China has installed large steel cages and a former oil drilling rig in the Yellow Sea, raising concerns in South Korea that they could be used for military purposes.
Ford Motor said it would open a new plant in Michigan that could become ineligible for federal incentives under a policy bill championed by President Trump and passed by the House.
Beijing is one of Tehran’s most important economic partners. But experts question how much China will help Iran if it retaliates against the United States.
Promises of safety and convenience belie the machinery of political abuse.
The rhetoric belies a more complicated reality, as Beijing has been one of Tehran’s biggest backers.
Promised a path to prosperity through hard work and education, China’s working class youths are hitting immovable ceilings.
Staples including wheat, beef and coffee are all being affected by the lack of rainfall. In some cases, prices are climbing to record highs.
China, que depende de Irán para obtener petróleo y contrarrestar la influencia estadounidense, tiene mucho que perder con una guerra más amplia. Pero no puede hacer mucho al respecto.
Ante los aranceles y el escrutinio en Estados Unidos y Europa, las marcas de consumo chinas apuestan por convertirse en nombres conocidos en la mayor economía de América Latina.
China, which depends on Iran for oil and to counter American influence, has a lot to lose from a wider war. But there’s not much it can do about it.
Confronted with tariffs and scrutiny in the United States and Europe, Chinese consumer brands are betting that they can become household names in Latin America’s biggest economy.
Officials ordered a huge cleanup effort after videos of the mountains of garbage spread widely online.
Zou Zhenhao, 28, is considered by the police in the British capital to be “one of the most prolific predators” they have encountered. Investigators say there are probably many more victims.
Piles of trash-filled caves in Zhangjiajie, China, famous for its towering limestone pillars.
Quince años después del descubrimiento de un nuevo tipo de humano, los científicos hallaron su ADN en un cráneo fosilizado. ¿La clave? La placa dental.
BYD and other companies doubled their share of the car market after the European Union imposed higher tariffs on electric vehicles from China.
Fifteen years after the discovery of a new type of human, the Denisovan, scientists discovered its DNA in a fossilized skull. The key? Tooth plaque.
El rápido aumento de la demanda de oro refleja la escasa confianza de los compradores chinos en otras inversiones como las propiedades inmobiliarias y el mercado de valores.
The leader of China’s central bank made a clear though indirect critique of the dollar’s role as the world’s main currency.
Chinese investors have poured their savings into gold, attracted by promises of rising prices. One company’s sudden closure is a cautionary tale.
A medida que los aranceles del presidente Trump cierran el mercado estadounidense, los productos chinos inundan países desde el Sudeste Asiático hasta Europa y Latinoamérica.
A new report comes amid rising concern about how China will use new tools to power covert actions, as Western intelligence services also embrace the technology.
Both countries have closed their airspaces, leaving few options for citizens of other countries seeking to leave.
China lleva mucho tiempo luchando por mejorar su imagen, especialmente en Occidente. Puede que ahora esté logrando su cometido gracias a un muñeco de belleza cuestionable.
As President Trump’s tariffs close off the U.S. market, Chinese goods are flooding countries from Southeast Asia to Europe to Latin America.
Battery companies are slowing construction or reconsidering big investments in the United States because of tariffs on China and the proposed rollback of tax credits.
China has long struggled to improve its image, especially in the West. It may be scoring some victories now.
Canceling the visas of Chinese students in the United States is a horrible idea.
The military strikes jolted investors, raising concerns that a broader Mideast conflict would disrupt the world’s energy supplies.
Pekín ha usado el control que tiene sobre los minerales críticos y ha prolongado las conversaciones con Estados Unidos para evitar los temas más espinosos y fortalecerse.
Si el acuerdo verbal entre los dos países se mantiene, solo reparará parte del daño de la guerra comercial que inició el presidente de EE. UU.
The maneuvers over international waters in the Pacific last weekend prompted Japanese officials to warn China not to repeat them and risk a collision.
Beijing has gained time to build up its own strengths by drawing out negotiations with the United States, using its chokehold over critical minerals.
Under three presidential administrations, officials in Washington have used export controls to hold back China’s access to advanced technology.
The 2021 pact, meant to help counter China’s ambitions in the Asia Pacific, will be examined to ensure that it meets “America First criteria,” a U.S. official said.
If a handshake agreement holds, it will merely undo some of the damage from the trade war that President Trump started.
Policymakers in many countries assume that birthrates have fallen because people want fewer children, but a global study says financial insecurity is driving those decisions.
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U.S. negotiators say the London summit represented progress. But investors and business leaders remain wary.
China has leverage it can use by limiting access to its rare earth supplies, but it does not want to sacrifice its reputation as a reliable supplier.
