Two Americans who ran an English-language teaching company are being held on charges of organizing illegal border crossings, a Chinese government spokesman said.
President Trump’s trade adviser frequently cited Ron Vara, a fictional source who was a critic of China, in his writings.
State Department officials said the new measures were ordered in reciprocity for China’s strict limits on the actions of American diplomats there.
A trade truce with China has done little to reduce the uncertainty that threatens the global economy
A recovery in quarterly revenue suggests that the Chinese tech giant is weathering the Trump administration’s efforts to hobble it.
The issues of China and protests in Hong Kong are far different from N.B.A. free agency. But nine years later, James, himself, has also changed.
To improve community structures with citizens’ input, the United Nations uses a computer game inspired by Lego.
Pro-democracy demonstrators have begun singling out companies that they consider enemies of their movement. Vandalism and calls for boycotts have followed.
The demonstrations created the Chinese territory’s worst political crisis in years, ensnaring Beijing, Washington and foreign businesses, including the N.B.A. Here’s a guide to what’s happening.
The animated movie briefly shows China’s disputed “nine-dash line” in the South China Sea, which includes territory claimed by Vietnam and other countries.
Confidential documents reveal the troubled German bank’s brazen campaign to win business in China by charming and enriching the political elite. Here are six key takeaways.
Confidential documents detail how Deutsche Bank’s hiring practices curried favor with China’s ruling elite. A $4,000 bottle of French wine also helped.
A new study published on Monday adds to growing evidence of the negative health effects of air pollution on pregnant women and their fetuses.
The N.B.A. is the latest entertainment giant to incite nationalist anger in China, where political submission has become the price of admission to a market of 1.4 billion.
Games that count are days away, but the political and financial fallout of a preseason clash with China threatens to reshape the league’s future.
A river system that feeds millions of people is in danger of being starved of the nutrients needed to sustain its life.
President Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, agreed to a compromise on trade in recent days as they feel political pressures at home and face weakening economies.
As the N.B.A. defers to Beijing, a little more Western paranoia might be advantageous.
As the N.B.A. defers to Beijing, a little more Western paranoia might be advantageous.
The Chinese leader’s visit is a further display of his ambitious aims — both economic and strategic — on India’s doorstep.
The Trumps have criticized Hunter Biden for doing business overseas while his father was vice president. Last month, the Trumps won approval in Scotland to build 500 homes.
The idea of sports being mainly about what happens on the courts and fields has always been a myth.
A perpetual state of aggression on trade has been a drag on business decision-making, especially in manufacturing.
American tech companies want access to customers in China. But they’re learning that can come with a lot of baggage.
Gold has often been viewed as a haven, but many experts say it isn’t needed to diversify a portfolio and adds unnecessary expense.
Despite an interim deal, global peace and prosperity remain at risk if the United States and China do not fully resolve their conflict.
A basketball executive’s tweet supporting protests in Hong Kong transformed the league into a geopolitical battleground.
For nearly 30 years, American diplomats were expected to promote the rule of law. Under President Trump, they get punished for it.
A U.S. Chamber of Commerce official said a limited deal that would prevent President Trump’s planned tariff increase this month and set rules around how China manages its currency could be announced.
China has clamped down on state media coverage and online discussion of an American basketball executive’s tweet about the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.
An exhibition game between the Lakers and the Nets may signal a thaw. Still, even longtime fans said they would choose patriotism over their love of the game.
Expectations for a limited deal grew, even as the Trump administration separately considered limiting China’s access to U.S. capital markets and imposing greater scrutiny on Chinese companies.
Apple said it was removing the HKmap.live app, which was criticized by Chinese state media, because the Hong Kong authorities said protesters used it to attack the police.
President Xi of China wants to censor the Western world, too.
It was the team’s first victory at worlds since 1991, when Russians still competed as part of the Soviet Union.
The president said the league and Beijing “have to work out their own situation” in a dispute over a team executive’s tweet supporting pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.
We thought economic growth and technology would liberate China. Instead, it corrupted us.
Readers react to the Trump administration’s abandonment of the Kurds. Also: Basketball and China; the joys of gardening; New York psychics.
Outlets are trying to intimidate multinational companies into toeing the party line while Beijing tries to rein in the Hong Kong protests.
We need a Washington Corrupt Practices Act to stop political families from self-dealing.
The gaming company suspended the player and made him forfeit his prize money after he expressed support for the protest movement in Hong Kong.
The International Monetary Fund is the latest global organization to warn of growing economic fallout from President Trump’s trade war.
