中国驻美大使呼吁“回归理性”
2025-10-17
| Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng urged Washington to "return to reason" and "stop applying maximum pressure" on China, warning that "a trade war serves no one's interest in the end." He said China is not looking for a fight but won't stand by idly if its national interests are threatened, and he called on the US to resolve differences through negotiation and not go down the "old path" of escalating tensions.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration said it will urge allies in Europe and Asia to decouple their supply chains from China as quickly as possible, with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent calling Beijing an "unreliable" trading partner. The rhetoric is the latest US salvo against China's announced tightening of export controls on rare earth minerals critical to industrial production. "China's actions have once again demonstrated the risk of being dependent on them," Bessent said. "This is China versus the world." |
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特朗普将赴匈牙利会晤普京
2025-10-17
| US President Donald Trump said he will meet Vladimir Putin in Budapest to discuss the war in Ukraine after a more than two-hour phone call initiated by the Russian president, but no date was given. The announcement came a day before Trump is due to meet Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House. Plans for the meeting in Hungary come two months after a summit between Trump and Putin in Alaska produced no momentum toward a negotiated end to the war. Trump, fresh from success brokering a ceasefire in Gaza, has recently hinted the US may supply Ukraine with Tomahawk long-range missiles, which have the capability of striking Moscow.
US efforts to force Russia to the negotiating table by curtailing global purchases of its oil and gas that it says finance the war gained support after the UK added Chinese refiner Yulong Petrochemical and Shandong port operators Jingang, Baogang International and Haixin to its sanctions list. In China, the world's largest buyer of Russian energy, the Foreign Ministry condemned London's action, saying Beijing "firmly opposes unilateral sanctions." The US earlier this year slapped a punitive tariff on India, the second-largest buyer of Russian oil. On Thursday, Trump said Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi told him oil purchases will cease, but New Delhi said it isn't aware of the conversation. |
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《台积电受益AI芯片需求创下利润新高
2025-10-17
| Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp (TSMC), the world's largest contract chipmaker, reported net profit in the third quarter increased 39 percent from a year earlier to a record T$452.3 billion (US$15.1 billion), beating analysts' forecasts. Revenue rose 10 percent to T$990 billion. The company, whose customers include Nvidia and Apple, said chips for artificial intelligence and 5G telecommunications comprised 57 percent of revenue. TSMC raised its revenue forecast for the full year after reporting profit in the first nine months surged 52 percent to T$1.21 trillion on a 36 percent increase in revenue to T$2.76 trillion. The company's shares in New York initially rose but closed lower as a wave of concern over the China-US trade war washed over markets. | |
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广交会聚焦科技亮点开幕
2025-10-16
| The 138th Canton Fair, now formally known as the China Import and Export Fair, opened in the southern city of Guangzhou, with more than 32,000 companies participating and the accent on advanced technologies. It is the oldest and largest exhibition of its kind in China. This year's highlights include the debut of a zone dedicated to smart health care, bringing together 47 companies specializing in surgical robots, intelligent monitoring systems and wearable medical devices. A separate zone on robotics will return, with 46 exhibits ranging from the latest humanoid robots to robotic dogs. Intelligent transformation with feature 18 exhibition sections focusing on smart technologies and showcasing more than 350,000 products. A section dedicated to green technologies will feature energy storage systems and advances in hydrogen energy, with more than 1 million low-carbon products on exhibit. The fair will run through November 4. | |
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中美就船舶与大豆问题交锋
2025-10-15
| China added five US subsidiaries of South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean to its sanctions list over their alleged involvement in Washington's probe into the Chinese shipping industry, the Commerce Ministry said in a statement.
