Tech
Apple says iPhone 17 is its most popular lineup ever
The iPhone 17 family drove Apple to record quarterly revenue of $111.2 billion, though supply constraints limited sales of the A19 chip-powered lineup.
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China
China reporting here spans party and state policy, tech and industrial strategy, security flashpoints in Asia, and markets when mainland China—not only Greater China headlines—is the core subject.
26 Newsorga stories on China, published from 2026-05-05 through 2026-05-21. Most of this coverage sits in World, Business, Politics, Technology, and Tech. Newest first below.
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World
Trump and Xi to meet in Beijing: The key issues shaping the China summit
With Chinese state media confirming a May 13–15, 2026 state visit by U.S. President Donald Trump, the Xi Jinping meeting will sit atop parallel ministerial trade talks in Seoul, unfinished implementation from last autumn’s Busan truce, and acute geopolitical stress over the Middle East and Taiwan—this guide separates what is on the public record from what remains negotiation space.
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World
Trump turns Taiwan arms sales into bargaining chip with China
As Donald Trump flew to meet Xi Jinping in Beijing in May 2026, the president openly said he would discuss U.S. arms sales to Taiwan—adding that Xi “would like us not to”—while a roughly $14 billion package remained in limbo and bipartisan senators warned that American support for Taiwan must not be traded away.
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Politics
Trump set for Beijing state visit May 13–15 with Xi; U.S. CEOs expected on trip
President Donald Trump plans to meet Xi Jinping in Beijing on a state visit from May 13 through May 15, 2026, after earlier delay talk around the widening Iran conflict. Elon Musk, Tim Cook, and other chief executives appear on advance guest lists, but tariffs, export controls, oil sanctions, and paperwork for aircraft and chips will decide whether the visit changes facts on the ground.
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Politics
Arcadia Mayor Wang charged as Chinese foreign agent, resigns from office
Arcadia Mayor Eileen Wang resigned after federal charges accused her of acting as an illegal agent for the People’s Republic of China. The charges, linked to her activities before taking office, involve promoting pro-Beijing propaganda through a purported news website and coordinating with PRC officials. She has agreed to plead guilty to the felony count.
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Health
Russia's EnteroMix and China's approval rumour: what's true, what isn't
Multiple media outlets reported in early May 2026 that China is preparing to approve Russia's experimental cancer vaccine EnteroMix, but the claim sits on top of a stack of public confusion — there are three distinct Russian cancer-vaccine programmes (EnteroMix, a separate personalized mRNA vaccine being developed by the National Medical Research Radiological Center and Gamaleya Center, and the Federal Medical and Biological Agency's FMBA colorectal-cancer vaccine that head Veronika Skvortsova said on TASS in September 2025 was 'ready for clinical use'); EnteroMix specifically is an oncolytic virotherapy using four live replication-competent enteroviruses (Coxsackievirus A21, Echovirus 7, Enterovirus B75 and a Sabin-derived PV-Russo poliovirus modification) administered intravenously — not an mRNA vaccine despite widespread mislabelling — and it remains in Phase I human clinical trials that began with 48 volunteers in June 2025 and are scheduled to run until October 2026, with no peer-reviewed publications, no listing in ClinicalTrials.gov or other international registries, no public release of full viral genome sequences as required under WHO Global Polio Eradication Initiative protocols, and no official public confirmation of approval or even formal evaluation from China's National Medical Products Administration.
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Business
British Steel heading back to the state: first nationalisation since 1988
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced on Monday, May 11, 2026 that the UK government will introduce legislation this week to give ministers the power, subject to a public-interest test, to take full national ownership of British Steel, ending a 13-month 'halfway house' under which the state has held operational control of the Scunthorpe plant — the country's only remaining virgin steelmaker, with two blast furnaces dating back to Victorian times — while Chinese parent Jingye Group has retained economic ownership; the move follows the collapse of compensation talks in which Jingye originally demanded more than £1 billion for its stake and rejected a UK offer 'worth tens of millions' in March, and arrives against running losses of more than £1 million a day at Scunthorpe, the idling of the 'Queen Anne' blast furnace since the start of April, and the broader recognition in Whitehall that 'no commercial sale' is available — making this the first time British Steel will sit in government ownership since its 1988 privatisation under the Thatcher administration.
