China waged a campaign of harassment and intimidation directed at a UK university to get it to shut down sensitive research into alleged human rights abuses, documents seen by the BBC show. Sheffield Hallam University staff in China were threatened by individuals described by them as being from China's National Security Service who demanded the research being done in Sheffield be halted. And access to the university's websites from China was blocked, impeding its ability to recruit Chinese students, in a campaign of threats and intimidation lasting more than two years. In an internal email from July 2024, university officials said attempting to retain the business in China and publication of the research are now untenable bedfellows. When the UK government learned of the case, the then Foreign Secretary David Lammy issued a warning to his Chinese counterpart that it would not tolerate attempts to suppress academic freedoms at UK universities, the BBC understands.

Former Foreign Service officer advocates for social media vetting of visa applicants, explaining how AI could enhance screening to identify anti-American sentiments.

Top US and Chinese officials are meeting in London in a bid to defuse trade tensions over rare earth minerals and advanced technology after a phone call between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping last week. The two sides are aiming in Monday's talks to build on a preliminary trade deal struck in Geneva in May, which briefly lowered the temperature between Washington and Beijing and offered relief for investors battered by months of Trump's global trade war. Since then, the agreement to mutually suspend most of the 100 percent-plus tariffs for 90 days has been followed by barbs and accusations from both sides. But after reaching a tentative understanding with Xi on resuming the flow of critical minerals, Trump said on Thursday that he expected Monday's meeting to go "very well". The US delegation in London is headed by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer.

Around midnight on April 16, 2025, after Chen Zimo learned that the Department of Homeland Security had threatened to revoke Harvard University's certification to enroll international students, he began communicating with a trusted source about possible legal scenarios. Chen, a Chinese citizen, still needed a number of courses before he could complete his degree in computer science at Harvard, and he felt panicked about the possibility of having his visa revoked. For him, the Harvard experience had been transformative. Chen--not his real name--had grown up in provincial China, where his family had modest resources and sent him to public schools. He could never have afforded Harvard without the university's generous financial support, and he had also received funding for summer language study.

Republican South Dakota Sen. Mike Rounds spoke to Fox News Digital about the U.S.' efforts to remain the world's economic and military leader as China makes technological advances. SIMI VALLEY, CALIFORNIA – China's rampant theft of intellectual property from American institutions and industry must be thwarted as the U.S. battles to remain the world's economic and military leader – but America cannot completely decouple from the economic behemoth, Republican South Dakota Sen. Mike Rounds told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview. The key, according to Rounds, is maintaining China as a key trade partner without giving them access to America's technology, including artificial intelligence and computer chips. "In doing so, maybe we'll restrict their ability to actually be able to have a market that they can create their own stuff with. And in using ours, they'll be our standards," Rounds told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library during the Reagan National Economic Forum on Friday in California.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio's salvo against Chinese students, promising to "aggressively revoke" their visas, is the latest move in heightening tensions between the world's two largest economies. Despite a temporary tariff truce reached between them earlier this month, divisions between Washington and Beijing remain wide, with recent ruptures over higher education, artificial intelligence (AI) chips and rare earth minerals. Here's all we know about how relations between China and the United States are worsening despite diplomatic efforts. A US-China trade spat escalated after Trump's administration raised tariffs on Chinese goods to 145 percent earlier this year, with cumulative US duties on some Chinese goods reaching a staggering 245 percent. Under an agreement reached on May 12 following two days of trade talks in Geneva, tariffs on both sides were dropped by 115 percentage points for 90 days, during which time negotiators hope to secure a longer-term agreement.

Programming skills are rapidly becoming essential for many educational paths and career opportunities. Yet, for many international students, the traditional approach to teaching introductory programming courses can be a significant challenge due to the complexities of the language, the lack of prior programming knowledge, and the language and cultural barriers. This study explores how large language models and gamification can scaffold coding learning and increase Chinese students sense of belonging in introductory programming courses. In this project, a gamification intelligent tutoring system was developed to adapt to Chinese international students learning needs and provides scaffolding to support their success in introductory computer programming courses.

Kai-Fu Lee, a prominent investor and entrepreneur based in Beijing, has been talking up China's artificial intelligence potential for a while. Now he's got a message for the United States. The real threat to American preeminence in AI isn't China's rise, he says--it's the US government's complacency. Lee is well placed to understand the issue, even if he isn't altogether unbiased. He worked on machine learning at Carnegie Mellon University during the 1980s, led Microsoft's research lab in China in the 1990s, and then spearheaded Google's venture into China in the 2000s.

Baidu President Zhang Yaqin said, "AI could mean China leading the world" at the GMIC Beijing tech conference that had been opened with physicist Stephen Hawking's portentous predictions for the technology. "The first major advantage is the quantity of data China has for AI to use," said Zhang participating in the Leadership in the Artificial Intelligence Era panel. "The second advantage for AI innovation is the same as for any technology – talent… If you look back over the last ten years, the quantity of Chinese AI researchers, whether in China or overseas, has begun to exceed that of other countries, passing the US in 2014. So the overall quantity is already large and we're already seeing a series of world-class AI applications, including at Baidu. We're seeing a merging of these two advantages – big data and high-quality talent which, in the field of AI, put China in such a good position globally."