Production problems in China and Elon Musk’s pursuit of Twitter are leading investors to wonder whether the electric car company is worth as much as they thought.
Rights groups say Michelle Bachelet’s trip, including a visit to the western Chinese region of Xinjiang, where Beijing has cracked down on the Uyghur minority, will be a test of her office’s credibility.
The virus has infected more than 29,855,400 people and has been detected in nearly every country.
Inquiries to immigration consultants have surged; social media users trade tips on how to get abroad. But the government aims to “strictly restrict nonessential exit activities.”
With the administration’s attention having shifted to Ukraine, President Biden plans to emphasize that the United States can counter aggression in both Europe and Asia.
The campaign detailed by a cybersecurity firm highlights Beijing’s increasingly sophisticated tactics to spy on an array of targets, including countries it considers friends.
Plus North Korea’s Covid strategy and China’s expanding internet censorship.
Top economic officials are gathering this week to discuss how to keep pressure on Vladimir V. Putin without sinking their economies.
As infections spread quickly, outside experts are warning that the country’s desire to mimic Beijing’s playbook could worsen a coming disaster.
The Justice Department said that by serving as a middleman for the Chinese government, Mr. Wynn acted as a foreign agent and must register as one.
Plus lockdowns continue in Shanghai, and India’s community health workers press for a raise.
Reports in state news media about the return of daily life in the financial hub brought distressed responses from residents.
Plus climate’s role in Australia’s upcoming election and a Covid-19 protest at Peking University.
Authorities moved quickly to censor videos and photos that showed students at Peking University demonstrating.
Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
Xi Jinping has redoubled his country’s efforts to control the virus, even as a growing number of leaders call on Beijing to change course.
The leaders at the two-day summit in Washington will discuss a variety of topics, but the president plans to use it to show a united front against Beijing.
Plus uncertainty about China’s wheat harvest and religious violence in India.
Cardinal Joseph Zen, 90, was among three held for their work with a legal aid group that helped protesters and that officials accuse of colluding with foreign powers.
Ukraine’s wheat exports have been mostly halted since Russia’s invasion, while drought has damaged crops in India and the United States. China’s upcoming harvest is another concern.
Our perpetual pessimism can be turned into the source of our renewal.
Schools are closed indefinitely in Beijing, while the last subway lines in Shanghai that were still running have ceased operation.
Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
U.S. officials predict another 100 million cases in late 2022.
Plus the resignation of Sri Lanka’s prime minister and Taiwan’s pandemic pivot.
The government’s shift reflects a recognition that stringent pandemic measures were stifling economic activity and eroding the island’s international competitiveness.
Plus Hong Kong’s new leader and a Taliban decree targeting women’s dress.
John Lee, who won a rubber-stamp leadership election on Sunday, will implement the next stage of China’s agenda for the former British colony.
The Biden administration’s push for Taiwan to order missiles and smaller arms for asymmetric warfare has gained urgency since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
John Lee, a Beijing loyalist who oversaw the crackdown on pro-democracy protests, built his career by deepening his contacts within the mainland security services.
On this battlefield, lies are ammunition in Putin’s long and increasingly personal struggle to stay in power.
Migrant workers and recent college graduates have been hit hardest by shuttered factories, closed construction sites and an anemic job market.
Lockdowns and supply chain issues have soured European businesses in China on the idea of further investment in the country, a survey finds.
The E.U. proposed a total embargo.
A government plagued by volatility is trying to quell a separatist movement in Baluchistan while also fighting other insurgencies and striving for economic development.
Beijing has been locking down apartment complexes once cases are found. Here is what my district looked like.
And Mariupol evacuees start to emerge.
The Biden administration is planning a major shift to electric vehicles, but experts say it requires a secure, resilient supply of critical minerals.
While the Chinese capital has recorded only a few hundred cases in recent weeks, the move to reopen the facility appears to be aimed at avoiding the fate of Shanghai.
Ray Dalio discusses the economic and political mechanics of a changing world order.
Officials in China’s capital are striving to contain a coronavirus outbreak while avoiding public anger of the kind that has erupted in Shanghai.
As the lockdown of Shanghai and outbreaks in Beijing and elsewhere batter the economy, China’s leader keeps a distance from the politically charged issue.
Can computers help?
The city is heading into a long holiday weekend, and officials are discouraging travel and unnecessary gatherings.
Elon Musk has invested heavily in China, where officials are willing to influence or punish companies that cross political red lines.
More than 300 solar projects in the United States have been canceled or delayed in recent weeks because of an investigation by the Commerce Department.
Plus a U.S. push for Ukraine funds and extreme heat in India and Pakistan.
And more than half of Americans have been infected by the virus.
Also, Shanghai residents express anger and Singapore executes an intellectually disabled man.
American officials said that they were monitoring China’s progress in meeting the terms of a 2020 trade deal, but that intellectual property owners had expressed concerns.
Residents of the Chinese capital face mandatory P.C.R. tests but no mass lockdown yet, while large inland cities may be closed down in response to as few as two infections.
Public anger and grief over the bungled lockdown in Shanghai is creating a credibility crisis for the country’s leader, Xi Jinping, and his zero Covid policies.
Plus more aggressive support for Ukraine and Hong Kong’s brownface controversy.
China’s capital reported 22 cases as it kicked off an ambitious mandatory testing campaign across the city and reassured residents that food and other supplies were plentiful.
