The Trump administration, believing China will struggle to change its stance over trade, plans to hammer home the idea that it wants strong commitments.
China has a long history of arresting or holding foreigners for mysterious reasons, often in a tit-for-tat play to put pressure on overseas rivals.
The assertion was China’s first official comment on the detention of Michael Kovrig, a former Canadian diplomat now working for a nongovernmental organization.
The plan, contained in draft defense guidelines approved by the government’s governing parties, comes as China is exerting increased military strength.
Michael Kovrig was detained less than a week after Canada announced the arrest of a senior Chinese tech executive, Meng Wanzhou.
Representing clients who face penalties from Washington is a lucrative new niche, especially for lobbyists who have links to the president or his administration.
On the second day of a bail hearing for Meng Wanzhou, a top Huawei executive who is accused of fraud, her lawyers laid out the reasons she was not a flight risk.
Chinese tech entrepreneurs are rethinking their business trips and their American ties. They could instead be valuable allies in the drive to bring more freedom to China.
China can do more. The planet depends on it.
The decision is the latest turn in a broad legal battle between the companies. But they disagreed about its impact on iPhone sales in China.
Worries about global economic growth, trade and the strength of corporate America have been battering stocks. While that’s cause for concern, it is important to put slides like this in context.
Worries about global economic growth, trade and the strength of corporate America have been battering stocks. While that’s cause for concern, it is important to put slides like this in context.
The detention of one of China’s most prominent pastors and over 100 congregants signals the government’s growing crackdown on unofficial worship.
The presidents of the United States and China call a (temporary) truce.
Lu Guang’s images have shown the world China’s dark side.
Chinese start-ups raised more cash than Silicon Valley counterparts in the first half of 2018. That’s unlikely to last, and a downturn could produce casualties.
There’s still plenty of confusion over the U.S.-China trade truce, but the Chinese appear to be making some concessions.
Uncertainty over the stability of a trade war truce between Washington and Beijing has renewed investor worries about global growth prospects.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned Moscow that it had 60 days to stop violating the landmark Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
Trump blinked on trade with China — and it was the right thing to do. Just ask the markets.
It’s just two days since President Trump and President Xi Jinping of China announced a reconciliation. But what promises were made remains far from clear
Many in the United States believed that capitalism would never work without political freedom. Then China began to rise.
China is investing in quantum encryption that could be far tougher to crack than today’s security methods. Now the United States is trying to catch up.
The Trump administration said China had agreed to make the potent drug a controlled substance, a move that would have major implications for America’s opioid crisis.
With details scant and officials in both countries mum on the issue of American-made autos, industry experts were left guessing as to what the president meant.
There’s still plenty that can go wrong even now the U.S. and China have called a temporary trade truce.
But the compromise reached by President Trump and President Xi Jinping offers few promises of policy changes, and it sets a tight deadline of March 1.
The independence agenda crashes and burns.
Hengdian World Studios, in a small town in central China, churns out scores of movies and television series from each period in the country’s history.
Two of the biggest airports in the world — Istanbul and Beijing — aim to make travel easier and faster for the passengers who use them.
In a meeting with President Xi Jinping of China, President Trump agreed to hold off on a plan to raise tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods on Jan. 1.
Michael Pillsbury, the president’s top outside adviser on China, has the president’s ear ahead of negotiations with Xi Jinping.
In Argentina, President Trump has a chance to confront Xi Jinping on human rights abuses against the Uighurs.
The social media company is facing plenty of issues. Kevin Roose wonders how many of its executives understand that Facebook has more than just a P.R. crisis.
On the sidelines of the Group of 20 meeting in Buenos Aires, President Trump and President Xi Jinping of China will sit down to a vitally important meal.
He Jiankui’s claim to have edited babies’ genes has caused soul-searching in China, where many believe scientists need more ethical supervision.
And what he finds is disturbing.
Rising tariffs could lead Chinese buyers to look for alternatives to American products. But Australia could suffer if the conflict slows China’s growth.
Not the false version offered by the current president.
