China has territorial disputes with the Philippines, which has signed a security treaty with Washington that comes with mutual defense commitments.

"Our job—where we can'is to provide Latin America with a choice," a U.K. government minister said on Thursday.

Beijing has never fully co-operated with international investigators, impeding the search for a definitive answer. But scientists continue their quest to establish the causes of a global health crisis that killed millions of people, caused trillions of dollars of economic damage and increased fears over the risks of virus research.

China offered deep condolences over the Washington air disaster, the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a post on Friday on its official website.

On the campaign trail last year, President Donald Trump talked tough about imposing tariffs as high as 60% on Chinese goods and threatened to renew the trade war with China that he launched during his first term.

Mobileye Global forecast fiscal 2025 revenue below Wall Street expectations on Thursday, anticipating fewer shipments of its assisted driving technology to China, sending its shares down more than 12% in premarket trading.

When Apple reported its December quarter earnings on Thursday, it revealed that China sales had dropped 11.1% on an annual basis. Cook told analysts that over half of the decline was due to inventory issues.

Wall Street ended up on relief Meta and Microsoft kept their AI spending plans even amid mixed earnings. Next up, Apple earnings.

It was the latest thaw in relations between the two countries, whose troops were involved in deadly skirmishes high in the Himalayas in 2020.

U.S. companies were spooked when the Chinese startup released models said to match or outperform leading American ones at a fraction of the cost.