Exports from Xinjiang rose to $409bn in the first 10 months of 2023 and could go higher as trade has jumped to countries in Central Asia and Southeast Asia, despite western sanctions.

While the Chinese president’s US visit didn't do much to ease the weight of Washington's chip sanctions on the world's second-largest economy, it did manage to score several brownie points

US officials are investigating if Applied Materials broke sanctions by sending gear worth 'hundreds of millions' to top China chipmaker via a unit in South Korea in 2021 and 2022, sources say

All other members back US push for economies to boost opportunities for disadvantaged groups and incorporate clean energy and carbon-emission reduction goals in their trade policies

Tencent is the second large Chinese technology company to look for domestic alternatives to Nvidia amid tightening US sanctions

Xi came into the meeting looking for respect from the US, and also seeking to improve fast-cooling business dealings with the world's biggest economy

Huawei saw its sales surge 83% in the first four weeks of October, according to data from Hong Kong-based research firm Counterpoint

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index saw its best day in four months, while the Nikkei rose 2.5% and most other Asian markets and currencies were also lifted

For US businesses, the dinner will particularly be a chance to hear directly from the leader of the world’s second-biggest economy as they search for ways to navigate its economic slowdown

Beijing bought $14-billion worth of chipmaking equipment from the Netherlands and other countries this year, before they imposed bans to compliment the US-led effort

The Biden-Xi summit in San Francisco is likely to see a pledge to ban AI in nuclear weapons and autonomous weapons, sources have told the South China Morning Post

Notorious hacking gang Lockbit claims the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China paid a ransom to resolve the attack on the bank's unit in the United States