New Zealand's foreign minister said he had raised concerns over China's recent live-fire drills in the Tasman Sea during meetings with Chinese leaders on Wednesday.

New Zealand’s foreign minister is meeting senior officials in China just days after New Zealand and Australia said that Chinese warships should have given more warning before live-fire exercises in wa

Tensions are rising between New Zealand and China after a Cook Islands-China multilateral agreement and Chinese live-fire exercises in the Tasman Sea located between Australia and New Zealand. Australia National University's Graeme Smith joins TaiwanPlus to discuss New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters visit to Beijing.

The Trump administration is planning to toughen semiconductor restrictions on China, continuing and expanding the Biden administration's efforts to limit Beijing's technological prowess, Bloomberg News reported on Monday.

Donald Trump’s administration is sketching out tougher versions of US semiconductor curbs and pressuring key allies to escalate their restrictions on China’s chip industry, an early indication the new US president plans to expand efforts that began under Joe Biden to limit Beijing’s technological prowess.

The Trump administration aims to enhance semiconductor restrictions on China, building on Biden's measures to limit Beijing's tech growth. Discussions with Japan and the Netherlands focus on restricting engineers from servicing semiconductor equipment in China.