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Newsweek
5 days ago
- Business
- Newsweek
China Reacts to Ukraine's Raid on Russian Bomber Bases
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. China urged all parties involved in the Russia-Ukraine war to cool down the conflict in response to Kyiv's stunning Operation Spiderweb against Russian airfields, which destroyed a number of Moscow's strategic nuclear bombers deep inside Russia. The operation has been dubbed "Russia's Pearl Harbor" because of its shock value and significance. Ukraine said it hit 41 aircraft in total, causing an estimated $7 billion of damage. Asked by Newsweek about the recent Ukrainian operation, Liu Pengyu, spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Washington, DC, said China's position is "consistent and clear". "It calls on all parties to abide by the 'three principles' for cooling down the situation, namely, no spillover of the battlefield, no escalation of the conflict and no fanning the flames," the spokesperson said. "China will continue to maintain communication with the international community and play a constructive role in promoting the political settlement of the crisis." Russia and China have deepened their strategic partnership over the course of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. This is a developing article. Updates to follow.
CNBC
30-05-2025
- Business
- CNBC
China calls out Trump for 'abuse' of semiconductor export controls
China is calling out the U.S. for "discriminatory restrictions" in its use of export controls in the chip industry, after the Trump administration accused the world's second-largest economy of violating a preliminary trade deal between the two countries. "Recently, China has repeatedly raised concerns with the U.S. regarding its abuse of export control measures in the semiconductor sector and other related practices," China U.S. embassy spokesperson Liu Pengyu told NBC News. It's the latest escalation in the simmering trade war between the U.S. and China, particularly as it pertains to artificial intelligence and the infrastructure needed to develop the most advanced technologies. China's response comes after President Donald Trump said early Friday in a social media post that China had violated a trade agreement. U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told CNBC in an interview that the "Chinese are slow rolling its compliance." On May 12, the U.S. and China agreed to a 90-day suspension on most tariffs imposed by either side. That agreement followed an economic and trade meeting between the two countries in Geneva, Switzerland. "China once again urges the U.S. to immediately correct its erroneous actions, cease discriminatory restrictions against China and jointly uphold the consensus reached at the high-level talks in Geneva," the embassy spokesperson said. The statement didn't specify any actions taken by the U.S. Earlier this month, China said the U.S. was "abusing" export controls after the U.S. banned American companies from importing or even using Huawei's AI chips. The U.S. has limited exports of some chips and chip technology to China as part of a national defense strategy dating back to the first Trump administration. In 2019, President Trump cut off Huawei's access to U.S. technology, which forced it to essentially exit the smartphone business for a few years before it could develop its own chips without use of U.S intellectual property or infrastructure. In 2022, the Biden administration first moved to cut off Chinese access to the fastest AI chips made by Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices. The restrictions have intensified of late, and earlier this week, chip software makers, including Synopsys and Cadence Design Systems, said they had received letters from the U.S. Commerce Department telling them to stop selling to China. Nvidia, which makes the most advanced semiconductors for AI applications, has vocally opposed the U.S. export controls, saying that they would merely force China to develop its own chip ecosystem instead of building around U.S. standards. Nvidia was told earlier this year that it could no longer sell its H20 chip to China, a restriction that the company said this week would cause it to miss out on about $8 billion in sales in the current quarter. The H20 chip was specifically designed by Nvidia to comply with 2022 restrictions, but the Trump administration said in April that the company needed an export license. Nvidia said it was left with $4.5 billion in inventory it couldn't reuse. "The U.S. has based its policy on the assumption that China cannot make AI chips," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told investors on the company's earnings call. "That assumption was always questionable, and now it's clearly wrong." The Trump administration did rescind an expansive chip export control rule that was implemented by the Biden administration called the "AI diffusion rule," which would have placed export caps on most countries. A new and simpler rule is expected in the coming months.
