China’s largest and most advanced aircraft carrier has entered service, Chinese state media said, in a major step for the world’s largest navy.

Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof said China has agreed to resume deliveries of Nexperia chips from plants in the country, signaling a potential breakthrough in a clash that risked disrupting global auto production.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent highlights South Carolina's rare earth facility as economic win, creating jobs and cutting costs under President Donald Trump.

The Chinese government followed through on promises it made publicly after a recent summit, but has not yet taken other actions sought by the White House.

The coming-together of China’s enormous manufacturing capacity and its ravenous appetite for copious, cheap, domestically produced electricity deserves to be seen in a similar world-changing light. They have made China a new type of superpower: one which deploys clean electricity on a planetary scale.

We don’t expect any demand from China to return to the U.S. market with this change,’ said one trader at an international trading company. ‘Brazil is cheaper than the United States and even non-Chinese buyers are taking Brazilian cargoes.

Marvin Yoder, who farms more than 2,000 acres of corn and soybeans in Jacksonville, Ill., said the Trump administration’s recent trade deal with China may help farmers’ finances in the short term, but it won’t solve the bigger issue: Brazil.

At their meeting in South Korea in late October, Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to lower tariffs.