Chinese leader Xi Jinping returns to Washington for bilateral talks and a state dinner, where tariffs, rare earth minerals and artificial intelligence will test a fragile U.S.-China truce.

Karoline Leavitt revealed President Donald Trump's private talks with foreign leaders mirror his public stance, detailing tense calls with Putin, Xi and a blunt lunch with Starmer.

China is now requiring permits for exports to the U.S., Mexico, and Canada of two additional chemicals used to make illegal drugs. The Commerce Ministry announced the new regulations ahead of

A ​US battery startup that scrapped plans to make Kentucky the site of its first factory has instead built it in China, exposing ‌the limits of President Donald Trump's efforts to lure manufacturing home just as he welcomes Chinese President Xi Jinping for a summit.

Beijing is courting Taiwan’s opposition—and quietly helped stage its leader’s landmark visit to the mainland—to pull the island into its orbit.

The Trump-Xi show has started in earnest, ahead of the much-anticipated summit between the leaders this week. While trade is the perennial bugbear between the world’s largest economies, it’s artificial intelligence that’s grabbing headlines.

Manufacturers are struggling with constrained supplies as U.S. and Chinese officials negotiate over export restrictions with consequences for global industry.

Trump has insisted that the U.S. is comfortably ahead of China, but his efforts last year to confront China with a mounting set of tariffs backfired. China holds a relative monopoly on the rare earths used in electronics and deployed that to help force a trade armistice with Trump.

The US government’s increased reliance on a Pentagon blacklist to target China’s biggest companies threatens to cast a pall over President Donald Trump’s summit this week with his Chinese counterpart,

China’s shipments of rare earth magnets to the US fell to 512 tonnes in August, 13 per cent lower than the same month a year earlier and 20 per cent lower than July, according to official Chinese customs data released on Sunday.

By Trevor Hunnicutt, Yimou Lee and Ben Blanchard WASHINGTON, Sept 22 (Reuters) - China's Xi Jinping is expected to press US President Donald Trump to halt Taiwan arms sales under a 1982 joint statement during a visit to Washington this week,