At the Tokyo International Film Festival's TIFFCOM market, the launch of the Blue Book of China Film 2025 – jointly edited by Peking University's Chen Xuguang and Zhejiang University's Fan Zhizhong – framed Chinese cinema at a crossroads between crisis and renewal.

Shifting from the "world factory" to a tech innovation hub, China is accelerating the development of new quality productive forces to forge a new growth path amid a more complex global landscape. The world's second-largest economy has recently unveiled a pivotal document outlining priorities for its 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030),

Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Friday that walking with China means walking with opportunities, believing in China means believing in tomorrow, and investing in China means investing in the future.

The negotiations offer an occasion to stop to consider how China went from technological backwater to superpower in less than half a lifetime, and an opportunity for the United States to learn from that success.

What’s more, whatever Trump’s new deal with China entails, it won’t reverse his administration’s dismantling of American investments in clean energy, supply chain resilience and industrial competitiveness. Instead, China will be left to continue its dominance over the production of the technologies that will define the world’s future.

President Trump told reporters as he flew into Japan that he expects to have a trade agreement with China finalized by the end of his tour of Asia.

Britain’s reliance on China to reach net zero poses a risk to security, Labour has been warned. The Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) said in a report that dangers would be “hardwired” into major infrastructure if Britain relied on Chinese technology to reach Labour’s clean energy targets.

Today he’s resolved little more than a crisis of his own making. What might he trade away later for such negligible gains?

China's Quest to Engineer the Future," said intense competition has helped drive China's success in solar and EVs.