China said on Friday it would take "all necessary measures" in response to the United States announcing it was considering restrictions on commercial Chinese drones for national security reasons.

China and the United States have agreed to maintain communication and manage differences during the presidential transition process in the White House, and to continue stabilizing bilateral economic ties, as stated on Tuesday during a video call between Vice-Premier He Lifeng and US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.

The United States on Friday slapped sanctions on a Beijing-based hacking outfit with links to the Chinese government, accusing it of targeting "critical" US government infrastructure.

With the potential for further tariff escalations under returning president Donald Trump, the United States' largest port complex found itself awash in goods from China in December as importers rushed to beat Trump's January 20 inauguration.

The conclusion comes after the FBI accused Integrity Technology Group of hacking into hundreds of thousands of U.S. devices, per court documents.

By putting 10 United States entities on its Unreliable Entity List and 28 US entities on its Export Control List on Thursday, the first work day of the new year, Beijing is not only responding to the most recent arms sales to Taiwan and the probe into China's conventional semiconductor sector that the Joe Biden administration announced late last month,

The sanctions come a few days after Treasury reported that Chinese hackers remotely accessed several U.S. Treasury Department workstations and unclassified documents in a major cybersecurity incident.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury on Friday sanctioned a Beijing-based cybersecurity company for its alleged role in multiple hacking incidents targeting critical U.S. infrastructure.

R. Nicholas Burns, the top U.S. diplomat in Beijing, says the Biden administration is making a final push to urge China to reconsider its tilt toward Russia, Iran and North Korea.

Asia can teach the world about adapting to Trump.

"We now have credible reports that China's communist rulers are supplying arms to the Houthi Islamists in Yemen supported by the Islamic Republic of Iran," explained Clifford D. May, founder and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in a post earlier this month.