Ford Motor said the costs came from its decision to make fewer electric vehicles than it had planned and more hybrids that use both gasoline engines and batteries.
People who brought their blood glucose down to a normal level had a lower risk of death from heart disease or hospitalization for heart failure after 20 years.
Heng Guan fled to the United States and released rare video evidence of China’s clampdown. His supporters say that sending him to Uganda puts him at risk.
Founded in 1990 by three M.I.T. researchers, iRobot introduced its vacuum in 2002. Its restructuring will turn the company over to its largest creditor.
Jimmy Lai, the publisher of a popular tabloid, was convicted of national security charges on Monday after spending decades supporting the city’s vanquished pro-democracy movement.
A broad measure of investment fell more than 10 percent in November, continuing a recent reversal and signaling the depth of China’s property crisis.
The Hong Kong publisher’s fate will reveal whether democracies still have the resolve to defend their own values.
He attributed his rags-to-riches ascent to the freedoms of Hong Kong, and has paid a hefty price for defending them.
Jimmy Lai, the publisher of a popular tabloid, has spent years fighting the landmark national security case brought over his support of the city’s now vanquished pro-democracy movement.
Preventing a world where dictators can attack at will requires a military that has the right tools, the right tactics and the right culture.
En los últimos años solo una parte del petróleo venezolano destinado a Cuba ha llegado realmente a la isla, según los documentos de Pdvsa y los datos de seguimiento de los buques.
For the sake of global security and freedom, the world’s democracies must collaborate better.
Beijing is pouring vast resources into fusion research, while the U.S. wants private industry to lead the way. The winner could reshape civilization.
A plutonium-packed generator disappeared on one of the world’s highest mountains in a covert mission that the U.S. will not talk about.
The seizure last month came amid fears of a renewed conflict between Iran and Israel.
Firms with ties to Cuba are getting a larger share of Venezuelan oil exports, as the island’s security agents boost President Nicolás Maduro’s defenses.
Es posible que la incautación de EE. UU. de un buque dificulte las exportaciones de petróleo de Venezuela, pero no perturbará significativamente la red de tráfico clandestino desde países sancionados.
A decade after the end of the one-child policy, China has over 30 million so-called surplus men. Can this dating boot camp help them find love?
Este año, se espera que las inversiones de China en manufacturas, infraestructuras e inmuebles disminuyan por primera vez desde finales de la década de 1980.
The U.S. seizure of a vessel off Venezuela is likely to squeeze the country’s government, but do little to counter the tankers that secretively move oil from sanctioned countries.
“I’m told that Australian teens, in preparation for this ban, have been exchanging phone numbers with each other.”
Investment in manufacturing, infrastructure and property is expected to fall this year, a remarkable turn for an economy whose growth reshaped the world.
For China, President Trump’s moves to loosen chip controls, soften U.S. rhetoric and stay silent on tensions with Japan amount to a rare string of strategic gains.
Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that would limit individual states in regulating the artificial intelligence industry.
曾创作批评文革作品的艺术家高兟2024年回中国探亲时被捕，如今在等待审判，罪名是涉嫌侵害英雄烈士名誉。他的妻儿被禁止离开中国，高兟从狱中寄出信件和手撕画作，寄托对家人的爱意和思念。
Governments are studying the decision to prohibit youths from using platforms like Facebook and TikTok as worries grow about the potential harm they cause.
Los aranceles se aplicarán a mercancías procedentes de China y otras naciones. Washington ha estado presionando a México para que deje de tratar con China.
The U.S. defense industry has lost the ability to build quickly and effectively.
Crumbling highways. A housing shortage. Broken infrastructure. America is stuck. But the pendulum may be ready to swing.
Desperate to catch up with Chinese automakers, Ford is redesigning its fleet with a Silicon Valley-style team. Is it too late?
The tariffs will apply to goods from China and other nations. Washington has been pressuring Mexico to move away from dealing with China.
Executives on a DealBook Summit task force panel said fear was not the way to build teams capable of navigating difficult times.
Caught between Beijing and the Trump administration, the International Monetary Fund offered mild criticism of China for relying too heavily on exports.
危险的建筑材料、建筑本身的设计以及一系列错误决策和偶然因素可能导致了火势以惊人速度蔓延。
The former chief executive of Nexperia, a Dutch chipmaker, said Dutch officials had known for years that the company’s Chinese owner sought to move its technology to China.
President Trump’s decision to allow Nvidia to sell its chips to China has raised questions about whether he is prioritizing short-term economic gain over long-term American security interests.
Lo que está en juego, según funcionarios de EE. UU., es la capacidad de China de utilizar tecnología estadounidense para obtener ventajas militares y económicas, especialmente mediante la IA.