Officials said it appeared that He Jiankui’s work had broken Chinese law. Scores of scientists have called his conduct unethical.
Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first tout as countries of the future.
From planning to harvest, the grain belt’s rhythms and prospects have been disrupted by the government’s tariff battle with China.
China’s practice of breaking into American computers has become a core grievance of the Trump administration as leaders of the two nations prepare to meet.
And Representative Ro Khanna on the future of the Democratic Party
American accusations of economic espionage by China could shape negotiations over a trade deal.
The Chinese government has a long history of using technology to control and manipulate reproduction.
Chinese investors have come to expect that Beijing will step in to help any bank when troubles mount. That may not remain the case.
Repression by the Communist Party stems from an old Chinese belief that it’s the state’s role to set citizens straight.
The Trump administration has granted nearly 3,000 exemption requests, surprising even some companies that are asking for them.
The scientist, He Jiankui, said at a conference on Wednesday that his actions were safe and ethical. Some of his colleagues seemed unconvinced.
The announcement came a day after Papua New Guinea said it would uphold a deal with Huawei, illustrating the growing global divide over the risks of Chinese technology.
The president has signaled a new willingness to make a deal with Xi Jinping, a leader he has treated solicitously. They will meet over dinner on Saturday.
Fire engulfed dozens of trucks near the plant in Hebei Province after a blast that could be heard more than a mile away. The cause was unclear.
An experiment in China to alter the genomes of embryos in vitro, then implant them in the mother, is a step too far.
Beijing keeps making inroads abroad by exploiting the main weakness of open societies: openness itself.
Many business figures join the organization out of expedience. Likewise, the party sees benefits in associating itself with capitalist success stories.
Will the growing interest in traditional Chinese medicine — at home and abroad — doom some of the world’s rarest species?
Traveling Gansu Province along the ancient Silk Road, our columnist gets by with a little help from her friends.
The researcher, He Jiankui, offered no evidence or data to back up his assertions. If true, some fear the feat could open the door to “designer babies.”
The West was sure the Chinese approach would not work. It just had to wait. It’s still waiting.
The votes may not have turned out the way the governing party wanted, but the referendums themselves served a larger purpose in staving off Beijing’s territorial claim.
If China is the Saudi Arabia of data, its data factories are the refineries, turning raw data into the fuel that can power China’s goal of A.I. supremacy.
And leaves America in the dust.
The Chinese police are barring Victor and Cynthia Liu from leaving China in an effort to force their father to return. U.S. officials object to the growing practice of an “exit ban.”
Often born in rural China, the children of North Korean defectors find they are not welcome in South Korea, where they face language barriers and abuse.
How the nation wrote its own playbook to beat the West at its own game of economic growth.
A Q. and A. with our managing editor, Joe Kahn, about the China Rules series.
Coal, the most polluting of energy sources, shows no sign of disappearing three years after the Paris agreement, when world leaders promised decisive action against global warming.
Built in just five years, Beijing’s new airport will be one of the world’s largest. But it might not have been needed if the military hadn’t claimed most of China’s airspace.
A new series explores China’s transformation into an economic powerhouse, and how the country’s dramatic rise is reshaping the world.
Sierra Leone canceled a $300 million airport loan. Then its president changed his tone. Across the continent, Beijing’s money often proves irresistible.
Racism and arrogance about China has imperiled the brand.
Since the world’s longest sea bridge opened last month, a deluge of shoppers from mainland China has had a once-quiet suburb up in arms.
Employing American football and chest-thumping chants, Tang Haiyan offers an answer to a country that worries that its sons are too coddled and feminine. “We will never cultivate sissies,” he says.
This week’s Australia Letter rounds up nine can’t-miss journalistic surprises, from suggestions for holiday shopping to an argument Australia is wealthy, but second-rate.
After Jiang Jinfu acknowledged that he’d beaten Haruka Nakaura, a Japanese model, not all the reaction on social media was negative.
Officials are increasingly concerned that Beijing’s efforts to influence local elections now include a Russia-style misinformation campaign.
