogue on artificial intelligence as the Washington summit closed.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama held a call on the currency a day after Trump raised the weak yen directly with Japan’s prime minister.
Beijing used the White House summit to ask for a change in US declaratory policy on Taiwan; Taiwan’s foreign ministry called the account a distortion of facts.
Geely showed a battery charging from 10 to 70 percent in under five minutes on the same week that a bipartisan bill to bar Chinese vehicles from the United States was pushed toward a vote.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a two-month extension of the Busan agreement as Xi Jinping arrived in Washington.
The US Treasury secretary says Washington is open to extending the China trade truce or striking a bigger deal.
The Chinese group used its Apsara conference to claim the country’s most powerful chip and to set a data centre capacity goal stretching to 2032.
Analysts expect tariff relief at best from the Trump and Xi meeting, with no movement on semiconductor export controls or rare earths.
Regulators are using informal window guidance to hold back listings after Unitree’s slide from its post-debut peak.
A narrow notification mechanism, not a broad accord, is emerging as the likeliest deliverable of this week’s summit.
Washington has offered Beijing an emergency notification channel for artificial intelligence failures, and trade talks alongside it went further than expected.
Treasury and the US trade representative came out of New York talks with a proposed AI notification mechanism, a “Board of Trade” and the prospect of tariff cuts on non-critical goods.
Beijing left benchmark lending rates unchanged and eased its guard on the currency, which strengthened to its firmest level against the dollar since mid-2022.
The guest list for the White House dinner is drawn from the companies whose export licences are the substance of the meeting.
The People’s Bank of China left the one-year loan prime rate at 3.0% and the five-year at 3.5%, matching consensus and extending the longest pause on record.
China’s commerce ministry says it opposes measures aimed at third countries and reserves the right to respond.
Treasury and the trade representative meet He Lifeng in New York on Sunday, with AI, rare earths and the tariff truce on the agenda.
Manila says its resupply boat was struck inside its own exclusive economic zone; Beijing says the Philippine vessel caused the collision.
Industry bodies wrote to the president days before next week’s meeting, warning that market access for Chinese vehicles could be traded away.
The two leaders hold their second face-to-face meeting of the year on 24 September, with agriculture and non-tariff barriers flagged for announcements.
The Ascend 960DT is now promised for the first quarter of 2027, three quarters earlier than planned.
The measure clears Congress 262 to 159 and authorises secondary tariffs on the largest buyers of Russian oil and gas.
The central bank governor told China’s flagship party journal that slower loan growth is a structural adjustment, not a failure to be fixed with more lending.
Treasury and the US trade representative will host China’s vice premier days before the two presidents meet in Washington, with tariffs, farm goods and AI risk all on the agenda.
Beijing can now block citizens from leaving the country over national security or technology export violations, under rules that reach private citizens and lower-level officials.
The designation targets Russia’s second-largest bank for helping Iran evade sanctions and exposes institutions that keep dealing with it to secondary measures.
Factory output held up while retail sales barely grew and property investment fell close to a fifth, prompting Goldman Sachs to cut its growth forecast.
China’s first official reply rejects pacing outright, even as its own security ministry lists six principal AI risks.
Xi Jinping used the summit’s final day to propose a wider bloc, an open-source AI community and a larger role for emerging economies.
China has told Washington it will drop this month’s leaders’ meeting if new weapons sales to Taiwan are approved, putting the main channel for trade and technology bargaining at risk.
South Korea’s industry minister returned from New York without a signature, but the first project under the tariff settlement is set to be announced this week.
The New Delhi text calls for WTO and IMF reform and expands local-currency settlement, while stopping short of a common currency.
The bloc’s leaders urged maximum restraint in the Middle East while negotiators worked late to agree the text of a Delhi Declaration.
The Senate-passed bill reaches the House floor next week, with secondary measures aimed at third-country buyers the sharpest instrument in it.
A threat report from the AI company describes attempts to build missile guidance software, run propaganda networks and compile dossiers on dissidents.
Export controls meant to blunt China’s AI build-out have made its domestic accelerators dearer rather than cheaper.
India is hosting a BRICS summit attended by both Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, while trying to steer the expanded bloc away from an explicitly anti-Western turn.
August passenger-car exports jumped 67.1% from a year earlier, and new-energy vehicles took a record share of domestic sales.
The Chinese president’s first trip to India in seven years lands at a summit where payments, energy and the bloc’s unity are all in question.
China’s central bank released its plan for building a financial powerhouse and said overseas entities now hold more than 11 trillion yuan in Chinese assets.
The US government says Chinese companies are extracting proprietary capabilities from American models, and Beijing has rejected the claim ahead of planned Trump-Xi talks.
Export strength widened the trade surplus while an energy-led price rebound left domestic demand looking no stronger.
Treasury designated the country’s last major carriers, exposing foreign firms that keep doing business with them.
A capital injection for eight large state lenders and insurers lands in the same week that export growth again carries the Chinese economy.
China is injecting fresh capital into eight state-owned financial institutions as a property downturn keeps eroding credit demand.
Dollar exports rose 25% year on year in August, powered by semiconductors and autos, while imports came in below forecast.
Beijing’s finance ministry will issue special treasury bonds to inject capital into eight state-owned financial institutions, with the headline figure reported at $54 billion.
China announced a capital injection into eight state-owned banks and insurers, reported variously as 360 billion yuan, $54 billion and $45 billion.
The Ministry of Finance is leading a recapitalisation worth about 54 billion dollars across the country’s largest state lenders and insurers.