Beijing said the US seizure of a China-bound oil tanker off Venezuela was a serious violation of international law, but other factors are also seen behind gold and silver's latest rise

Demand for renewables and data centres has caused a surge in shipments of lithium-ion storage batteries, with Chinese firms exporting more than $66 billion this year

The review process, once complete could result in the first shipments to China of Nvidia's second-most powerful AI chips

Government stands by its no-nukes pledge after an unnamed security official suggested the country should have such weapons to deter aggressors. Japan has been intimidated by three nuclear-armed neighbours.

Move avoids US ban, but critics say there are unanswered issues. Elizabeth Warren says Trump wants to hand control of what people watch "to his billionaire buddies."

Chinese scientists have built an advanced chipmaking machine in a secret lab in Shenzhen with help from former ASML staff lured to produce cutting-edge chips

Beijing’s push for artificial intelligence self-reliance could be hyping up stocks of Chinese chipmakers despite their lags in technology

China Vanke is the latest developer sinking in the country's long-running property crash, which some say could drag on for another 5-10 years

Meta believed China was the country of origin of about a quarter of all ads for scams and banned products on its global platforms, but later disbanded its anti-scam team. Then, early this year it deemed the level of fraud tolerable.

The rapid expansion of money market funds, hedge funds, private credit providers, pension funds and insurers is a growing concern for the Financial Stability Board

Firms that chase the dream of AI super-intelligence will falter, a researcher has said, as the idea "ignores the physical and economic realities that constrain all systems."

Key to the fall in fossil fuel use is China’s increasing rapid transition to renewable energy, with wind and solar reportedly now generating more than a quarter of the country’s electricity