The company had long struggled to gain traction in China despite operating there for more than a decade.
The president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center says the United States has made some progress but needs to do more.
Any serious energy transformation will need to harness America’s powerful and creative economic engine.
The scholar, Michael Pillsbury, said the move seemed to be in retaliation for American restrictions on visas for visiting Chinese scholars.
TikTok is popular with children and young adults worldwide, but regulators are scrutinizing it, citing concerns about misuse and privacy.
Even as world events conspire to dent its prices and sales volume, Hong Kong remains the world’s most expensive housing market.
This two-bedroom penthouse with a large rooftop terrace in the Mid-Levels West district is on the market for $5.3 million.
New figures suggest the Chinese slowdown is bottoming out. Credit goes to a wave of lending, but economists warn that debt-fueled growth can’t continue.
A reporter traveled to Xinjiang territory, where thousands of ethnic Uighurs have been detained in camps. The authorities followed his every move.
Business leaders and intellectuals say one of Beijing’s toughest critics could force the country to change. Still needed: voices of support from the inside.
Oil purchases by China and India are undermining United States sanctions on Iran and Venezuela, but halting them could come at a cost.
President Trump’s unpredictable style has brought foreign countries to the negotiating table. But will it result in the United States leaving with more?
The Trump administration is revoking the visas of a number of Chinese experts who study the United States, fearful they share information with security agencies.
In a major ethical leap for the tech world, Chinese start-ups have built algorithms that the government uses to track members of a largely Muslim minority group.
Our emerging post-privacy order isn’t quite totalitarian, but it’s getting there.
Members of the Uighur ethnic group want their adopted homeland to take action over China’s internment camps, into which many of their loved ones seem to have disappeared.
President Trump has been considering an executive order that would ban Huawei and other Chinese telecom companies from building the next generation of wireless networks.
Copenhagen Zoo’s new enclosure in the shape of the yin and yang symbol is expected to attract thousands of visitors. But critics say it signals an overly cozy relationship with China.
Conflicting national laws on harmful content could have unintended consequences for the global internet.
The government said work on the East Coast Rail Link would resume after its price tag, originally projected at up to $20 billion, was cut nearly in half.
The government said work on the East Coast Rail Link would resume after its price tag, originally projected at up to $20 billion, was cut nearly in half.
The ability to secure a firm commitment from China to hold up its end of the pact or face repercussions will help determine whether President Trump’s agreement is seen as a true win or a capitulation.
A reader says a government app will be viewed skeptically by Chinese young people.
A blogger warned of “heart-piercing” and “noxious” energy at a Beijing building. A Chinese court disagreed.
More than 100 online retailers said they would cut down on child modeling, condemning corporal punishment in the shooting process.
Few cities in China have had as grim a history over the past century as Chongqing. Now the enormous city is prospering, but faces a wave of pink slips at factories.
In China, where facial recognition cameras are celebrated as a national triumph, many citizens convince themselves that everywhere else is filled with danger.
At least 690 people were executed last year, Amnesty International said. China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam and Iraq were the world’s death penalty leaders.
A largely empty urban district struggling with billions of dollars in debt demonstrates the breakdown of the Chinese economic growth model.
The president is not only reading the markets as a daily measure of his success, he is also shaping policy to keep prices high.
After sharply restricting logging in its own forests, China turned to imports, overwhelming even a country with abundant resources: Russia.
China, whose initial enthusiasm about cryptocurrencies has waned, may order its local governments not to support the industry.
After a woman fell to her death during a raid on a Queens massage parlor, her brother conducted his own investigation. He’s now returning to China with her ashes.
China’s hottest app, Study the Great Nation, is all about the president and his party. Study up!
Yujing Zhang, 32, was allowed into President Trump’s resort by Secret Service agents, but was later arrested. The authorities said she also had large amounts of cash in her hotel room.
In the Muslim world, and in Washington and Europe, Beijing uses its economic clout and fears of Islamic radicalism to make its arguments.
Beijing drives its trade strategies forward.
Millions of Chinese are using the app as part of President Xi’s efforts to strengthen ideological control in the digital age. Critics say it fuels a personality cult.
Two college students in Oregon are accused of tricking Apple into replacing nearly 1,500 counterfeit iPhones with genuine ones that were later sold.
My investigation took close to a year, in part because the accusations against Sheng Xue were tangled, and in Chinese, but also because I was delving into a complicated subculture.
Expanding the technology is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas emissions and decarbonize the economy.
Renamed estates stir consternation among tradition-bound French. Rabbits are hunted in the Bordeaux, they note, and there are no “Tibetan Antelopes.”