In blacklisting surveillance companies, the United States is the first major government to punish China for its crackdown on Muslims.
China’s state-run television canceled broadcasts of two preseason games scheduled to be held in the country this week.
The N.B.A. and others are finding it difficult to stay neutral in an increasingly politicized, and punitive, China.
The N.B.A. and others are finding it difficult to stay neutral in an increasingly politicized, and punitive, China.
“Like the N.B.A., we welcome the Chinese censors into our homes and into our hearts,” the show’s creators said in a tongue-in-cheek response. “We too love money more than freedom and democracy.”
Regulatory concerns would have made a deal difficult. Still, both exchanges and their home cities face difficult questions about their future.
The N.B.A., like other American businesses, has shown that it’s willing to play by China’s rules in exchange for China’s money.
The tariff fight has added to Chinese shoppers’ grocery bills. How is the government coping? By tapping its gigantic stockpile of emergency meat.
Daryl Morey’s tweet, quickly deleted, caused a stir mostly because it rattled the league’s access to a billion-dollar market.
A single tweet catapulted one of China’s favorite sports leagues into a tiptoe act familiar to many companies doing business in the autocratic country.
A general manager’s tweet catapulted one of China’s favorite sports leagues into a tiptoe act familiar to many companies doing business in the autocratic country.
The city’s leader announced an emergency law to restore order. It was a deliberate provocation.
With the rising popularity of CBD products, farmers are growing hemp. Some see it as a way to ride out President Trump’s fight over trade. Others fear it may not last.
The ban, punishable by up to a year in prison, was a measured approach. It avoided for now the more extreme options, like a curfew or running courthouses 24 hours a day.
Since President Trump called for China to investigate the Bidens, Chinese media and officials have been notably muted. They have reason for caution, said experts.
Leveraging celebrities, the know-how of tech companies and images built for social media, the Communist Party can effectively stir patriotism among the youth.
The U.S. and China are trying to reach agreement, but President Trump’s request is likely to increase scrutiny of any trade pact.
Readers react to the president’s overture to China to investigate the Bidens and a so-called perfect phone call with Ukraine’s leader.
Soliciting foreign interference sets a precedent. Here’s what that looks like.
Thousands protested, many wearing masks, as the clock ticked toward the ban taking effect, and clashes broke out around the city.
As an infant, my child was left on a bridge with a note pinned to her sweater. I thought finding it would provide us both with answers.
Without presenting any evidence, President Trump suggested that China showered money on Mr. Biden to influence his father as vice president and win favorable trade deals with the United States.
Now he wants China to investigate the Bidens and help his re-election bid. Give him this, he’s not subtle.
President Trump’s public call on China for help that could benefit him in the 2020 election comes amid an impeachment inquiry into a similar request to Ukraine.
President Trump made a similar, but private, request of the president of Ukraine, an episode that has prompted an impeachment inquiry.
The protests in Hong Kong accelerate the contradictions in Beijing.
At the grand anniversary celebrations this week, attendees weren’t props but excited participants.
Chinese consumers, a $4.9 trillion force, transformed the global economy. With their own economy slowing, they are pulling back.
Leaders in Beijing have declared their aims are peaceful, but developments in Hong Kong, Xinjiang, Tibet and elsewhere — as well as a military parade — may indicate otherwise.
The split-screen contrast between the two cities on the 70th anniversary of Communist Party rule in China laid bare an intensifying crisis.
As President Xi celebrates 70 years of Communist rule, a democratic enclave resists.
One of the largest parades in modern Chinese history took place in Beijing to celebrate National Day. At the same time, violent protests broke out in the streets of Hong Kong in a challenge to China’s rule. Here’s what these dueling events looked like.
The contrast of National Day pageantry in Beijing versus anti-government mayhem in Hong Kong was almost certainly infuriating to President Xi Jinping.
The protests started as peaceful marches and rallies against an unpopular bill. Then came dozens of rounds of tear gas and a government that refused to back down.
On a day Beijing celebrated 70 years of Communist Party rule, demonstrators and the police clashed in Hong Kong, in one of the most intense protests of four months of unrest.
The escalation in police tactics came amid violent demonstrations on National Day, a holiday commemorating Communist Party rule in China.
The escalation in police tactics came amid violent demonstrations on National Day, a holiday commemorating Communist Party rule in China.
The parade in Beijing, among the largest in modern Chinese history, was designed to commemorate 70 years of Communist rule.
Tolerance of diversity, not repression, is the surest way to govern a vast territory with many peoples.
