Nvidia CEO meets DeepSeek’s founder in Beijing as U.S.-China tariff tensions stir new concerns over AI tech cooperation.

The chipmaker is caught in the middle of the U.S.-China trade war and exposed to the tit-for-tat tariffs and other retaliatory measures.

The head of US chipmaking giant Nvidia has travelled to Beijing amid the ongoing trade conflict between the United States and China, Chinese state media reported on Thursday. The surprise visit by Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang highlighted the importance of China as a market for the California-based company,

China has appointed a new trade negotiator in the midst of its tariff fight with the United States as the world’s two largest economies steadily increase tariffs on each other’s goods.

China's commerce ministry on Thursday urged the United States to stop putting "extreme pressure" on the world's second-largest economy and demanded respect in any trade talks, but the two sides remained at an impasse over who should start those talks.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wants trading partners to limit China’s involvement in their economies in exchange for concessions on reciprocal tariffs.