Investigating the story of Sheng Xue gave reporter Catherine Porter a glimpse into the complex ways Chinese dissidents can be silenced — even abroad.
The trade war is nearing a possible truce, but global companies are nevertheless moving to reduce their dependence on Chinese factories to make the world’s goods.
The Treasury secretary has agreed to recuse himself from matters that could benefit his wife’s film business.
Shiny new app, same old propaganda.
Children are interrogated. Neighbors become informants. Mosques are monitored. Cameras are everywhere.
The arrest of a woman with a malware-laced device revealed the challenge of protecting a president who prefers a resort over Camp David.
The arrest of a woman with a malware-laced device revealed the challenge of protecting a president who prefers a resort over Camp David.
Rules meant to allow the authorities to send a murder suspect to Taiwan have stirred fears that residents would be left without protection from mainland China’s legal system.
The attack occurred early on Wednesday in Hunan Province. The authorities said a suspect, a 31-year-old man, had been taken into custody.
A slump in exports raises questions about how effective Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic policies would have been without Chinese help.
Federal authorities have arrested a 32-year-old Chinese woman who allegedly made false statements when she sought to enter Mar-a-Lago over the weekend.
More than 40 governments have adopted a price on carbon, but many of the programs are still too weak to drive truly deep cuts in emissions.
The death toll was believed to be the highest for firefighters in the country since 2015, after shifting winds fanned the flames in Sichuan Province.
She thought she would be safe in Toronto. Then she began speaking out against the Chinese government and became the victim of a lurid smear campaign.
A trade deal could result in China promising to buy hundreds of billions of dollars of American products. It could further cement Beijing’s role in the economy.
Carrying out a promise made to President Trump, China announced that it would treat all variations of the opioid fentanyl as controlled substances.
Denouncing a “provocative” move, a Taiwanese official says Beijing should “not be an international troublemaker.”
Plus, Apple makes TV shows now, and China trade talks pick up steam.
Far from being isolated in Europe, the Italians say they are leading the expansion of new relations with China, and fully expect others to follow.
The wife of the missing former Interpol leader, Meng Hongwei, dismissed Chinese authorities’ allegations that he had spent lavishly and abused his power, She called his arrest politically motivated.
The Communist Party wants to instill the people with “core socialist values.” That means winnowing out content that extols individualism or hedonism.
The disappearance of Meng Hongwei highlighted China’s opaque legal system. His wife’s public appeals for help were a potential embarrassment to Beijing.
The government in Rome is a very unreliable partner, even for China.
Xu Zhangrun boldly criticized China’s repressive policies. Now his university has suspended him and started an inquiry. But he is not retreating.
Experts say the energies and directions of feng shui, the ancient Chinese practice for optimizing the home, change yearly.
An altered version of the film, released in China last weekend, is only around three minutes shorter than the original. But it omits crucial scenes.
An altered version of the film, released in China last weekend, is only around three minutes shorter than the original. But it omits crucial scenes.
Amid the signing of treaties and commercial contracts worth billions of euros, President Emmanuel Macron of France made wary statements about China’s influence as he hosted the country’s leader.
Worries that the United States economy could slip into recession plagued investors for the second straight trading day. In Japan, the market fell 3 percent.
The planned visit signals a return to normal government business as the prime minister tries to mend frayed relations with New Zealand’s largest export market.
Wang Yi has been held incommunicado since December, part of a government crackdown on independent religious groups.
Targeted by Putin’s Russia, Xi’s China and Trump’s America, Europe has a choice: Pull together, or be pulled apart.
A competition is being waged for loyalties in the South Pacific.
President Xi Jinping of China met Prince Albert of Monaco before joining President Emmanuel Macron of France for dinner ahead of talks on Monday about trade and security.
Top Chinese officials, looking at a skeptical audience both at home and abroad, pledge to open the country’s markets to foreign investment.
The move by Italy to join China’s “One Belt One Road” project crystallized shifting geopolitical balances and the populist Italian government’s willingness to break with its traditional partners.
The long-distance coach bus was taking tourists to Mao Zedong’s hometown when the fire erupted, according to Chinese state media. At least 26 people were killed.
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The United States is channeling a tougher approach as Trump’s negotiators head to China this weekend.
Italy would become the first Group of 7 nation to officially join China’s vast One Belt One Road project on Saturday, a sign of Beijing’s growing influence.
Software looks to be at the heart of the recent Ethiopian Airlines crash. Safety approval of such systems will only get harder as technology advances.
An undisclosed number of factory personnel were held after the blast, which raised fears that toxic substances could spread.
The blast occurred at a chemical plant, and videos online showed people who appeared to have been cut by glass and other debris.