My colleagues and I just published a new report on U.S.-China AI competition, taking a holistic view of AI leadership. We argue that the competition is about more than who has the best models and chips. It's a contest of energy, data, talent, capital, industrial capacity, diffusion, and national resilience. The U.S. remains ahead in frontier model development and advanced compute deployment, but China's deep bench of AI engineers, low-cost models, control over critical nodes in the hardware supply chain, vast energy infrastructure, and aggressive push to diffuse AI make it a formidable competitor.

Philippines protests China's sanctions on Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. as "an unfriendly act" apnews.com/article/philippin…

Hong Kong customs swoop ahead of the World Cup, seizing $20M in fake goods apnews.com/article/fake-jers…

Hua Ni, China's giant panda at Everland in South Korea, gave birth to a healthy female cub​ (170g) on Jun 3. This is her 4th cub​ since the China–South Korea conservation partnership began in 2016, and the first panda born overseas in 2026.

Great having Penn students led by @NeysunM on @Tsinghua_Uni campus! After chatting online since Feb, they just finished a 5-day immersive exchange with our students. Glad I got to join them for a quick tour of the Old Summer Palace.

Photos show the aftermath of an earthquake in the southern Philippines apnews.com/photo-gallery/pho…

US journalist pleads guilty to acting as an illegal agent for China. By @tangdidi apnews.com/article/china-ill…

USTR announces the forced-labor tariffs on imports. A 12.5% additional tariff would be imposed on China, Japan, India, South Korea, Brazil and Switzerland and dozens of other countries.

In advance of @POTUS' historic summit with President Xi in Beijing, I will depart on Monday for a quick series of meetings in both Japan and South Korea. On Tuesday, I will meet in Tokyo with Prime Minister @takaichi_sanae, Finance Minister @satsukikatayama, and other government and private sector representatives for discussions on the U.S.-Japan economic relationship. On Wednesday, I will stop in Seoul for a discussion with Vice Premier He Lifeng of China, before continuing on to Beijing for the Leaders’ Summit between President Trump and President Xi. Economic security is national security, and I look forward to a productive series of engagements as we work to advance President Trump’s America First Economic Agenda.

Xu Zewei (徐泽伟), 34, of the People’s Republic of China was extradited to the United States this weekend and appeared today in U.S. District Court in Houston on a nine-count indictment related to his involvement in computer intrusions between February 2020 and June 2021. 🔗: justice.gov/opa/pr/prolific-…

Former Hawaii Gov. George Ariyoshi, who was the first Asian American governor in the US, has died at 100 apnews.com/article/hawaii-go…

“President Xi is very happy that the Strait of Hormuz is open and/or rapidly opening. Our meeting in China will be a special one and, potentially, Historic. I look forward to being with President Xi — Much will be accomplished!” - President DONALD J. TRUMP

China says 20 scholars en route to a conference were denied entry at the Seattle airport. It urges its citizens to avoid the airport apnews.com/article/china-sch…

Nǐ hǎo, China! 🇨🇳✈️ We're launching five new destinations across mainland China from October 2026 onwards - Shanghai Pudong, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Shenzhen and Guangzhou. Together with our daily Beijing service, that's 35 weekly flights across six destinations. Fly direct on board the Etihad 787-9 Dreamliner and explore China's major commercial and cultural hubs. Book now at etihad.com #Etihad #BeyondBorders

An open source website on the Chinese Communist Party elite, with data visualizations. Every Central Committee (4,324), Politburo (168), and PBSC member from 1945–Present. All data available for download, as promised. Link and some standout charts below🧵

A man who fled to China after leaving an explosive device outside MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa has been indicted on federal charges. A prosecutor said they have no immediate evidence that Alen Zheng was working on behalf of the Chinese government apnews.com/article/explosive…

AP is calling Israel's attack on Lebanon an invasion. What does that mean and why does it matter? apnews.com/article/iran-leba…

China kept adding clean energy at a brisk pace in Jan-Feb 2026, with 32GW of solar, 11GW wind and 1.2GW nuclear added. Solar slowed down compared to the frantic pace of the past two years but wind made a new record. The real eye-popper however is coal&gas capacity additions..!