Las medidas de comercio exterior del presidente Trump no han funcionado como él esperaba y se ha visto forzado a actuar para contener los daños económicos y políticos.
President Trump’s move fulfills a major goal of the chipmaker. But the move faces opposition in Washington — and uncertainty in Beijing.
El superávit comercial de China superó oficialmente el billón de dólares, un nivel que ningún país había alcanzado nunca.
President Trump said Nvidia can export some chips. But years of U.S. restrictions have propelled China to make everything it needs for advanced A.I.
En 2020, una viróloga china huyó a EE. UU., ayudada por aliados del presidente Trump que pretendían promover sus teorías no demostradas sobre los orígenes de la COVID-19. Su esposo sigue sin poder encontrarla.
The president rolled out a $12 billion bailout for farmers as he makes the case that his policy is working — or will soon.
President Trump promised struggling farmers billions in federal aid during a round-table meeting on Monday. This comes after China boycotted American farm products in retaliation for U.S. tariffs.
Approval for the H200 chip followed months of haggling between tech industry backers and defense hawks.
The nature of war has drastically changed. The editorial board argues that the U.S. must reform its military.
Chinese exports are flooding the developing world, and the social consequences are bound to be profound.
Los aranceles del presidente Trump no bastaron para frenar la avalancha exportadora mundial de China, que superó el récord del año pasado en solo 11 meses.
Nepal’s anti-graft watchdog said the state-owned Chinese firm and Nepali officials colluded to inflate the costs of an international airport in Pokhara.
Investing in the old ways of war leaves America at risk.
Do you know where your retirement savings are invested? When I looked into mine, I discovered that parts of it ran counter to U.S. foreign policy priorities.
As Gao Zhen awaits trial in China, his wife and child live in limbo, unable to return to America, sustained by the portraits he fashions from scraps of paper.
The torn pieces of paper by Gao Zhen, a renowned artist jailed in China, show family portraits, memories of New York and expressions of faith. To his wife, they are love letters.
China’s renminbi is lagging the currencies of key trading partners, making Chinese goods and services cheap and helping to drive exports.
President Trump’s tariffs weren’t enough to hold back the global export flood by China, which pushed past last year’s record in just 11 months.
“Taking children from their families is not normal,” a speaker told the crowd in Queens, where Yuanxin Zheng attended school until being detained.
The Treasury Secretary said on Sunday he recently shed his holdings to comply with his federal ethics agreement.
President Trump is shifting from discussion of the long-lasting competition among the world’s biggest economies and nuclear powers.
In 2020, a Chinese virologist fled to the United States, aided by allies of President Trump who sought to promote her unproven theories about the origins of Covid-19. Her husband still can’t find her.
Beijing disputed the accusation, the latest flare-up in a festering dispute between the two countries.
The authorities accused “some foreign media” of smearing the government’s response to a fire at a high-rise complex, saying: “Do not say you have not been warned.”
Beijing is curbing Japanese movies, music and art as it seeks to punish Tokyo for its support of Taiwan.
Una de las primeras baterías de este tipo se instaló en el desierto de Atacama hace 15 años. Ahora, con la caída de los precios, se utilizan cada vez más en todo el mundo.
Cheng Li-wun dice que Taiwán debe aceptar su legado chino para evitar la guerra. Sus críticos creen que quiere llevar la isla a la órbita de Pekín.
An early grid battery was installed in the Atacama Desert in Chile 15 years ago. Now, as prices have tumbled, they are increasingly being used around the world.
Hazardous construction materials, the buildings’ design and a series of safety failures likely enabled the blaze to spread with devastating speed.
A decade after the end of the one-child policy, China has over 30 million so-called surplus men. Can this dating boot camp help them find love?
A decade after the end of the one-child policy, China has over 30 million so-called surplus men. Can this dating boot camp help them find love?
A medida que el orden internacional de la posguerra encabezado por EE. UU. se desvanece, hay un debate sobre cuál es la versión dominante de la historia.
As President Emmanuel Macron of France visited China, its leader, Xi Jinping, said his country would play a constructive role in ending the fighting.
Personal diplomático de China pidió a funcionarios británicos y franceses que estuvieran de su lado en la división que tienen con Tokio por la disputa sobre Taiwán.
Arguments about history are proliferating as the postwar order led by the United States crumbles.
In a pre-taped interview for The New York Times’s Dealbook summit, Taiwan’s president, Lai Ching-te, spoke about China’s continuing threat to Taiwan’s sovereignty and the country’s relationship to the U.S.
