In one of the most staggering Hong Kong phone cons in recent memory, a 90-year-old woman was swindled over five months.
President Biden’s vow to work with China on issues like climate change is clashing with his promise to defend human rights.
To slow down climate change, new coal projects need to end. A global forecast this week shows demand rising sharply.
The virus has infected more than 29,855,400 people and has been detected in nearly every country.
Never before have so many countries, including China, moved with such vigor at the same time to limit the power of a single industry.
The country’s top leader warned that the world should not allow “unilateralism pursued by certain countries to set the pace for the whole world.”
Patriotic films. History lessons. Mass weddings. The Chinese Communist Party is going into overdrive to celebrate its 100th birthday.
Joy Buolamwini is on a crusade against bias in facial recognition technology, and the powerful companies that profit from it.
The two countries said they would treat global warming “with the seriousness and urgency that it demands.”
President Biden welcomed Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga of Japan to the White House, where they pledged to work together to counter authoritarianism and advance “shared democratic norms.”
The subtext of the meeting was responding to China’s influence and its aggressive actions in the Indo-Pacific and beyond, and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga resisted being drawn into a rivalry.
The subtext of the meeting was responding to China’s influence and its aggressive actions in the Indo-Pacific and beyond, and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga resisted being drawn into a rivalry.
The punishments for Mr. Lai, a media tycoon, and other leaders over an unauthorized peaceful protest point to what critics say is the shrinking space for dissent in Hong Kong.
Paraguay desperately needs Covid-19 vaccines, which China could supply. That has led the South American nation to reconsider its relationship with Taiwan, which precludes it from dealing with Beijing.
The world’s traditional growth engine reported an 18.3 percent leap in the first quarter. But consumers and small business aren’t fully sharing in the spoils.
John Kerry, President Biden’s climate envoy, is pressing China to do more to address global warming. But he faces an emboldened Beijing leadership that thinks the United States has lagged behind.
The government organized a day of citywide activities, from schools to the police academy, to encourage residents to support a recent national security law.
Officials said that China’s push for global power posed a threat to the United States, and they dwelled on climate change, domestic extremism and more.
U.S. intelligence officials warned senators on Wednesday that China was increasingly challenging American interests, from conducting economic espionage to coercive behavior toward its neighbors in Asia.
A government worker in China became an internet sensation after a video emerged of her striking back at a boss she had accused of harassment.
The president’s choice to set a firm date for a full withdrawal reflected a belief that the priorities of 2021 require moving on from policies set in 2001.
The annual assessment does not predict a military confrontation with either Russia or China, but it suggests that intelligence operations, cyberattacks and global drives for influence will intensify.
The trip is a first by a Biden administration official and comes at a time of tense relations between the two countries.
After contentious talks in Alaska, the visit by President Biden’s climate envoy could signal that the two countries are willing work together on some issues, even as they clash on others.
The administration is closing in on deals with some close allies, but agreements with powers like China, Brazil and India are proving difficult.
The administration is closing in on deals with some close allies, but agreements with powers like China, Brazil and India are proving difficult.
Beijing had accused the internet-finance titan, a sister company of the e-commerce giant Alibaba, of flouting regulations in its quest for growth.
Beijing has accused the internet-finance titan of flouting regulations in its quest for growth.
The artist Ai Weiwei is inspired by the resilience and self-contentment of his beloved cats.
Displacements, human rights violations, health concerns and overspending have dogged the Games in recent years. The Olympic mission is a mess in need of long-term fixing.
China’s $2.8 billion antitrust penalty against Alibaba far exceeds its previous fines for anticompetitive business practices.
Russia’s hidden coronavirus toll.
The penalty is the biggest move to date in China’s campaign to tighten supervision of its internet Goliaths.
Online platforms that stream dance, singing and comedy shows are pixelating performers’ T-shirts and sneakers amid a nationalistic fervor.
As China grows stronger and bolder, some experts want to end Washington’s decades-long policy of “strategic ambiguity.”
The Olympiad gives us leverage. Let’s use it.
Greenland’s left-wing environmentalist party promised to halt a mining project that could have made Greenland a major source of rare earths but at a potentially steep environmental price.
A scientific mission to China proposed further study for a number of topics. Critics and the director of the W.H.O. have weighed in as well.
Beijing, which can’t afford to let its attack on civil liberties scare away global banks and financiers, is offering them a big tax break and other perks.
La película es parte de la nueva y amplia campaña de propaganda de Pekín para rechazar las sanciones y las críticas a su opresión de los uigures.
Chinese rivals to Western names have improved quality and marketing. Now the country’s defiance could give them an edge with young patriots.
Under pressure to renounce cotton harvested in a Chinese region marked by gruesome repression, they face a backlash from nationalist Chinese consumers.
China’s Covid-19 vaccination campaign got off to a slow start. It is now trying to catch up, through a mixture of freebies and the occasional threat.
Chinese rivals to Western names have improved quality and marketing. Now the country’s defiance could give them an edge with young patriots.
The movie is part of Beijing’s wide-ranging new propaganda campaign to push back on sanctions and criticism of its oppression of the Uyghurs.
A native of Holland, he helped change the understanding of Chinese religion and became a Taoist priest in the process.
After building artificial islands, China is using large fleets of ostensibly civilian boats to press other countries’ vessels out of disputed waters.
As Americans buy more, they are expected to spur trade and investment and invigorate demand for German cars, Australian wine, Mexican auto parts and French fashions.
