Ma Ruilin worked as a Communist Party cadre helping fellow Muslims navigate their country as religious minorities, until the official hostility became too great to bear.
Davos may have felt like the end of the old world order, but the historian Adam Tooze isn’t confident that what comes next will be either stable or orderly.
Buffeted by tariffs and trade tensions, Prime Minister Keir Starmer took British business leaders to China and emerged with deals on visas and Scotch whisky, as well as pledges to deepen ties.
La sentencia de una corte local supone una victoria para el presidente Trump, quien dijo que quería el control de EE. UU. en el canal.
A manufacturing error turned a Lunar New Year toy into an unlikely emblem of workplace fatigue.
The leaders of both countries have recently visited Beijing seeking to strengthen economic ties, as tensions with the United States rise.
The historian Adam Tooze discusses Davos, China and the fading of an old world order.
A frowny-faced horse plushie, the result of a factory mistake, has become the internet’s unofficial mascot for the Lunar New Year. Fans say it resonates with overworked office employees.
El viaje del primer ministro británico a Pekín es la más reciente de una serie de visitas de dirigentes a China, diseñadas para proyectar al país como la alternativa estable a un Estados Unidos impredecible.
By ousting his top generals, Xi Jinping has secured absolute control, but has also hollowed out the command structure preparing for possible war over Taiwan.
El tráfico marítimo y las fábricas nunca cesan en la ciudad portuaria china de Ningbo, pero el mercado inmobiliario local se ha hundido y los restaurantes cercanos están vacíos.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain and President Xi Jinping of China met in Beijing on Thursday in a bid to reset ties as both countries seek a way around an increasingly volatile United States.
Trump’s special envoy to Greenland argues that the U.S. needs Greenland to defend it, American allies and American security.
The shipping traffic and factories never stop in China’s port city of Ningbo, but the local housing market has crashed and nearby restaurants sit empty.
A decision in China not to charge a man who fathered children with a woman with a mental illness has set off a debate about consent and the state’s push for babies.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain met with President Xi Jinping of China as he sought to promote business ties with the world’s second-largest economy.
Heng Guan, a Chinese national, will not be released immediately, as Homeland Security said it was reserving the right to appeal.
The exercises were the second time in six months that President Cyril Ramaphosa appeared to be blindsided by his own military regarding relations with Tehran.
Keeping Beijing off balance has advantages, but Trump may just be playing for short-term political gain.
Sites in China are selling test questions, and online forums offer software that can bypass test protections, according to tutors and testing experts raising alarms.
En medio de las tensiones políticas entre Tokio y Pekín, los osos emblema de la diplomacia de China abandonan su cargo.
La destitución del general de más alto rango de China ha desatado grandes especulaciones.
Farmers are critical to Iowa’s economy. They have been battered by President Trump’s tariffs and are not yet experiencing the “golden age” that the president promised.
Why the competition for, and control of, energy resources is central to global politics.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer hopes to boost his country’s lagging economy with a trip to Beijing. But he must carefully navigate between two superpowers.
As Japan and China feud, an animal long used in Chinese diplomacy has been summoned back home.
The ousting of China’s most senior general has set off fevered speculation.
Zhang Youxia, veterano de combate, fue considerado en su día el hombre de mayor confianza del ejército de Xi Jinping. Ahora ha sido acusado de deslealtad al líder del país.
A combat veteran, Zhang Youxia was once seen as the most trusted man in Xi Jinping’s military. Now he is the most public example of disloyalty to Mr. Xi.
The president’s approach is not just chaos or an updated version of 19th-century great-power competition.
Readers respond to a guest essay by a student at Harvard. Also: Our phone choices; falling behind China on energy.
The area most U.S. Arctic strategists think needs the most immediate development is not Greenland but the Bering Sea, almost 3,000 miles away.
Tras una cumbre de emergencia, la presidenta de la Comisión Europea declaró que “la firmeza, el acercamiento, la preparación y la unidad” habían sido eficaces al lidiar con Estados Unidos.
President Trump said he would impose tariffs if Canada made “a deal with China,” though there is no sign that those countries are discussing a broad trade agreement.
It might be worth considering the logic of the Carney doctrine.
The risk of Chinese aggression is hard to gauge, but it surely grows if we signal that Beijing has a free hand.