The sanctions took effect on Tuesday, the same day as Washington and China rolled out tit-for-tat port fees on one another's owned, operated or built ships docking at their ports. President Donald Trump has stated his ambition to curb China's global dominance in shipping. China holds a 53 percent market share in shipbuilding, followed by South Korea. The US accounts for only about 0.1 percent. Bilateral quarrels also extended to agriculture on Tuesday as Trump lashed out again at China's shift in soybean purchases this year to South American from US farmers, calling the snub "economically hostile." In turn, Trump said, the US may terminate all imports of cooking oil from China. |
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裂缝危及加沙脆弱停火
2025-10-15
| Israel said it will restrict flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza until all 28 bodies of hostages who died in captivity there are returned. So far, eight remains have been returned, along with all 20 living hostages. Hamas, which earlier said some hostage bodies may be buried under rubble from Israeli bombing, has requested heavy machinery to help in search and recovery efforts. The White House also ramped up pressure on Hamas, with President Donald Trump saying, "If they don't disarm, we will disarm them." Since Israeli troops began withdrawing from Gaza City under the ceasefire agreement, Hamas has killed at least 33 members of rival gangs and suspected Israeli collaborators, Reuters reported. | |
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Nexperia遭出口禁令打击，股价持续下挫
2025-10-15
| Netherland-based chipmaker Nexperia, a subsidiary of China's Wingtech, said on Tuesday that the Chinese government banned it from exporting goods from China four days after Dutch authorities seized temporary control of the company, citing management concerns. In its first statement since the Dutch takeover on September 30, Nexperia said it is seeking an exemption from China's countermeasure. The Dutch complaint against Nexperia apparently revolves around alleged improprieties by Zhang Xuezheng, Wingtech founder and Nexperia executive director. But analysts said the Dutch action may also be related to the parent company's presence on a US trade blacklist in a long-arm extension of the US-China trade war. Once part of Dutch electronics firm Philips, Nexperia was acquired by Wingtech in 2018 for US$3.6 billion. Wingtech's Shanghai-listed shares have plunged 10 percent each of the past two days. | |
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狂欢中的"新黎明"：前路仍存变数
2025-10-14
| Hamas handed over the remaining 20 living Israeli hostages, Israel released 250 Palestinian prisoners and 1,700 Gaza detainees, world leaders signed a Gaza ceasefire deal at a summit in Egypt, aid trucks began rolling back into Gaza, and US President Donald Trump hailed a new dawn in the Middle East. October 13 was, by all accounts, a day for the history books. What happens next, after what Trump called the "long, painful nightmare," will determine whether the momentum toward permanent peace endures. Trump's 20-point peace plan, without details, calls for a transitional international body to take over governance of Gaza and for the territory, which lies in ruins after two years of Israeli bombardment, to be rebuilt. Israel's commitment to the ceasefire is predicated on Hamas disarming, which remains unresolved. And the ultimate goal of many – a Palestinian state alongside Israel – remains as elusive as ever. | |
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Markets Rise as US Tariff Threat Viewed as Negotiating Bluff
市场上涨：美关税威胁被视为谈判虚招
2025-10-14
| Global investors generally dismissed a spat between China and the US as negotiation posturing, with stocks in Europe and the US rebounding from Friday losses. President Donald Trump roiled markets at the end of last week with the announcement of new 100 percent tariffs on China, drawing a stark rebuke from a defiant Beijing. Trump appeared to backpedal a bit, posting online: "Don't worry about China; it will all be fine." The Nasdaq rose 2.2 percent, and the Stoxx600 in Europe gained 0.4 percent. Although stock markets in Asia fell in tandem with Friday's losses on Wall Street, they generally ended off session lows. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index performed best, closing the day with only a 0.2 decline. Cryptocurrencies staged a comeback from a Friday nosedive. Gold and silver rose to record highs, indicating residual economic jitters. | |
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苹果将开启iPhone Air预订
2025-10-14
| Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook on a Monday visit to Shanghai told a Douyin livestream event that the new iPhone Air will begin pre-orders in China on October 17. Following government approval, China Mobile on Monday announced that subscriber reservations for the e-sim card required to activate iPhone Air began. While in the city, Cook also visited the 10th anniversary exhibition of Pop Mart's Labubu collectible toys.
Apple reported that third-quarter sales of iPhone on the Chinese mainland rose 4 percent from a year earlier, largely on government subsidies on purchases of upgraded electronics and on a strong sales start for the new iPhone 16. However, the US company still faces stiff competition from domestic Chinese mobile phone companies. Vivo on Monday launched its new X300 series phones, with rivals Honor and Oppo scheduled for launches later this week. |
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