“[President-elect Donald] Trump’s return to the White House will inevitably lead to significant shifts in US policy, both internationally and regionally, due to his contrasting worldview and leadership style compared to Biden,” US policy expert and a senior researcher at the Institute for Policy and Strategy at Reichman University, Dr. Shay Har-Zvi told Maariv … Read more
US president-elect Donald Trump’s repeated support for TikTok has sparked speculation about potential solutions to prevent the app’s impending ban in the United States, though the path forward remains unclear. “We got to keep this sucker around for a little while,” Trump told supporters on Sunday, just days after meeting TikTok CEO Chew Shou Zi … Read more
ByteDance-owned TikTok is facing an uphill battle in the US to overturn a law that requires it to sell the American operations of its popular short video platform by January 19 or be banned in the country’s app stores, analysts said. TikTok has pledged to keep up its legal battle and is waiting on a … Read more
China has launched an antitrust investigation into Nvidia, the leading US chipmaker and a dominant player in artificial intelligence (AI) technology. This move underscores the intensifying competition between Beijing and Washington in the critical field of AI development. AI Arms Race: China Targets Nvidia China Central Television reported on Monday that Nvidia’s acquisition of Israeli … Read more
KEY POINTS Bailey said Xi’s views changed ‘in response to President Trump’s leadership’ Trump and Xi’s relationship soured during the business mogul’s first presidency China is believed to have amassed 194,000 Bitcoins from seizures China made its stance on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies clear in September 2021, when the world’s second-largest economy banned crypto, marking a … Read more
The presidential race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris comes at a time of rising geopolitical tensions on multiple fronts. In the fifth of an in-depth series, Sylvie Zhuang examines the shift in Chinese attitudes towards American elections over the decades. United States presidential elections and their representation of the American dream have long intrigued … Read more
Iran’s missile barrage this month against Israel, after a similar large-scale attack in April, shows the value, as well as the shortcomings, of US and allied missile defenses in a potential Indo-Pacific conflict with China, analysts say. Although differences between the two scenarios limit the lessons that can be learnt, the nearly 400 missiles … Read more
Taiwanese companies are continuing to do business with mainland China and appear to be less concerned about a possible war compared with two years ago, a new survey has found. Instead companies are adopting a variety of strategies to hedge risks, according to the report by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based … Read more
ByteDance, whose short video hit TikTok is under pressure to exit the US market, said Philippe Laffont, founder of New York-based Coatue Management, has exited the company’s board of directors, replaced by French businessman Xavier Niel. The Chinese company’s official website currently lists four other board members: CEO and chairman Liang Rubo, Susquehanna International Group … Read more
The contrasting visions of the two leading candidates – former US president and Republican nominee Donald Trump and Vice-President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee – present somewhat divergent paths forward. Each has profound implications not only for the two countries involved but for the entire global order. Trump has signalled an intention to double down … Read more