Experts and former officials said it was unusual for a cabinet secretary to try to influence the Treasury Department’s sanctions process to target a domestic entity.
Two days of talks resulted in a “framework” that is intended to solidify terms of a deal the superpowers reached in Geneva last month.
By sending warships beyond Japan, the Chinese Navy is demonstrating its ability to project sea and air power far past its home waters.
How did the U.S. become so dependent on China for a resource that is essential for cars, fighter jets and more?
Officials from the world’s largest economies will try to strike a deal Tuesday to relax painful export restrictions that they have imposed on each other.
The two men also unsuccessfully tried to illegally export sensitive U.S. military technology to China, prosecutors said.
China produces the entire world’s supply of samarium, a rare earth metal that the United States and its allies need to rebuild inventories of fighter jets, missiles and other hardware.
El servicio Starlink de Musk ha llevado internet a algunos de los lugares más remotos de Sudamérica. Pero Bolivia lo rechaza, a pesar de que muchos están desesperados por un mejor servicio.
Mr. Musk’s Starlink has brought the internet to some of South America’s most remote places. But Bolivia is shunning it, even as many there are desperate for better service.
A highly visible missile base on Okinawa is part of a Japanese defense buildup made amid fears of Beijing’s growing power and questions about U.S. commitment.
Moscow has long been suspicious of foreign messaging apps. WeChat’s weak encryption makes it vulnerable.
A directive from Russia’s domestic security service was part of a cache that was advertised online by a cybercrime group.
Russia’s spy hunters are increasingly worried about China’s espionage, even as the two countries grow closer.
African students have traded academic institutions in the West for Chinese alternatives. The Trump administration’s clampdown on international students and visas could accelerate the shift.
A city with an image dented by protests, pandemic restrictions and a security crackdown hopes to broaden its appeal beyond budget-minded visitors from mainland China.
China ha intentado presentar la llamada entre el líder chino y el presidente de EE. UU. como un diálogo entre dos dirigentes fuertes que deben avanzar con firmeza.
The warm welcome for a technology executive whose purchases of the president’s digital coin won him a White House tour illustrates inconsistencies in the administration’s views toward visitors from China.
Top American economic officials will meet with their Chinese counterparts next Monday in hopes of breaking a trade stalemate, President Trump said.
Readers discuss the public feud between the president and his onetime ally. Also: China’s boom and America’s promise.
China sought to depict a call between Xi Jinping and President Trump as an appeal from one strongman leader to another to run a tight ship and stay on course.
Beijing has approved more export licenses for the critical minerals and magnets in recent days, but supplies remain scarce and factories in the West are running out.
In “The Once and Future World Order,” by Amitav Acharya, and “The Golden Road,” by William Dalrymple, our best hope might be that history repeats itself.
Chinese state media said the leaders spoke by phone on Thursday, amid worsening tensions between Washington and Beijing.
A Harvard graduate, a doctor and an actress have been at the center of social media storms over perceived privilege. Some see economic anxiety behind it.
Free trade reduces the frictions that can arise between nations. Tariffs will only take away stability.
Home builders, car manufacturers and can makers are among those that will see higher prices for materials. Those companies could charge customers more.
Buddhist temples in China are home to trees from dozens of endangered species, a new study shows. Some of them are almost 2,000 years old.
Police officers, customs officials and spies are reinforcing China’s embargo on the critical minerals that it overwhelmingly controls.
Even the president appears to be doubting his strategy to win over Beijing, as relations fray between the trading partners.
Lee Jae-myung’s inauguration speech was a sign of the diplomatic maneuvering he will need to pull off to navigate relations with China and the United States.
Even before the U.S. threatened to bar international students and besieged universities, China’s huge spending campaign on the sciences was bearing fruit.
Instead of battling over tariffs, Washington and Beijing have turned to a potentially far more harmful strategy: flexing their control over global supply chains.
An arrest by the F.B.I. comes as the Trump administration has promised to crack down on Chinese academics.
Since early April, China has stopped almost all shipments of critical minerals that are needed for cars, robots, wind turbines, jet fighters and other technologies.
Xi Zhongxun was purged by the Communist Party he served and went on to help reform Chinese politics. His son is the most authoritarian leader since Mao.
Estados Unidos permitió que su industria de metales de tierras raras se trasladara a China y ahora podría enfrentar graves trastornos económicos, pues este país limita suministros cruciales.
The United States allowed its rare earth metals industry to move to China and could now face severe economic disruption as China limits crucial supplies.
Both of the main candidates support the alliance with the United States, but the front-runner favors diplomacy with North Korea and China to improve strained relations.
