Alice Huang, the Chinese tech executive accused of having an affair with Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang while allegedly spying for Beijing, has ties to Hong Kong dating back about two decades – and a web of business links in the city, the South China Morning Post has found. Huang, also known as Huang Le, first set foot in the city 20 years ago to study. Two decades on, company records show she continues to have links to the city, including as a director of a firm that shares an address with a...

Chinese luxury electric vehicle (EV) brand Maextro is moving closer to a tie-up with Italian marque Maserati, which would result in co-developed models intended to challenge the likes of BMW and Mercedes-Benz globally, according to industry sources. Maextro, backed by technology giant Huawei Technologies, aimed to enlist Maserati’s design capabilities, styling and brand awareness to develop electric cars that could woo wealthy consumers, said two sources with knowledge of the matter. The...

A soldier guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier issued a verbal reprimand to a group of advisers and staff with Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth following a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. Video shows Hegseth taking photos on the empty steps in front of the tomb with his wife, Jennifer, chief of staff Ricky Buria, deputy chief of staff Patrick Weaver and senior adviser Tami Radabaugh. As the group broke from taking photos, a loud laugh could be heard, and the soldier...

China pledged on Wednesday to stand by Cuba against sanctions and foreign interference, days after Washington penalised two Chinese state-linked firms for allegedly supplying the Cuban military. Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Cuban counterpart Bruno Rodriguez in Beijing that China would firmly support Cuba in safeguarding its sovereignty and opposing sanctions, blockades and foreign interference, regardless of how the international situation changed. The ministry’s readout said Rodriguez...

With domestic profits narrowing and production capacity expanding, China’s firms are continuing to widen their overseas footprints in search of new, more lucrative markets. In this series, we examine China Inc.’s next phase of “going global” and the complex, challenging international environment its companies have chosen to enter. On a weekday afternoon, the basement food hall of a central shopping centre was packed. Office workers queued for Chongqing noodles, while a different noodle joint...

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit is set to take place in Shenzhen on November 18 and 19. Shenzhen will also be playing host to the first of two further meetings between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump this year. When the two leaders met in May and September, they called for “constructive strategic stability” as a prescription for US-China relations. Both sides are keen to maintain the fragile detente, in part due to domestic considerations. Beijing wants to...

Joe Biden says he did not know he had cancer while he was US president and would not have sought a second term if he already had been diagnosed. The former Democratic president’s comments came in an interview with People magazine before the release of his White House memoir on Tuesday. “If I had known that I was feeling lousy because I had cancer,” said Biden, who turns 84 on November 20, “I would’ve not gone forward” with a 2024 re-election bid that ended after a disastrous debate performance...