In China, shares rose as a sustained strength in artificial intelligence-related stocks and state-owned enterprises stocks countered weakness elsewhere.
** China's blue-chip CSI300 Index closed up 0.3%, while the Shanghai Composite Index gained 0.5%.
** Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng Index was down 0.7%, and the China Enterprises Index lost 0.9%.
** China warned U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday
not to "repeat disastrous past mistakes" and meet Taiwan
President Tsai Ing-wen, who is visiting the United States.
** Meanwhile, U.S. President Joe Biden's administration said
on Monday it could not confirm reports that China was able to
collect real-time data from a spy balloon as it flew over
sensitive military sites earlier this year, saying analysis was
still ongoing.
** Tech stocks in Hong Kong slumped 1.6%, with
Alibaba and Meituan down 3.0% and 4.4%,
respectively.
** Shares of Chinese electric-vehicle makers traded in Hong
Kong also plunged, following a drop in Tesla shares in
the United States. Shares of Nio and XPeng declined 7.6% and 6.5%, respectively.
** In China, shares of state-owned enterprises and
semiconductor companies lent some support to the market, while
new energy-related sectors gave up some of their earlier gains.
** The China CSI AI Index jumped 2.5% to a 14-month high.
** Shares of China Railway Group Ltd and China Communications Construction Co Ltd rose to a maximum 10.0% and 9.3%, respectively.
** Shares of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp rallied 3.8% to its highest in more than a year. (Reporting by Shanghai Newsroom; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu and Uttaresh Venkateshwaran)
