China reporting here spans party and state policy, tech and industrial strategy, security flashpoints in Asia, and markets when mainland China is the core subject of the story.
11 NewsTenet stories on China, published from 2026-05-15 through 2026-05-18. Most of this coverage sits in Business, Politics, World, and Science. Newest first below.
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Business
Financial Times–sourced reporting summarized in trade press puts the China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund in talks to anchor a maiden external round for the Hangzhou lab, with Tencent and Alibaba still circling co-investor slots while Reuters-style wires floated a higher $50 billion ceiling.
6 min read
Science
The Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer is booked to lift on a Vega-C from French Guiana on 19 May 2026, carrying European and Chinese instruments into a long polar ellipse so researchers can link what the Sun throws at the magnetosphere with what the auroral ionosphere does in reply.
7 min read
Politics
President Donald Trump told reporters he would decide on a stalled roughly $14 billion arms package “over the next fairly short period,” after Xi Jinping warned mishandling Taiwan could bring the powers into conflict—while Washington and Taipei each insisted broader policy had not flipped overnight.
7 min read
Business
A White House fact sheet framed new agricultural purchase targets and joint trade and investment boards as the centerpiece of the Beijing meetings, while Beijing’s commerce ministry called tariff moves preliminary and still under negotiation.
6 min read
World
Xinhua copy carried by RTHK pins the shock to Liunan District minutes after midnight Monday local time, eight kilometers down—while wider Chinese authority briefings cited by Indian wire aggregators add the five-figure precautionary evacuations, four hospitalizations, and cracked or partly collapsed older buildings.
5 min read
World
Beijing announced a May 19–20 state visit for the Russian president—Xi and Li Qiang on the schedule, a joint declaration, and Russia–China “years of education”—immediately after Donald Trump’s May 13–15 Beijing summit, the first bilateral U.S. presidential visit to China in roughly nine years.
11 min read
Business
Beijing’s commerce ministry described new U.S.–China farm understandings as preliminary but pointed to reciprocal tariff reductions, beef-plant registrations, and a path to ease poultry and non-tariff hurdles.
7 min read
Politics
From tariffs and grocery bills to chips, travel risk, and how long ‘big purchase’ pledges take to prove out—plain answers to the questions people search after a superpower meeting.
9 min read
Business
Following a high-stakes summit in Beijing, the President claims massive aircraft and agricultural purchases while markets remain skeptical of the lack of formal documentation.
6 min read
Politics
From massive commodity purchases to the 'red lines' on technology, the Beijing summit of 2026 has reshaped the landscape of the world's most critical bilateral relationship.
7 min read