Yahoo
29-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Trump administration orders some US companies to halt sales to China
The Trump administration has effectively cut off some American companies from selling software used to design semiconductors to China, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. Impacted companies include Cadence, Synopsys and Siemens EDA, according to the FT's reporting, which cited people familiar with the matter. CNN was not immediately able to confirm that. The three companies didn't return requests for comment. The New York Times subsequently reported on Wednesday that sales to China of jet engine technology and certain chemicals were also halted. The Commerce Department told CNN on Wednesday it is 'reviewing exports of strategic significance to China.' 'In some cases, Commerce has suspended existing export licenses or imposed additional license requirements while the review is pending,' a spokesperson told CNN. However, they didn't respond to CNN's inquiry regarding which companies that included. The move could be the latest blow in an ongoing trade war between the world's two biggest economies. While that trade war is ostensibly on pause while the US and China continue to negotiate a trade deal, the Commerce Department's actions underscore the acrimony between the two nations and the challenges in keeping the peace. The pause came after Chinese government officials and Trump administration officials met in Geneva earlier this month. The US lowered tariffs on products from China to a minimum of 30% from 145%. Meanwhile, China lowered tariffs on American goods to a minimum of 10% from 125%. The truce is set to expire in August and is intended to give both countries more time to negotiate a potentially longer-term trade deal. However, either country could raise tariff rates again and throw the relationship back into turmoil. Liu Pengyu, a spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in the US, declined to comment on the Commerce Department's latest actions. However, he said in a statement provided to CNN that 'China firmly opposes the US's overstretching the concept of national security, abusing export controls, and maliciously blocking and suppressing China.' 'China will keep a close eye on relevant developments, and take resolute measures to firmly defend the legitimate and lawful rights and interests of Chinese companies,' he added. This story has been updated with additional context and developments.
Yahoo
29-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Trump administration orders some US companies to halt sales to China
The Trump administration has effectively cut off some American companies from selling software used to design semiconductors to China, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. Impacted companies include Cadence, Synopsys and Siemens EDA, according to the FT's reporting, which cited people familiar with the matter. CNN was not immediately able to confirm that. The three companies didn't return requests for comment. The New York Times subsequently reported on Wednesday that sales to China of jet engine technology and certain chemicals were also halted. The Commerce Department told CNN on Wednesday it is 'reviewing exports of strategic significance to China.' 'In some cases, Commerce has suspended existing export licenses or imposed additional license requirements while the review is pending,' a spokesperson told CNN. However, they didn't respond to CNN's inquiry regarding which companies that included. The move could be the latest blow in an ongoing trade war between the world's two biggest economies. While that trade war is ostensibly on pause while the US and China continue to negotiate a trade deal, the Commerce Department's actions underscore the acrimony between the two nations and the challenges in keeping the peace. The pause came after Chinese government officials and Trump administration officials met in Geneva earlier this month. The US lowered tariffs on products from China to a minimum of 30% from 145%. Meanwhile, China lowered tariffs on American goods to a minimum of 10% from 125%. The truce is set to expire in August and is intended to give both countries more time to negotiate a potentially longer-term trade deal. However, either country could raise tariff rates again and throw the relationship back into turmoil. Liu Pengyu, a spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in the US, declined to comment on the Commerce Department's latest actions. However, he said in a statement provided to CNN that 'China firmly opposes the US's overstretching the concept of national security, abusing export controls, and maliciously blocking and suppressing China.' 'China will keep a close eye on relevant developments, and take resolute measures to firmly defend the legitimate and lawful rights and interests of Chinese companies,' he added. This story has been updated with additional context and developments.
