Ahead of a meeting with President Trump, China’s leader signaled that he is committed to competing in manufacturing and technology despite tensions with Washington.

The tech rivalry with the U.S. has made China take an unusual step: It is accelerating the pace at which startups go public in hopes of increasing investment in the tech sector. In recent months, securities regulators in China approved the public listings of two chip designers,

Robert Lighthizer, the architect of President Donald Trump’s trade war in his first term, called on the US to maintain “substantial” tariffs on China, even as the world’s two biggest economies appear to have a deal that includes a rollback of some duties.

China recently announced that it was putting new controls on the export of rare earth elements, sparking a new round in the country's ongoing trade war with the US.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Friday he hoped the company's state-of-the-art Blackwell chips can be sold in China, although the decision needed to be made by U.S. President Donald Trump.

BEIJING -- BEIJING (AP) — China will focus on speeding up self-reliance in science and tech in new five-year economic plan.