U.S. and European officials say they are unaware of any intelligence that shows China and Russia are endangering the island, which is protected by the NATO security umbrella.
U.S. trade policy has devastated the Canadian auto industry and pushed the country to reach an agreement that will make it easier for Chinese companies to sell cars there.
General Zhang Youxia had appeared to be President Xi Jinping’s trusted second-in-command. He has now joined the long list of generals and admirals under investigation.
Territorial integrity is a core tenet of Europe that is at risk from Russian and American imperialism. Brussels has fought back.
Chinese firms must contend with geopolitical tensions and mistrust to do business in the United States. Some are choosing to avoid the U.S. altogether.
La compañía informó que cedió el control mayoritario de su operación estadounidense para asegurar la continuidad de la plataforma en el país.
The Chinese parent company of the popular video app said a group of non-Chinese investors would create an American TikTok to avoid a federal ban.
The sensors used to listen for earthquakes could help protect people from the hazards created by falling spacecraft.
El presidente de EE. UU. afirmó en el Foro Económico Mundial que su país ya no ofrecería sus mercados y su protección militar a los aliados europeos.
Pensada como la versión china de la isla artificial con forma de palma de Dubái, la isla Haihua es un monumento de 12.000 millones de dólares al exceso económico financiado con deuda.
El primer ministro Mark Carney fue ovacionado en Davos por describir con aspereza el final de la Pax Americana. Está buscando nuevos aliados para ayudar a su país a sobrevivir.
The president used a keynote speech at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland to renounce the last vestiges of the liberal democratic order.
Is a Chinese century now dawning?
Taiwan’s domestic gridlock is revealing a deep-seated fracture over how the island should defend itself and how much it can depend on the United States.
The government of Prime Minister Keir Starmer approved plans for a massive new Chinese Embassy near Tower Bridge, disappointing critics who fear it will enable spying.
Intended as China’s version of Dubai’s palm-shaped artificial island, Ocean Flower Island is a $12 billion monument to debt-fueled economic excess.
Last fall, the number of new international undergraduates fell by 25 percent compared to the previous year. That drop poses financial and competitive challenges.
La población de China descendió por cuarto año consecutivo y su tasa de natalidad se desplomó, pues los legisladores no consiguen frenar una crisis demográfica.
Plus, chimney sweeps are making a comeback.
China isn’t just building gigantic amounts of power. Its businesses are reshaping technological foundations to electrify the world.
With fewer babies and more deaths, China’s population fell for a fourth straight year as policymakers face a demographic crisis in the making.
Falling apartment prices have erased the savings of millions of Chinese households, but exports lifted the economy to 5 percent growth last year.
The trip, a whirlwind of meetings with Chinese industry and top government officials, conveyed how the prime minister is viewing the wider world.
China is practicing vast maneuvers that could be used to disrupt U.S. naval movement, a New York Times analysis of ship data reveals.
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada announced that Canada would slash tariffs on some Chinese electric vehicles and that, in return, China would reduce tariffs on Canadian canola products.
China will in turn cut its own tariffs on Canadian canola products, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said in Beijing on Friday.
El juego “Blood Money: Lethal Eden” aprovecha una creciente ansiedad en China al recrear las experiencias de personas traficadas para dedicarse a la estafa.
Thousands of cities around the world saw their hottest year on record in 2025 as the planet has inched closer to a key temperature threshold.
Jung Chang’s 1991 memoir, “Wild Swans,” sold millions. Its follow-up delves further into a complex personal and political history.
The tariffs will allow President Trump to take a cut of Nvidia’s chip sales to China while putting off a decision about imposing higher taxes on the chip industry.
China has announced a more than trillion-dollar trade surplus that poses a greater danger to world commerce than Trump’s tariffs.
Una moneda débil y mayor producción doméstica impulsaron las exportaciones de China a 1,19 billones de dólares el año pasado, 20 por ciento más de lo que vendió en 2024.
The president’s hostility to E.V.s is hurting U.S. automakers.
“Blood Money: Lethal Eden” taps into a rising anxiety in China by simulating the experiences of people trafficked for the scam industry.
Bandas de criminales chinos operan centros dedicados a extraer millones de dólares de víctimas alrededor del mundo.
The prime minister is seeking new markets for Canadian goods and to mend relations with China after years of deep acrimony between the two nations.
