If the meeting is postponed, it could signal to investors that the war will drag on longer than expected

Trump asked to postpone meeting with Xi Jinping over war. How does this threaten stocks?

Micron Technology, Inc.

Hua Hong Semiconductor Limited

JD.com, Inc.

Amazon.com, Inc.

Dubai has suspended operations at its main international airport after a drone strike caused a fire at a fuel tank near the terminal. US President Donald Trump said he is "demanding" that other countries contribute to the defense of the Strait of Hormuz. China's Hua Hong has developed 7nm chip manufacturing technology with Huawei, becoming the second company in the country after SMIC with such capabilities. These and other topics are in our review of key events on the morning of March 16.

Main by morning: Dubai airport halted operations, Trump awaits help in defending the strait

Knowledge Atlas Technology Joint Stock Company Limited

Minimax-wp

Alibaba Group Holding Limited

Tencent Holdings Limited

Baidu, Inc.

SenseTime Group Inc.

iFLYTEK CO.,LTD

A few years ago, the actions of Chinese AI developers were perceived as an attempt to catch up with American competitors. But now it is already a separate center of power: according to the latest data from Stanford University, China <a href="https://hai.stanford.edu/assets/files/hai_ai_index_report_2025.pdf">ranks</a> first in terms of the citation rate of AI publications. Beijing's official goal is to <a href="https://www.morganstanley.com/insights/articles/china-ai-becoming-global-leader">become the</a> world leader in AI by 2030. Roman Lukyanchikov, analyst at Freedom Broker, has written about how investors can bet on the growth of the Chinese AI sector.

China wants to become a leader in AI and is willing to spend billions. How to capitalize on it

Any war in the Middle East is usually perceived as a global risk for the economy. Oil rises, logistics become more expensive, and markets get nervous. But if you look more closely, this turbulence has beneficiaries. One of them is China.

How China is tacitly benefiting from the Gulf War

JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd.

The yuan, PRC bonds and Chinese stock markets have been more stable than Western and Asian peers amid the Middle East conflict

Safe haven: Chinese assets outperform global markets on resilience amid war

KazMunayGas

KazTransOil

The war in the Middle East has led to a sharp rise in energy prices in the world. Olga Moshkina, Junior Director for Corporate Ratings at Expert RA Agency, argues whether this conflict is beneficial for Kazakhstan's economy, which depends on oil revenues.

War in the Middle East: Can Kazakhstan capitalize on it?

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

SK hynix Inc.

Amid an explosive rally in oil prices on the morning of Monday, March 9, the MSCI Asia-Pacific index collapsed 5.6 percent, the steepest decline since April, Bloomberg <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-08/oil-tops-100-as-war-rages-stocks-set-to-fall-markets-wrap">calculated. </a>

Stocks in Asia collapse after explosive rise in oil prices

By the end of the first week of the large-scale operation of the U.S. and Israel against Iran, the best dynamics in Asia were demonstrated by the Chinese markets, Bloomberg <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-06/chinese-markets-weather-iran-war-turmoil-better-than-asian-peers">noted</a>. Shares of Chinese companies traded on the domestic market (Shanghai Shenzhen CSI 300 index), during this time lost only about 1%, while in other Asian markets the decline <a href="https://oninvest.com/article/u-akcij-azii-hudsaa-nedela-za-6-let-u-nefti-rekord-s-2022-go-7-den-vojny-v-irane">exceeded</a> 6%, writes Bloomberg.

'Investor safe haven': China's markets fared best in Asia after a week of war in Iran

AIA Group Limited

XPeng Inc.

According to the Nikkei consensus forecast, China's real GDP is expected to grow by 4.5% in 2026

China has lowered its GDP growth target to a historic low. Why is this good for stocks?

NVIDIA Corporation

Broadcom Inc.

OpenAI has increased annual revenue to more than $25 billion and is expanding aggressively in the enterprise market, competing with Anthropic and Google. Broadcom expects AI chip sales to exceed $100 billion by 2027. On these and other topics - in our review of key events by the morning of March 5.

Highlights for this morning: new Anthropic and Pentagon talks, $25 billion in OpenAI revenue

Chinese stocks may rise by 20% as rising inflation expectations lead to better corporate earnings, according to analysts at UBS Securities Asia. Their opinion is <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-26/ubs-sees-20-upside-for-china-stocks-on-reflationary-potential">published by</a> Bloomberg.

UBS expects Chinese stocks to rise 20%. What can push the market?

Knowledge Atlas, known as Zhipu, is <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/37c91e08-d13a-45a7-a3a7-acb43fa5522e">called the</a> Chinese equivalent of OpenAI. In January 2026, it went public, and its quotations rose more than five times the IPO price. What an investor should know about it, wrote independent analyst Mikhail Zavaraev.