In a sign of China’s role in the city, officials have tried to stamp out calls for accountability over a catastrophe that killed at least 159 people.
President Lai Ching-te is aiming to invest an additional $40 billion in military spending to deter China.
Joe Kahn, editor ejecutivo de The New York Times, responde preguntas sobre cómo cubrimos las noticias y tomamos decisiones en nuestros reportajes y edición.
The authorities quickly arrested critics demanding accountability, signaling an expansive use of the security law to silence dissent over nonpolitical tragedies.
The push to close the offices appears to contradict a federal judge’s order from April, which required Trump officials to resume operations at V.O.A.
Joe Kahn, The New York Times’s executive editor, was asked about how we cover the news and make judgment calls in our reporting and editing.
China’s fast-food and beverage chains have an opportunity to expand in the United States and escape cutthroat competition at home.
The Disney sequel took in $156 million in North America over its first five days. Strong turnout in China pushed the film’s global opening total to $556 million.
With little being done to clean the skies over New Delhi, the huge city struggles with its toxic air.
Myanmar’s junta made a grand display of demolishing buildings that hosted the centers, even broadcasting the explosions. But the scammers have found new homes.
Las autoridades dijeron que unas redes y unas planchas de espuma inflamables podrían haber provocado el incendio más mortífero de la ciudad en casi 70 años.
Residents from across the city have quickly organized to donate food, water, clothing and other supplies in Tai Po for the many displaced people.
The authorities said flammable netting and foam boards may have fueled the city’s deadliest blaze in nearly 70 years, killing at least 65 and prompting arrests.
China y Japón, en una disputa diplomática en torno a Taiwán; incendio en Hong Kong y más para estar al día.
Tras meses de disputas con Estados Unidos por sus aranceles, China y Japón ahora quieren el apoyo de este país para sus respectivas posturas sobre Taiwán.
China and Japan are in a diplomatic feud over Taiwan, with President Trump in the middle.
Farmers in Northwest China confront their drying landscape by planting trees as coal burns relentlessly nearby. This film tells a human story behind an element from the periodic table: carbon.
Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, is not backing off from comments about Taiwan that enraged China. Many of Japan’s voters like her stance.
President Lai Ching-te says the spending, which must be approved by the island’s legislature, would fund purchases of arms from the United States.
The ash cloud drifted over northern India, causing some flight delays and cancellations, and continued toward China.
With Japan’s new leader refusing to back down from China’s show of force and claims on Taiwan, Xi Jinping picks up the phone to try to pry the U.S.-Japan alliance apart.
The Trump administration is trading billions of dollars of taxpayer money for ownership stakes in companies. The unusual practice shows no sign of slowing.
China closed off Japanese seafood imports after Japan’s new leader declared strong support for Taiwan. Suddenly, sushi is everywhere on Taiwanese social media.
Hydronuclear experiments, barred globally since the 1990s, may lie behind President Trump’s call last month for the United States to resume its testing of nuclear bombs.
De Suecia a México, seis pequeñas empresas hablan de cómo se comunican con sus clientes estadounidenses en medio de la incertidumbre causada por los aranceles de Trump.
From Sweden to Brazil, six small companies talk about how they are communicating with their U.S. customers amid uncertainty over Trump’s changing tariffs.
The United States has retreated on climate. China, the only superpower at COP30 and the world leader in clean energy, is not filling the void.
Facing reprisals from Beijing for a remark over Taiwan, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi must walk a fine line to prevent escalating the dispute without looking weak at home.
The United States, not China, seems determined to upend the global order.
As some lawmakers press U.S. universities to curtail ties with China, a postdoctoral student’s prosecution raises questions about how big the danger actually is.
New research shows that climate change is beginning to erode home prices in the most disaster-prone areas of the United States. Here’s what to know.
A court in the Philippines convicted Alice Guo for trafficking people to a compound that officials have linked to online scams and organized crime.
Aunque algunos ejecutivos de California pintan a China como el enemigo, los profesionales del país asiático siguen desempeñando un papel importante en la investigación estadounidense.
His ill-conceived tariff war exposed U.S. vulnerabilities, strengthened China’s leverage and undermined America at a pivotal time.
Britain’s domestic intelligence agency said China was using headhunters to gather intelligence from lawmakers and parliamentary staff members.
While China is selling clean energy to the world, America is pushing oil and gas.
Beijing has used loans to developing nations to expand its influence, but a new study says no country has received more Chinese financing than the United States.
President Trump told reporters on Monday that he planned to sell F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, against the guidance from national security officials in his own administration. The Pentagon has expressed concerns that this could create an opportunity for China to steal the advanced fighter jets’ technology.