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World
Iran says Araghchi visit to BRICS foreign ministers' meeting in Delhi 'on the agenda' but Deputy FM Gharibabadi expected to lead delegation as Hormuz safe-passage talks take centre stage
Iran has informed India that Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi's attendance at the May 14-15, 2026 BRICS Foreign Ministers' Meeting in New Delhi is 'on his agenda at this stage,' the Times of India reported, although subsequent reporting from The Print on May 7 and the Economic Times on May 11 indicates Araghchi is now considered unlikely to travel — with Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi expected to lead the Iranian delegation instead — as Tehran weighs the fragility of the US-Iran ceasefire from the late-February-to-early-April war, studies a 14-point US peace proposal routed via Pakistan that would freeze its uranium enrichment for at least 12 years, and prepares for the first face-to-face encounter between Iranian, Emirati and Saudi Arabian senior diplomats since the conflict began; the meeting, chaired by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar under India's 2026 BRICS presidency, will see Hormuz safe-passage talks for 40-50 trapped India-bound tankers held on the sidelines and is a key staging post for the 18th BRICS Summit Delhi is expected to host in September 2026.
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Markets
Oil rallies and gold slides as Trump's 'totally unacceptable' rejection of Iran pushes Brent past $105 and WTI to $100, with Netanyahu, drone strikes near Qatar and a $4 prompt backwardation backing the move
Updated May 11, 2026: Brent crude extended its rally to $105.55 a barrel at 0626 GMT — up 4.2% from the $101.29 Friday close — and US West Texas Intermediate briefly crossed $100 to $100.06, up 4.9%, after President Donald Trump's Sunday-afternoon Truth Social rejection of Iran's 14-point peace proposal as 'totally unacceptable,' according to Anadolu Agency and NDTV Profit, while Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu told CBS that the war 'is not over' until Iran's enriched uranium is removed and a weekend drone strike briefly set a cargo vessel ablaze off Qatar; spot gold slipped 1% to $4,669.82 an ounce by 06:35 GMT on the same news flow, unwinding the prior week's 2% gain as the US dollar firmed (DXY +0.2%) after Friday's strong April payrolls pushed the Fed rate-cut path out, with a Goldman Sachs survey now showing most respondents expect Strait of Hormuz disruption to last well into the second half of the year and Aramco CEO Amin Nasser warning markets may not fully normalise until 2027.
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World
China confirms Trump's May 13-15 Beijing visit as MFA messaging stresses equality, respect and mutual benefit with the US
Chinese state media reported Monday May 11, 2026 that U.S. President Donald Trump will pay a state visit to China from May 13 to 15 at President Xi Jinping's invitation; ahead of the summit, Beijing's public vocabulary on ties with Washington continues to pair cooperation with difference-management, including Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun's March formulation that economic issues should be settled through consultation on the basis of equality, respect and mutual benefit, and Xi's February phone remark that if both sides work in the spirit of equality, respect and mutual benefit they can find ways to address concerns while enhancing dialogue and expanding practical cooperation.
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World
Netanyahu's 60 Minutes interview with Major Garrett: full timeline, controversies and what was actually said
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu sat down on Saturday with CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett for a 60 Minutes interview that aired Sunday, May 10, 2026 — his first U.S. broadcast since the U.S.-Israel-Iran war began on February 28, 2026 and now in its 11th week — and used the on-camera time to call the Iran war 'not over' until enriched uranium is physically removed from Iranian soil, to confirm Donald Trump told him 'I want to go in there', to reject parts of a New York Times account of a February 11 Situation Room conversation, to announce a decade-long plan to draw U.S. military aid down to 'zero' from the current $3.8 billion a year, to attribute Israel's reputational decline (Pew now puts unfavorable U.S. views of Israel at 60 percent, up nearly 20 points in four years) almost entirely to social media as the 'eighth front' of the war, and to push back on a personal characterisation he said reduces him to a man with a 'hunger for conflict'.
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Business
390 new billionaires on Forbes 2026 list: Beyoncé, Dr. Dre, Federer, Surya Midha and the 86 AI fortunes behind it
The Forbes 40th annual World's Billionaires List, published March 10, 2026 using net worth figures as of March 1, 2026, recorded a record 3,428 billionaires worldwide and 390 newcomers — the second-best year for billionaire creation after 2021's 493 — with combined wealth jumping four trillion dollars to a record $20.1 trillion; the newcomer class is collectively worth $755 billion at an average of $1.9 billion per person, hails from 40 countries and territories, and is led by 38-year-old Surge AI founder Edwin Chen at $18 billion, while 22-year-old Mercor cofounder Surya Midha becomes the youngest self-made billionaire ever to make the list, AI accounts for 42 of the 390 new fortunes, and the celebrity entrants include Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Dr. Dre, Roger Federer, Berkshire Hathaway chief executive Greg Abel and Elon Musk's younger brother Kimbal.