Irish Times
28-04-2025
- Politics
- Irish Times
‘Corrosive and dishonest': Investigation exposes China's oppression of its emigrants
This article is part of the China Targets project, an investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) involving 42 media partners, including The Irish Times, into transnational oppression by Chinese authorities. See also: An intimidated Chinese citizen in Ireland and Exerting control from a nondesctipt office on Capel Street . One hundred and five people in 23 countries outside China who said they were targeted by the Chinese authorities over recent years were interviewed as part of the China Targets project, an investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) involving 42 media partners, including The Irish Times, into transnational oppression. Half of the people interviewed for the project, which is focused on China, said family members in that country had been intimidated or interrogated by the police or state security officials. Several said the intimidation began just hours after they had taken part in protests or public events in their host countries that the Beijing regime did not approve of. Sixty of the interviewees – many of whom did not want to be identified – believed they had been followed or were surveilled in their adopted countries, and 19 said they had received suspicious emails or experienced hacking attempts. READ MORE The interviewees included Chinese and Hong Kong political dissidents as well as members of the Uyghur and Tibetan communities. Liu Pengyu, spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in Washington DC, told the ICIJ in a statement that allegations against China of transnational repression were 'groundless' and 'fabricated by a handful of countries and organisations to slander China'. 'There is no such thing as 'reaching beyond borders' to target so-called dissidents and overseas Chinese,' he said. The Palais des Nations, which houses the United Nations in Geneva. Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Geneva The China Targets investigation was told by human rights activists and lawyers based in Geneva, where the headquarters of a number of UN bodies including the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights are based, that they believed they were being surveilled, harassed or intimidated by people they believed were Chinese diplomats or Government proxies, including delegates from non-governmental organisations (NGOs). The UN grants thousands of NGOs consultative status, which carries certain privileges, on the expectation that they act without government interference. But an ICIJ analysis of 106 such NGOs from mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan found that 59 were closely connected to the Chinese government or the Chinese Communist Party. 'It's corrosive. It's dishonest. It's subversive,' said Michèle Taylor, who served as US ambassador to the Human Rights Council from 2022 until earlier this year. China-backed groups 'are masquerading as NGOs' as part of a broader effort by Beijing 'to obfuscate their own human rights violations and reshape the narrative around China's actions and culpabilities,' she told the ICIJ. The Chinese government stands alone in the seriousness of the threat it poses to the global human rights system, said Kenneth Roth, who ran Human Rights Watch for nearly 30 years. 'To deter condemnation of its severe repression, foremost its mass detention of Uyghurs, Beijing has proposed to rewrite international human rights law,' he said. Liu, the spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in Washington, DC, did not directly respond to questions about Beijing's deployment of NGOs at the UN in Geneva. Instead, Lui wrote in an email to the ICIJ that China had contributed 'constructively to global human rights governance'. [ China says 'politically motivated' US and EU sanctions are damaging Uyghur minority, as trade drops dramatically Opens in new window ] 'At the international level, China has put forward a series of proposals at the UN Human Rights Council on promoting human rights through co-operation and development, and on advancing economic, social, cultural rights as well as the rights of specific groups,' he wrote. Interpol headquarters in Lyons, France. Photograph: Olivier Chassingnole/AFP/Getty Interpol The China Targets investigation found evidence that China is abusing Interpol, the international network for facilitating worldwide police co-operation and crime control. The ICIJ and media partners found China was pursuing dissidents, powerful business figures and Uyghur rights activists using the Interpol system, in apparent violation of the organisation's rules. Many targets of the Chinese security services only found out they were the subject of Interpol red notices – requests for someone's arrest pending extradition – when they were stopped at border controls at countries that act on the basis of notices issued at the request of the Chinese police. Ireland does not have an extradition treaty with China. It suspended its extradition treaty arrangements with Hong Kong in 2020 following the Beijing regime's crackdown on political freedoms in the former British colony that year. Taoiseach Micheál Martin with Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi at Government Buildings in Dublin in February. Photograph: Stephen Collins/Collins Photos Protests outside China During at least seven of the 31 overseas visits of Chinese president Xi Jinping between 2019 and 2024, local law enforcement infringed on protesters' rights so as to shield the Chinese leader from expressions of opposition, including by detaining or arresting activists, the China Targets investigation found. The Xi visits where the ICIJ investigation found local law enforcement interfering with the right to protest were: France (twice), India, Nepal, Kazakhstan, Thailand, and Serbia. [ Government urged to raise Uyghurs with visiting Chinese foreign minister Opens in new window ] In February, when the Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi, visited Ireland and met Taoiseach Micheál Martin, An Garda Síochána did not interfere with the small group of Uyghur protesters who gathered outside the gates of Government Buildings on Upper Merrion Street, or the small number of protesters from the Falun Gong religious group who gathered on the pavement opposite the gates. However, when the line of cars carrying the visiting Chinese minister and his entourage were leaving, a number of Garda vehicles pulled up alongside the Falun Gong protesters opposite the gates so the anti-Chinese Communist Party banners they were holding could not be seen by the Chinese leader as he was being driven away. (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists/Colm Keena)