Russia and China abstained. The vote provides a legal mandate for the Trump administration’s vision of how to move past the cease-fire to rebuild the war-ravaged enclave after two years of war.
Beijing is flexing its military and economic might to show its displeasure with the Japanese leader’s comments about defending Taiwan. But its aggressive approach risks backfiring.
China sent Coast Guard ships near disputed islands and warned travelers and students about safety risks in Japan. The escalation is over comments on Taiwan by Japan’s new prime minister.
The church’s pastor, Ezra Jin Mingri, turned Zion Church into one of China’s largest unofficial congregations, even as government pressure on Christianity increased.
In a citywide campaign to curb a mosquito-borne virus, residents of Foshan face inspections and warnings for failure to comply.
The shifting consensus says more about our politics than the science of Covid.
The temporary lowering of tariffs may compel some U.S. businesses to order goods that they had held off buying after President Trump raised them to 145 percent.
As China and the United States trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the Covid pandemic got its start, like a previous one, in the wildlife trade.
The White House has thrown its weight behind the lab leak theory, an idea that has divided intelligence agencies.
Con el tiempo nos hemos enterado de que, para promover la apariencia de consenso, algunos funcionarios y científicos ocultaron o subestimaron hechos cruciales.
Five years after the start of Covid, we still don’t know the truth.
People who endured the longest Covid restrictions in the world are still grappling with what they lost: their loved ones, their livelihoods, their dignity.
The judgment was issued in a case brought by the Missouri attorney general. The Chinese government did not respond to the claims in court.
Still recovering from heavy spending during the pandemic, hospitals are squeezed by a slumping economy and government efforts to curb health care spending.
President Trump’s decision to pull out of the international health agency could deprive the United States of crucial scientific data and lessen the country’s influence in setting a global health agenda.
A new analysis that began under the Biden administration is released by the C.I.A.’s new director, John Ratcliffe, who wants the agency to get “off the sidelines” in the debate.
Aunque los casos están aumentando en China, la situación es muy distinta a cuando surgió la COVID-19 hace cinco años, según los expertos médicos. El HMPV es común y tiene décadas de antigüedad.
While cases are climbing in China, the situation is very different from what it was when Covid-19 emerged five years ago, medical experts say. HMPV has circulated in humans for decades.
Trump ve los aranceles y la deportación como medios para fortalecer el país, y los votantes parecen estar de acuerdo. Pero corre el riesgo de socavar una de las mayores fortalezas económicas de EE. UU.
Trump’s immigration and tariff plans will strain American farming and raise the prices you see at the store.
China has been rolling out new visa-free programs and promising to make travel easier for foreigners. But challenges remain.
Across two new books, the ideal of a global free market buckles under pressure from protesters, politicians of all stripes and the Covid pandemic.
Was the pandemic started by a lab leak or by natural transmission? We look at the evidence.
Responses to a guest essay asserting that the pandemic likely began with a lab leak. Also: President Biden’s image problems; “junk fees” in restaurants.
The world must not continue to bear the intolerable risks of research with the potential to cause pandemics.
The coronavirus pandemic schooled the world in the essential role of global supply chains. Have we learned anything from it?
Reviving a Mao-era surveillance campaign, the authorities are tracking residents, schoolchildren and businesses to forestall any potential unrest.
Yet Zhang Zhan’s supporters and human rights activists who had followed her case said they could not reach her or her family members.
The Chinese president this week will be visiting France, Serbia and Hungary. His trip comes at a time of tensions with many European countries over trade and accusations of Chinese espionage.
A heated hearing produced no new evidence that Peter Daszak or his nonprofit, EcoHealth Alliance, were implicated in the Covid outbreak.
Despite its thirst for Australian wine, China had taxed the imports in 2020 over a dispute about Covid-19.
The social media movement is the latest sign that some of China’s young people are resisting the compulsion to strive.
En la Asamblea Popular Nacional de esta semana, los dirigentes chinos fijaron un ambicioso objetivo de crecimiento: exactamente el mismo que el año pasado.
At China’s big political show, nervous exchanges with journalists and the tightly scripted pageantry showed how Xi Jinping has centralized control.
At the National People’s Congress on Tuesday, China’s leaders set an ambitious goal for growth, exactly the same one as last year.
Hundreds of flights and trains have been canceled as China’s most important holiday approaches, and more bad weather is in the forecast.
Over a year after China opened its borders following the pandemic, international trips are still lagging, although domestic travel is more popular.
Newly released documents indicate that a U.S. genetic database had received the sequence of the coronavirus two weeks before it was made public by others.
Pessimism among investors was most pronounced in Hong Kong, where stocks have plunged by 10 percent so far this year.