As the authorities in China’s biggest city fight to stamp out an Omicron outbreak, neighbors are turning to one another for support.
Mr. Roth joined Human Rights Watch when it was a fledgling organization. It has expanded into one of the most influential human rights advocacy groups.
China decides if Beijing will lock down soon
Plus a lockdown looms over Beijing and the U.S. flexes in Ukraine.
China’s capital city is not as central to global production networks as Shanghai, but the costs for global companies will still mount if lockdowns spread.
China is meddling with free enterprise as it hadn’t in decades. The results are familiar to those old enough to remember: scarcity, and the rise of black markets.
Supermarkets stocked up as panic buying began. Municipal authorities ordered that almost all residents be tested three times this week to contain a rising number of cases.
Old geopolitical foes are facing off after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but much of the world is refusing to take sides.
It will neither rattle Putin nor change our obligations in the war.
And it will get worse before it gets better.
What’s next for the coronavirus.
Two new studies say the virus was present in animals at the Huanan seafood market in 2019.
See the Winter Olympics in a series of composite images.
In March 2020, the Chinese government expelled a group of American reporters. This month, I returned to China for the first time to cover the Olympics.
Take a deeper look at the skier’s signature moves, which won her the gold in the big air and halfpipe competitions and a silver in slopestyle.
A week into the Winter Games, I went to the flagship store in downtown Beijing that sells Olympics merchandise — and joined the end of a long line.
The team is its youngest since 1994, cobbled together after the N.H.L. said it wouldn’t send its players to Beijing.
Believe it or not, a skiing race combined with rifle shooting is my favorite Winter Olympics event.
It might depend on who’s counting — and how.
Figure skating events began even before Beijing’s opening ceremony. Here are the athletes I’ll be watching.
The United States women’s hockey team opened Olympic play today against Finland. Let’s meet some of the players.
The 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing officially begin Friday. I’ll walk you through the latest.
China is hosting this year’s Winter Olympics in a bubble. For me, the bubble formed not in Beijing — but more than 5,000 miles away, at Charles de Gaulle Airport, outside of Paris.
In the past 17 months, I made five trips to a village northwest of Beijing. I was curious whether one of the Olympic venues there would be ready for the Games.
Everyone knows the biggest winner from electric cars: Tesla. Few outside the auto industry know the other big winner: the battery maker CATL.
新文件揭示了中国官员如何命令私人承包商按需提供内容、吸引关注者、追踪批评人士、为信息战提供其他服务，让人们得以一窥北京如何在全球社交媒体上进行宣传和塑造舆论。
New documents detail how Chinese officials tap private businesses for online information campaigns, offering a rare glimpse into how China’s vast bureaucracy works to spread propaganda online.
China’s government has supported foreign YouTubers who put a positive spin on its policies, in its latest effort to shape how the world sees it.
A Chinese lunar rover spotted an unusual object on the moon's surface. Extraterrestrial artifact, or the latest case of mistaken space identity?
中国宣传部门官员努力重塑国际社会关于彭帅性侵指控的讨论，但他们自上而下的策略漏洞百出。
Chinese propaganda officials have tried to shape the global discussion of the tennis player Peng Shuai’s #MeToo accusations, but their top-down strategy has largely stumbled.
The highly intricate and interconnected global supply chain is in upheaval, and in one way or another, much of the crisis can be traced to the outbreak of Covid-19.
The U.N. pledged to cut in half the proportion of people living in extreme poverty by 2015 from 1990 levels. I wanted to know if it happened.
The government of Congo is trying to clean up cobalt mining in the country. Here’s the backstory.
The newest plans by countries to fight climate change still fall short of what scientists say is necessary. Here’s what the 10 biggest emitters have promised.
Evergrande, China's largest developer for two decades, amassed $300 billion in debt. A messy collapse could hit property prices and household wealth.
An illustrated guide to the different sections of China’s new space station.
Three spacecraft reached Mars in February, starting a busy year of new exploration. Here's what they're showing us from the red planet.
Thousands of videos posted look like unfiltered glimpses of life for Uyghurs, but taken together, the videos begin to reveal clues of a broader influence campaign orchestrated by the Chinese government.
Apple has long centered its sales pitch on protecting its users’ data. But I had a hunch that it couldn’t be that simple in China, where the company is deeply entrenched.
They called her the Orphan Girl. She yearned to escape poverty and misfortune. It all ended in sorrow.
President Biden’s new pledge to cut emissions at least 50 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 is one of the more aggressive near-term targets among advanced economies.
Lawyers for Sun Yang, a three-time Olympic champion, presented evidence that one of the arbitrators who issued his eight-year suspension had made racist comments about China on social media.
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.
Rural carriers have raised concerns about moves to crack down on Huawei gear, saying it will cut them off from a supply of affordable equipment.
Read excerpts from The Times’s on-the-ground coverage of the Chinese government’s 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators.
In a new white paper, Beijing blamed the United States for the breakdown in trade talks. Some companies, like FedEx, are already feeling pressure from the Chinese government.
The president has suggested in the past that Mr. Xi would travel to the United States for a signing ceremony once the countries have a final deal.
The company had long struggled to gain traction in China despite operating there for more than a decade.
Any serious energy transformation will need to harness America’s powerful and creative economic engine.
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.
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.
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.
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.