In a world rattled by President Trump’s tariffs and his scorn for Western allies, the defense secretary struck a rare note of continuity on security partnerships.
Protecting the borders from espionage is essential. It’s something else to deny students because they are Chinese and hope to pursue a STEM degree in the United States.
Beijing has high hopes for its C919 single-aisle jet after years of delay, but the plane depends on engines, avionics and other gear from Western companies.
President Trump said that Beijing was not honoring the terms of a temporary agreement and warned of further confrontation.
The 1970s era of academic exchange began as a form of diplomacy. “People were curious about us, inviting us to their homes,” one former student remembers.
El piloto chino de 55 años voló a una altura casi a la par que la cumbre del Everest al ser víctima de un fenómeno conocido como “succión de nubes” mientras practicaba maniobras en tierra.
Qian Xuesen was a Chinese rocket scientist whose work was central to American military power. His exile had world-altering effects.
Beijing has intervened significantly in Myanmar’s civil war to protect its substantial investments in the country, handing a setback to resistance forces.
Students said the latest move had upended their plans and intensified their fears.
After video of the incident went viral, showing a face and body covered in ice, the local sporting authority said it had banned the paraglider from the sport for six months.
Trump administration officials are getting a second chance to try to sever ties with China by starting a trade war, imposing export controls and revoking student visas.
Just two-and-a-half weeks after agreeing to suspend tariffs, both countries are using export controls to disrupt each other’s key industries.
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State labor programs were aimed at lifting one of the nation’s poorest regions out of poverty, but they have also served as a tool to erode resistance to Chinese rule.
The Chinese government is finding a way around the U.S. ban on imports from Xinjiang — by moving Uyghurs to jobs in factories outside the region. David Pierson, a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, investigated — alongside the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and Der Spiegel — how workers are being moved to factories producing goods for major global brands.
China’s persecution of Uyghurs prompted the U.S. to ban Xinjiang imports. China found a way around it — by shipping more Uyghurs across the country.
Helplessness and frustration are setting in as student applicants in China wait to see how sweeping the new U.S. action might be.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the students who will have their visas canceled include people with ties to the Chinese Communist Party and those studying in “critical fields.”
President Trump has stopped some critical products and technologies made only in the United States from flowing to China, flexing the government’s power over global supply chains.
The company continued to grow fast in its most recent quarter despite new rules restricting the sale of A.I chips to China.
The robotic Tianwen-2 spacecraft will collect samples from Kamoʻoalewa, which some scientists suspect is a fragment of the moon.
European companies operating in China say the market has become increasingly challenging because of weak economic demand and opaque government rules on business.
EE. UU. y China están negociando de nuevo los aranceles. Esta vez, la economía china atraviesa dificultades.
A small Vermont business that sells water bottles used by cyclists and others is struggling to adapt to President Trump’s tariffs even after they were temporarily lowered.
President Trump and members of Congress want to revive U.S. shipbuilding with subsidies and penalties against Chinese-built ships. But there are obstacles.
A chronic housing slowdown and high youth unemployment rate have made China more vulnerable than it was in President Trump’s first term.
Domestic factories that make batteries to store power to meet America’s rising energy demand depend on Chinese components and federal subsidies.
President Trump’s recent actions and statements suggest he might want an arrangement where the United States, China and Russia each dominate their sphere of influence.
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.
Gross domestic product expanded 5.2 percent, as China worked to export more to make up for weak demand, high debt and a steep property contraction at home.
A surge of children has been hospitalized in China for respiratory illnesses, but international health authorities said the cause was common viruses and bacteria.
More than 24,000 Chinese citizens have been apprehended crossing into the United States from Mexico in the past year. That is more than in the preceding 10 years combined.
The W.H.O. had requested detailed information about a reported surge in respiratory illnesses in children in China. Chinese data suggested the surge was caused by known bacteria and viruses.
Reports of overcrowding at pediatric hospitals in China have raised concerns about a jump in respiratory illnesses affecting children.
Families crowded the waiting room and registration area of Capital Institute of Pediatrics, a hospital in Beijing, with respiratory illnesses in children increasing in the country.
Migraron de los pueblos a las metrópolis de China para mantener a sus familias y sus salarios bajos ayudaron al país a convertirse en la fábrica del mundo. Hoy, con poco empleo y sin prestaciones, temen por el futuro.
Migrant workers, who moved from China’s villages to its big cities, were a secret weapon building the economy. Now many see few options.
Scientists doing “gain-of-function” research said that heightened fears of lab leaks are stalling studies that could thwart the next pandemic virus.
Readers discuss the decline in theater subscribers after the pandemic. Also: Northern Ireland; food allergies; a Covid playmate; anti-China bias.