The Hong Kong police used a live round against a protester for the first time in months of protests, as Beijing celebrated 70 years of Communist Party rule.
The indictment revealed that the United States ran a double-agent spy operation, passing along phony “national security information” on digital memory cards to Beijing.
She braved ostracism, assault and the loss of her job to expose the spread of the disease in rural China. A play about her has opened in London.
As the Communist Party celebrates 70 years in power, protests in Hong Kong threaten to overshadow the festivities.
Seventy years after Mao founded the People’s Republic, Xi Jinping visited Xinyang to rekindle revolutionary traditions. Its survivors of mass starvation went unmentioned.
State media puts pressure on Li Ka-shing, a powerful property tycoon, showing the Communist Party’s view of business as a means of control.
The territory’s traditional role as a gateway is under assault from President Trump’s trade war and a crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators.
The demonstrations openly defy Beijing’s rule just two days before the central government celebrates 70 years of Communist rule.
China’s leader, Xi Jinping, will use a military parade commemorating the 70th anniversary of Communist rule to highlight his power in the face of rising challenges.
How the party revived an ancient philosophy to extol order and compel obedience.
What happens when you mix rage, shame and pride with years of nationalist education?
From climate change to Taiwan, China’s foreign policy is about impressing the masses at home, not fighting enemies abroad.
As China celebrates the 70th anniversary of Communist rule, a father who fled the country wonders if he made the right decision, and why his son is protesting.
The proposal, which is in its early stages, would ratchet up tension ahead of trade talks next month.
How economic dislocation and immigration set the stage for wider backlash against Beijing’s overreach — and for emerging divisions within Hong Kong.
The protesters are more radical than they realize. Just like during the 2014 Umbrella Revolution.
Mrs. Lam met with 150 people on Thursday inside a heavily guarded stadium. She said she wanted to heal divisions and hear “constructive suggestions.”
A region that is the cradle of China’s economic overhauls shows how decisions made four decades ago are hobbling China’s farmers and hampering economic growth.
Struggling Afghan forces took three northern districts from the Taliban. But the cost was high, and troops depend on American airstrikes to hold on.
Conversation can triumph over conflict, calm can be restored, and trust can be rebuilt within the community.
The move was extraordinary given that dozens of Iranian diplomats were in New York for the U.N. General Assembly, though it was not expected to force them to leave.
Beijing is using economic and diplomatic pressure to quash any outcry, while governments are reluctant to risk financial ties and trade deals.
He was expected to receive a harsher sentence. But a federal judge said he had cooperated with investigators.
He was expected to receive a harsher sentence. But a federal judge said he had cooperated with investigators.
There is a winning campaign theme that progressives can use against Trump, and it isn’t “Medicare for all.”
A Chinese businesswoman in California has become a matchmaker between Chinese parents and American wombs.
Beijing is banning kites and balloons as it celebrates the 70th birthday of modern China. I, too, would have to go.
On Aug. 11, undercover officers in Hong Kong infiltrated crowds and severely beat protesters. We examined footage from that night and, for the first time, three men injured by the police told us their stories, painting a vivid picture of what happened.
Beijing hopes its social credit system will use vast troves of data to quickly punish companies accused of wrongdoing. U.S. firms could get hit, too.
One of the minors, a girl, was arrested on charges of burning a Chinese national flag. She was held overnight in police detention.
As part of a push into Central America, China presented itself as a deep-pocketed partner for El Salvador’s future. The Trump administration countered with words of warning.
A secret Communist Party directive has led to restrictions on Islamic practices far from Xinjiang, the western region where Uighurs have been brutally repressed.
The president says he will not accept an interim trade deal and accused China of building up its military with funds earned through unfair trade practices.
Tensions are mounting: protest installations are being torn down, and bottles are getting thrown at marchers.
Two Pacific nations severed ties with Taiwan in favor of Beijing this week, boosting China in its contest with the United States for influence in the region.
The seizure of the pilot, allegedly because air-gun pellets were found in his luggage, marks the latest difficulty for foreign travelers and companies in China.
The report by a watchdog group linked Dar Petroleum Operating Company to the president and outlined other major players it said were complicit in violence and corruption.
Twitter took down nearly 1,000 accounts that it said were part of a state-directed effort to undermine protests. Here is a look at their activities.
International deals involving technology and real estate could be blocked under proposed new rules that would add teeth to a law passed last year.
Building a movement was easier than finding a way to negotiate a compromise without leaders.
President Trump wants to secure “minideals” with Japan and India to notch victories on a signature issue as he heads into his re-election campaign.