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Technology
Verne's Zagreb robotaxi service one month in: 10 Pony.ai cars, 4,000 waitlist, €1.99 a ride
Croatia's Verne, the autonomous-mobility spin-out of hypercar maker Rimac, has been running what it calls Europe's first commercial robotaxi service in Zagreb since April 8, 2026 — a fleet of 10 Arcfox Alpha T5 electric vehicles fitted with Pony.ai's seventh-generation autonomous-driving system, booked through the Verne app and soon through Uber, with safety operators still behind the wheel and a stated target of fully driverless rides by the end of the year subject to Croatian regulatory approval.
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Business
He Lifeng to meet Bessent in Seoul on May 12-13 as China and the US test their post-Busan trade truce
China's Ministry of Commerce confirmed Vice Premier He Lifeng will lead a delegation to South Korea on May 12-13, 2026 for economic and trade talks with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, framed as follow-up to the consensus Xi Jinping and Donald Trump reached at Busan last October.
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Business
Is China the best place to open a business? A global comparator on ease, wages, talent, and ecosystems
There is no universal “best jurisdiction”: capital-light SaaS, capital-heavy factories, tariff-facing exports, R&D-heavy biotech, and brand-led consumer plays optimise for different chokepoints—supply depth, contract enforcement, labour-productivity-adjusted hourly cost, market adjacency, and geopolitical exposure. This briefing frames China honestly against Singapore, India, Southeast Asia, Mexico, Gulf hubs, Europe, and the United States, anchored to evolving global benchmarks—including the World Bank’s Business Ready (B-READY) agenda that replaced legacy Ease of Doing Business narratives.
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World
UK summons Chinese ambassador after national security convictions linked to Hong Kong
London told Beijing’s envoy the espionage verdicts against two dual nationals crossed a sovereignty red line; ministers framed transnational pressure on dissidents as intolerable while Chinese diplomats dismissed the trial as lawfare.
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World
China gives suspended death sentences to two former defense ministers
A military court sentenced Wei Fenghe and Li Shangfu to death with a two-year reprieve after bribery convictions, state media reported—marking a rare public finale for two former State Council ministers caught in Xi Jinping’s military anti-corruption wave.
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World
China confirms attack on oil tanker near Strait of Hormuz earlier this week: what Beijing said and what is still open
Beijing’s foreign ministry acknowledged that a Marshall Islands–flagged products tanker with Chinese nationals aboard was attacked as Gulf shipping remains under stress from the wider conflict. Here is the official wording, the timeline press reports sketch, and the gaps in public identification.
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Technology
Jensen Huang on Nvidia and China chips: zero share, export politics, and where Blackwell fits
Nvidia’s CEO has spent 2026 making a two-track argument: revive compliant sales into China where policy allows, while insisting Beijing should not get America’s “latest and greatest” AI silicon. Here is how those statements line up—and what they imply for Hopper-class shipments versus Blackwell and Rubin.
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World
China sentences two former defense ministers for corruption: death with reprieve explained
Former Chinese defense ministers Wei Fenghe and Li Shangfu have been given death sentences with a two-year reprieve in military court corruption cases, marking one of the strongest public punishments in Beijing's military anti-graft drive.
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World
China rolls out J-35AE stealth jet: detailed technical breakdown of what is known and what is still classified
Beijing's export-focused J-35AE rollout has reignited comparisons with the F-35 class, but many internal details remain opaque. This report separates confirmed features from informed estimates across sensors, propulsion, weapons architecture, and mission systems.
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World
U.S. imposes sanctions on Chinese refineries; China responds with anti-sanctions measures
Washington’s refinery-related sanctions and Beijing’s legal-political countermeasures have opened a new pressure front in U.S.-China economic confrontation, with potential spillovers into oil flows, shipping finance, and compliance risk.
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World
Official statements from major nations after a reported Strait of Hormuz attack
Governments from Washington to New Delhi issued carefully worded statements after reports of an attack near the Strait of Hormuz, balancing condemnation, legal caution, and urgent calls to protect shipping.
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World
China still supplying drone-linked factories in Iran and Russia despite U.S. sanctions? China and U.S. perspectives explained
Sanctions pressure has not fully stopped dual-use supply flows linked to drone production. The dispute is now as much about legal framing and enforcement limits as it is about shipments themselves.
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World
Explosion at Chinese fireworks factory: death toll, what is known, and why heat is worsening fire risk worldwide
A major blast at a fireworks plant in Liuyang, Hunan, has triggered a large rescue and national-level investigation. This report explains what officials have said so far, how rising temperatures increase fire danger, what La Nina and El Nino do to regional fire weather, and which similar disasters the world has seen before.
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World
China Eastern MU5735 crash report: where the investigation stands, aircraft model details, and safety record context
Four years after China Eastern Flight MU5735 crashed in Guangxi, killing 132 people, no final public report has been released. Here is the current status, what is known about the Boeing 737-800 involved, and the historical safety context for both the airline and the aircraft type.
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