” PEACEFUL” Uranium Program Gharibabadi, in turn, hailed the” constructive” talks in Beijing. ” The Iranian nuclear programme is quiet in nature”, he said. ” Our nuclear program has never been diverted to non-peaceful functions”, Gharibabadi said. ” But however, some countries are trying to make an unnecessary problems inContinue Reading
BEIJING: China called on Thursday ( Mar 13 ) for a “diplomatic” resolution to the Iran nuclear issue as it prepared to host diplomats from Tehran and Moscow for talks. The United States withdrew from a location offer, which had imposed restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program in return for sanctionsContinue Reading
BEIJING: China said on Wednesday ( Mar 12 ) it would take” all necessary measures” to protect its interests in response to new US tariffs of 25 per cent on steel and aluminium imports. ” China has always believed that corporatism offers no way out and that there are noContinue Reading
BEIJING: China warned Britain on Tuesday ( Mar 11 ) against “provoking tensions” in the South China Sea after its foreign minister David Lammy called Beijing’s actions in the disputed waters “dangerous and destabilising”. In a video largely filmed alongside a vehicle belonging to the Philippine Coast Guard, Lammy onContinue Reading
US REQUIRES” Very HIGH” Lai claimed on Thursday that the government was not under any pressure from Washington “during TSMC’s US investment method.” Wei claimed that TSMC’s expansion was fueled by growing US client demand and that it would not have an impact on the business ‘ investments in Taiwan.Continue Reading
Taiwan’s Defense Minister Wellington Koo said in response to concerns about US protection commitments to Taiwan that the United States cannot leave the Indo-Pacific because the area is one of its” key national interests.” At a time when China is putting more military pressure on the political area, the WhiteContinue Reading
SEEOUL: A US Navy airplane carrier’s visit to the South Korean harbor of Busan has caused the country to be condemned as “political and military provocations” by North Korea. Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of Kim Jong Un, made the statement, which was released on Tuesday ( Mar 4Continue Reading
BEIJING: Chinese authorities are instructing the country’s top artificial intelligence entrepreneurs and researchers to avoid travel to the United States, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Friday (Feb 28), citing people familiar with the matter.
The authorities are concerned that Chinese AI experts travelling abroad could divulge confidential information about the nation’s progress, the newspaper said.
Authorities also fear that executives could be detained and used as a bargaining chip in US-China negotiations, the Journal said, drawing parallels to the detention of a Huawei executive in Canada at Washington’s request during the first Trump administration.
The White House and China’s State Council Information Office did not immediately respond to requests from Reuters for comment.
Executives at leading Chinese companies in AI and other strategically sensitive industries, such as robotics, are being discouraged from traveling to the US and its allies unless absolutely necessary, the WSJ report said.
Executives who choose to travel are instructed to report their plans before leaving and, upon returning, to brief authorities on what they did and whom they met, the report said.
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng declined an invitation to attend an AI summit in Paris in February, according to the report. Another founder of a major Chinese AI startup cancelled a planned US trip last year following instructions from Beijing, the Journal added.
US and China are locked in a global AI race, with DeepSeek recently launching AI models that it claims rival or surpass US industry leaders like OpenAI and Google, at significantly lower cost.
In February, President Xi Jinping held a rare meeting with some of the biggest names in China’s technology sector, urging them to “show their talent” and be confident in the power of China’s model and market.
China criticized President Donald Trump’s latest threat to impose an additional 10 % duty on Chinese imports over deadly drug flows into the US on Friday ( Feb 28 ). The White House accused the White House of” shifting the blame” and taking steps to destabilize global supply chains. TrumpContinue Reading
Beijing alleged on Friday ( Feb. 28 ) that the United States was “acting under [the president’s ] threat to impose an additional 10 % duty on imports from China,” citing the continued flow of fentanyl into the nation. The start of Beijing’s annual parliamentary meet, a set-piece political eventContinue Reading