As Americans buy more, they are expected to spur trade and investment and invigorate demand for German cars, Australian wine, Mexican auto parts and French fashions.
Tired of housework and an unhappy marriage, a 56-year-old woman has been on a six-month jaunt across China that has challenged deep-rooted gender norms.
New rules, aimed at taming big money flows and possibly controlling the Chinese currency, could give domestic rivals a competitive edge and make international firms more dependent on local lenders.
Public awareness of the issue is growing in the country, spurred in part by the work of Uyghur activists, and that is increasing pressure on the government to take action.
John Sudworth left with his family after a propaganda campaign against him that followed coverage of the origins of Covid-19 and of a crackdown on Muslim minorities.
And together they are sabotaging their own efforts to curb China’s advances in the South China Sea.
The defendants, including the media tycoon Jimmy Lai and the barristers Martin Lee and Margaret Ng, were some of the city’s most prominent activists.
Una joven de la clase trabajadora fue sentenciada a una larga pena de prisión. Los poderosos funcionarios que le pagaron reciben castigos más leves, pero la opinión pública de China tiene preguntas.
The Swedish retailer said it was “dedicated to regaining trust and confidence” in China, more than a week after the backlash began.
Even as Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken similarly condemned abuses and oppression from China to Syria to Venezuela, he overturned aspects of the Trump administration’s human rights agenda.
As global trade has grown, shipping companies have steadily increased ship sizes — but the Suez Canal blockage showed that bigger is not always better.
¿Proviene la COVID-19 de los mercados de animales vivos? ¿Surgió de un laboratorio? El reporte expone teorías sobre la propagación del virus y el director de la agencia expresa algunas dudas sobre los hallazgos.
Did Covid-19 come from animal markets? It’s unclear. Did it emerge from a lab? Also unclear. Here’s what a new W.H.O. report says — including questions that the agency’s own chief raised about the findings.
New rules give Chinese security bodies power to investigate all potential candidates, meaning that opposition politicians face steep odds of even being allowed to run.
Biden has a chance to turn China’s strengths into weaknesses.
Far more work is needed to understand how the pandemic began, the report says, but it is not clear that Beijing will cooperate. “We may never find the true origins,” an expert said.
The Communist Party’s youth wing and official news outlets used grabby memes and hashtags to start a tsunami of nationalist fury over Xinjiang cotton.
As President Biden predicts a struggle between democracies and their opponents, Beijing is eager to champion the other side.
A user’s guide to the latest cross-border social media fashion crisis.
A user’s guide to the latest cross-border social media fashion crisis.
A young woman from a modest background gets a long prison term. The powerful officials who paid her draw lighter punishment. The Chinese public has questions.
New York reaches a deal to legalize marijuana, and China strikes back against sanctions.
While the government is welcoming Chinese investors to save moribund businesses and bring much-needed capital, many Serbians are complaining of environmental and political impacts.
The countries signed a sweeping pact on Saturday that calls for heavy Chinese investments in Iran over 25 years in exchange for oil — a step that could ease Iran’s international isolation.
At his news conference on Thursday, the president provided a revealing look into how he viewed the threat from Beijing.
It is a theory decried by many scientists and rejected as “extremely unlikely” by at least one World Health Organization international expert. The former official, Dr. Robert Redfield emphasized that it was his opinion.
Washington lawmakers, lobbyists and other parties have been vying to influence how the Bureau of Industry and Security, under the Biden administration, will approach a technology relationship with China.
Pro-Beijing lawmakers have called for work by the dissident artist Ai Weiwei to be removed from a new museum, and accused local arts groups of undermining national security.
Major clothing brands that rely on the Chinese market are caught in a bind as Beijing and the West harden their stances on the crackdown on Xinjiang.
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken sought to mend strained relations during a visit to NATO and the European Union this week, promising a more inclusive approach while encouraging members to stand strong against threats from China and Russia.
The Swedish retailer is the latest fashion business to come under pressure from Chinese consumers after a perceived misstep.
New satellite images obtained by The New York Times show that China has allowed tankers to use its infrastructure and territorial waters to deliver oil to North Korea.
We’ve stopped following our formula for success.
Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, said that the United States and several of its allies were sanctioning Chinese officials because of “serious human rights abuses” against the Uyghur ethnic minority in Xinjiang.
The sanctions come days after the Biden administration’s heated encounter with Chinese officials in Alaska, and will most likely widen tensions between Washington and Beijing.
She twice escaped war in China, and eventually landed in an America that was hungry for a new kind of Asian cuisine.
Mr. Jin is accused of engaging in a conspiracy to censor Zoom users in the United States.
Climate change is propelling enormous human migrations, transforming global agriculture and remaking the world order — and no country stands to gain more than Russia.
Thousands of religious sites in Xinjiang have been destroyed, a new analysis suggests, part of China’s drive to erode the region’s heritage.
William Stevenson was one of the first foreign correspondents to visit the People’s Republic of China. Decades later, despite its transformation, I recognize the same country.
These charts show the pandemic’s trajectory in each nation. New cases appear to be leveling off in some places, but they may still be far from a slowdown.
Some metros in the U.S. could have worse outbreaks than those in Italy’s Lombardy region or in Wuhan, China.
These charts show the trajectory of the coronavirus pandemic in each country. New cases have dwindled in China and South Korea, but the virus continues to spread rapidly in most of the world.
A satellite that detects pollution from human activity shows how the coronavirus is shutting down whole countries.