The US president had strong words for Russia, Israel and China. How did his address go down there?

Despite tightened controls on shipments of advanced AI chips and semiconductor tools to China from U.S. companies, one of the country’s top technology manufacturers was reportedly able to use U.S. technology to make a breakthrough chip last year.

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After Novo Nordisk’s blockbuster weight loss drug Wegovy made its debut in Asia by launching in Japan last month, the pharma company says it now expects the drug to be approved in Chinathis year.

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In recent years, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has shown an impatient determination to resolve Taiwan’s status in a way his predecessors never did. He has ordered a meteoric military buildup, instructing Chinese forces to give him by 2027 a full range of options for unifying Taiwan. These signals are triggering debate in Washington and elsewhere about whether Taiwan is strategically and economically important enough to merit protection through the most challenging of contingencies. But make no mistake: whether one cares about the future of democracy in Asia or prefers to ponder only the cold math of realpolitik, Taiwan’s fate matters.