ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he will speak to Chinese President Xi Jinping about Nvidia's state-of-the-art Blackwell artificial intelligence chip at their expected meeting on Thursday. Sales of the U.S. firm's high-end AI chips to China have been a key sticking point in protracted trade talks between the world's two largest economies this...

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE, Oct 29 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he will speak to Chinese President Xi Jinping about Nvidia's ( NVDA ) state-of-the-art Blackwell artificial intelligence chip at their expected meeting on Thursday. Sales of the U.S. firm's high-end AI chips to China have been a key sticking point in protracted trade talks between...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -Malaysia will maintain a ban on the export of raw rare earths to protect its domestic resources, despite signing a critical minerals deal with the United States this week, the trade minister said on Wednesday.  Speaking in parliament, Minister Tengku Zafrul Aziz dismissed allegations that Malaysia will allow the export of critical minerals and rare earths to...

AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) -President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he expects to reduce U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods in exchange for Beijing's commitment to curb exports of fentanyl precursor chemicals. Early this year Trump imposed 20% tariffs on Chinese imports over what he described as Beijing's failure to curb the flow of precursor chemicals used in the production of...