China banned the burning of coal for heat around Beijing, but natural gas subsidies have run out, leaving many villagers vulnerable in dangerously cold weather.
China’s surplus reached $1.19 trillion last year, a 20 percent increase from 2024, as Beijing kept the currency weak and pursued self-reliance to replace imports.
La fijación del presidente de EE. UU. con el petróleo de Venezuela plantea la cuestión de cuánto vale realmente el “dominio energético” hoy en día.
Times journalists got a rare look inside one of the compounds where the online fraud industry makes its billions. Inspirational slogans (“Keep going”) were just the start.
Hannah Beech, a New York Times reporter, gained rare access to one of Myanmar’s notorious cyberscam centers to see how Chinese criminals have been targeting Americans in the middle of a war zone.
He Jiankui spent three years in prison after creating gene-edited babies. Now back at work, he sees a greater opening for researchers who push boundaries.
State media, embracing the gaming phrase “kill line,” is asserting China’s political superiority over the United States, deflecting focus on China’s own economic challenges.
Jinchao Wei sold technical manuals for American warships to a Chinese intelligence officer who had recruited him on social media.
President Trump’s fixation on Venezuela’s oil raises the question of how much “energy dominance” is really worth nowadays.
America’s days of unipolar supremacy are past.
With the president’s actions in Venezuela, we’re entering a new era. Here’s what it could look like.
China built a dominant strategic position in the region as the leading lender and trading partner. It is watching President Trump’s next moves closely.
Any attempt to seize Greenland from Denmark would fatally undermine the world’s most successful military alliance.
Experts say the scam industry has become a pillar of Cambodia’s economy, but it is under pressure from other countries to crack down.
Regulators said they will look at whether the deal for Manus, a Singapore start-up with Chinese roots, complied with China’s export and investment rules.
Trump will soon discover that the only way to revive major American oil investments in Venezuela is to revive Venezuela’s democracy.
Whether or not the Venezuelan raid was advisable, it was Trumpian.
Las repercusiones del ataque de EE. UU. a Venezuela se sentirán a lo largo del año, pero hay otras historias importantes. Nuestros reporteros nos cuentan sobre Ucrania, Medio Oriente y China.
Tokyo is concerned at signs that Beijing may be laying the groundwork to restrict access to the metals vital to manufacturing.
Policies meant to lure importers to Hainan, a resort island off China’s coast, signal an opening up, Beijing says. One expert calls it a “bait and switch.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio was said to have listed the Trump administration’s demands to Venezuela’s new leader, Delcy Rodríguez, in a classified meeting Monday with senior congressional leaders.
Our reporters on the ground tell us what they’re watching in Ukraine, the Middle East and China.
La incursión de EE. UU. para capturar a Maduro favorece la perspectiva del presidente de China: cuando los países poderosos imponen su voluntad cerca de casa, los demás tienden a retroceder.
Esta municipalidad china llegó a albergar a miles de rusos étnicos. Con el impulso de Xi Jinping por la unidad étnica, queda poco más que nostalgia y utilería para turistas.
The U.S. assault on Venezuela points to a world where big powers seek to call the shots in their regions, an idea Beijing knows well.
The reactions online revealed a Chinese society divided: Some saw what happened in Venezuela as a playbook for seizing Taiwan, while others warned about ideological rigidity.
Our list for the new year features an eclipse, a revolution and a tiger reserve. What’s on yours?
While both countries were allied with Nicolás Maduro, the U.S. attack could give them justification to use force in other spheres, analysts said.
David French and M. Gessen on why the ends do not justify the means in Venezuela.
Pekín ha prestado miles de millones a Caracas en las últimas décadas, y el destino del dinero que se le debe está en entredicho tras la salida de Maduro del poder.
The U.S. seizure of Venezuela’s president has governments, executives and investors bracing for wide-reaching business and geopolitical fallout.
Beijing has lent billions to Caracas in recent decades, and the fate of money it is owed is in question after the ouster of Venezuela’s leader.
Enhe was once home to thousands of ethnic Russians. Under Xi Jinping’s push for ethnic unity, little remains beyond nostalgia and props for tourists.
The gray-market drugs flooding Silicon Valley reveal a community that believes it can move faster than the F.D.A.
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.
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.
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.
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.