A movement to revive ancient Chinese clothing now has up to a million followers and government blessing. But the fashion can veer into ethnic chauvinism among China’s dominant Han majority.
Two adults and 16 children were also injured in the crash. The driver of the car was later arrested after fleeing the scene.
The competition has echoes of the Cold War, as Washington and Beijing each try to foster diplomatic alliances and economic deals to freeze out the other.
The Italian luxury brand said its Instagram accounts had been hacked after racist messages purportedly from one of its designers were made public. But some in China aren’t buying that.
Despite his tough talk, President Trump has not fundamentally altered America’s approach to trade. But that could change, and future increases in tariffs could be very costly to the United States.
Our new series, China Rules, shows how a country mired in poverty beat the odds and managed to become the most powerful modern rival to the United States.
Russia has tried to use Interpol to silence critics, and rights groups fear increased Kremlin influence. American and European officials are trying to block a Russian presidency.
President Xi Jinping arrived in Manila amid growing concern that the Philippines’ conciliatory approach to China has backfired.
Analysts had worried that China might use Disney’s $71.3 billion deal to buy most of 21st Century Fox as a weapon in a trade war with the United States.
A dispute over trade language meant that members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum failed to issue a joint document for the first time.
A renewed power play by Mahinda Rajapaksa, who ran the country for a decade, has reignited fears of majoritarianism and trouble for the minorities.
The novelist, known as Tianyi, faces more than a decade in jail, prompting many to criticize the government for going too far in its efforts to block obscene material.
中國的崛起速度之快，以至於在這裡，人們改善生活的機會遠遠超過美國。調查顯示，在這個政治受到威權嚴格限制的國家，生活著世界上對前景最樂觀的居民。
中国的崛起速度之快，以至于在这里，人们改善生活的机会远远超过美国。调查显示，在这个政治受到威权严格限制的国家，生活着世界上对前景最乐观的居民。
Western money has been pouring into the country this fall. But is the lure of its billions of buyers masking what could be trouble ahead?
Shopping areas in Asia are about the experience, not just the retail sale.
Beijing’s political red lines here keep shifting — but always in the direction of more repression.
The agency is holding its first general assembly since its president, Meng Hongwei, was detained by China on charges of taking bribes and other crimes.
Imagine two poor 18-year-olds, one in the U.S., the other in China. Who has a better chance of success? Are you sure?
The internet was supposed to set the world free. But China likes its walled-off and censored version just fine.
The United States and China may be on a collision course yet their presidents each underestimate the pain the other could inflict.
The sharp rhetoric at the APEC conference came as President Trump prepared to meet with the Chinese leader at the Group of 20 summit meeting in Argentina amid a trade war.
A bucolic corner of Hong Kong attracts bird-watchers and bicyclists eager to escape the crowds. But the area is increasingly attractive to developers.
New rules in Hangzhou also banned large breeds and led to the confiscation of unlicensed dogs.
In an apparent gesture of good will, the North said it would release the man, who it said entered the country illegally a month ago.
In China, local share owners simply expect returns and information on which to judge sustainability is scarce. So impact investment remains a luxury.
The Putian network of 8,000 facilities, which expanded rapidly with little government oversight, is facing national outrage and scrutiny over a death and fraud allegations.
Legislators have introduced bipartisan bills that urge the Trump administration to impose economic sanctions and take other measures to defend Uighurs.
Trump administration officials are anxious about Beijing’s efforts to assert dominance over Taiwan, the South China Sea and far Pacific islands. They say the U.S. needs to push back.
Strained forces, budget shortfalls and political dysfunction have cast doubt on the Pentagon’s shift in focus from terrorism to global powers — and President Trump’s support for a strong military.
Human rights officials and experts condemned regulations on Chinese re-education camps as a violation of international law and criminalized basic rights.
Both sides need to be smart and honest about how the countries became economic successes.
The state of Victoria signed on with China’s Belt and Road initiative at a time when intelligence officials are concerned about Beijing’s influence.
The State Council said in a rare concession that it had decided to postpone an order to undo a 25-year prohibition on the trade.