"DeepSeek complements, rather than competes against, existing AI leaders like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind," the Chinese embassy said.

China pushed back against recent remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, declaring that Washington could never "sow discord" in its ties with Moscow. Newsweek reached out to the White House and the Russian Foreign Ministry via email for comment.

Sergei Shoigu, the secretary of Russia's Security Council, has held talks in Beijing with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Russia's Interfax news agency reported on Friday.

China’s sputtering economy has seen green shoots of recovery after aggressive stimulus late last year but markets will be closely watching the annual National People’s Congress meeting for signs of what Beijing is planning.

A snowy paradise turns out to be a flimsy illusion, with cotton sheets and foam taking the place of actual snow—prompting refunds and an investigation.

Taiwan and China have also traded barbs this week over the severing of an undersea communications cable off the Beijing-claimed island’s southwest coast.

The service area spans key regions within the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area, including high-speed railway stations. GXR is also approved for commercial operations on highways, including routes to and from Beijing Daxing International Airport.

Unlike Nixon and Kissinger’s gambit in the 1970s, the strategy threatens to divide the West.

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton is set to close its Beijing office, as major U.S. law firms continue to scale back in the Chinese legal market.

China has accused the Trump administration of “serious regression” in its position on Taiwan, after the State Department removed a line from its website stating that the US does not support Taiwan independence.

China’s Communist Party has a history of purging then welcoming back senior officials. Deng Xiaoping was purged three times before leading the country out of Maoism in the late 1970s. Some cadres are welcomed back years after their death.