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En uno de los rascacielos más altos de Shenzhen, China, la espera por el elevador a la hora del almuerzo puede tardar hasta media hora. Un grupo de corredores pueden acortar la distancia entre los repartidores y los oficinistas hambrientos.
The vast Global Digital Trade Expo in Hangzhou stood as a rebuke to U.S. efforts to hem in China’s technology. But the real competition is internal, and profits are hard to find.
The burning of coal is the largest contributor to climate change worldwide. But the Trump administration sees United States coal as crucial.
La combinación numérica se refiere a un horario de trabajo de 9 a. m. a 9 p. m., seis días a la semana, que tiene su origen en el ambiente tecnológico chino.
China urged Cambodia and Thailand to end their border war in July. But weeks earlier, it had sent rockets and artillery shells to Cambodia, Thai intelligence documents show.
An informal network of last-mile runners close the gap between harried delivery drivers and hungry office workers in a Shenzhen skyscraper.
China’s rapidly growing missile force threatens Taiwan and the U.S. forces that protect the island.
The number combination refers to a work schedule — 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week — that has its origins in China’s hard-charging tech scene.
Fears of U.S. surveillance drove Xi Jinping, China’s leader, to elevate the agency and put it at the center of his cyber ambitions.
After pioneering the study of Chinese law in America, he was among the first foreigners to practice commercial law in China, and spoke out about human rights.
Beijing’s climate and trade pledges at the U.N. highlighted how modest moves can stand out when the United States is pulling back from global leadership.
The unsuccessful bid to put off the sanctions for six months over Iran’s nuclear program means they would go into effect early Sunday in Iran.
Li Qiang, China’s second-highest-ranking official, portrayed Beijing as stable leader at a time when President Trump is pulling back from international institutions.
Food delivery drivers in Shenzhen are trying to get orders to office workers faster by paying intermediaries to complete the final, upward leg of the journey.
While the West is distracted and divided, China is focused and surging ahead.
A new visa for science and engineering graduates is part of China’s effort to establish itself as the world leader in science and technology.
The administration has been working for months to find non-Chinese investors for a U.S. version of the app.
At the Climate Forward live event, we spoke to top policymakers about China, the Trump effect on climate policy and the boom in artificial intelligence.
The president said some revenue from tariffs would go to crop farmers, but the agriculture secretary said a plan wasn’t yet ready.
China stopped buying soybeans from America in May, placing a retaliatory tariff on the bumper crop after President Trump increased levies on goods from China.
China has embarked on a campaign to use more robots in its factories, transforming its manufacturing industries and becoming the dominant maker.
President Xi Jinping told a U.N. climate summit that China will reduce emissions across its economy, expand renewables sixfold and make electric cars “mainstream.”
China’s green-tech revolution has fueled climate optimism. But now the country seems to be pivoting.
She worked in American consulates around the world but found a home in China’s “Paris of the East,” where she documented a vanishing colonial architecture.
A museum’s directors said Chinese and Thai officials pressured them to remove the names of artists whose works criticized China. The curator flew to London, fearing arrest.
One million residents of Guangdong, in southern China, were evacuated. The storm left 14 dead in Taiwan.
En China, el periodismo y el debate público estaban experimentando una apertura. Entonces, un dirigente tomó el poder y utilizó una serie de medidas para dictar el discurso.
The bipartisan delegation said more conversations were necessary to avoid accidental “miscalculations and misunderstandings” that could lead to conflict.
Hong Kong canceled hundreds of flights, Macau shuttered casinos and the city of Shenzhen plans to evacuate 400,000 people.
China’s problem with competition is that it’s too brutal.
In China, journalism and public debate were opening up, and then a leader took over and used a series of steps to dictate speech.
Thousands were evacuated and hundreds of flights have been canceled ahead of the major storm, equivalent in wind speed to a Category 5 hurricane.
The overthrow of Nepal’s government is the latest in a series of uprisings among India’s neighbors, creating a political churn that complicates its ties.
A potential deal to reduce TikTok’s ties to China would give the app a new board with six American directors out of seven, the White House press secretary said.
The tactics President Trump has embraced place the United States in awkward company as freedom of expression is declining in dozens of countries.
After Beijing exerted its power over the valuable magnets as leverage, other countries started to add production, but only incrementally. And China is far ahead.
U.S. funding cuts are straining the United Nations and giving Beijing an opening to strengthen its influence, at a fraction of the cost Washington once paid.
As President Trump pulls back U.S. funding of the United Nations, countries like China, Russia and Qatar are seeking to influence the body’s work on human rights and labor.
Agreeing to a deal suggests that the fate of TikTok matters less to Beijing than gaining leverage on issues it cares most about, like tariffs, technology and Taiwan.
The two leaders are expected to speak Friday to discuss a deal to keep the wildly popular app from going dark in the United States.
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Laos is just one of the emerging markets where China’s green-tech revolution is installing more than cheap energy.
A standoff between New Zealand and the Cook Islands reflects an urgent question in the Pacific: Is China a threat or a partner for growth?
State media and online trolls have seized on the assassination to score geopolitical points against the United States, according to a new report.
For American manufacturers, it is hard to quit China and its unrivaled factories. One industry is defying that reality as it shifts more production to Vietnam.
Los aranceles del presidente Trump provocaron un desplome de las exportaciones chinas a Estados Unidos, pero sus ventas a otras regiones están aumentando.
It was the fourth time President Trump extended the deadline for TikTok to find a new owner or face a ban in the United States. This time, officials have said they are nearing a deal to address concerns about the app.
President Trump is set to speak with the Chinese leader on Friday to discuss the app’s future, signaling a potential thaw between the two men.
Tariffs triggered a plunge in China’s exports to the United States, but its global trade surplus is larger because sales to other regions are surging.
Nostalgia for the fashion and culture of the years after the millennium, when the future held promise for many, is a commentary on today’s mood.
Trump administration officials say they have the framework of a deal to save the popular video app. It had until Sept. 17 to be sold by its Chinese owner, ByteDance, or face a ban in the United States.
Chinese regulators, on a day of U.S. trade talks, said that an acquisition by Nvidia had violated antimonopoly regulations.
The current collision course was never inevitable, and Trump’s penchant for defying norms could help ensure peace.
Responses to a column by Thomas L. Friedman about cooperation between the U.S. and China on artificial intelligence. Also: A beautiful sight in Nashville.
Economic officials meeting in Madrid will seek to head off a November tariff deadline.
Nepal’s recent social media ban, part of a global censorship trend, helped set off widespread unrest, forcing the government to reverse course.
The spotlight at the Munich auto show this year is swinging back to BMW, Mercedes and Volkswagen after previously focusing on Chinese automakers.
The oil giant said Tuesday that it was acquiring assets from a Chicago company as it looks to start producing graphite, a key battery ingredient, by the end of the decade.
A Chinese man crossed dangerous jungles to enter the United States, in a failed bid for asylum. After being deported home in 2023, he faced a choice: stay or try to leave again?
Its vast investment in solar, wind and batteries is on track to end an era of global growth in the use of coal, oil and gas, the researchers said.
Farmers, builders and police officers use drones made by DJI, a Chinese company. President Trump and his allies want to stop all imports.
Already this year, China’s trade surplus with Africa is nearly as big as all of 2024, a sign of how President Trump’s tariffs are reshaping the flow of goods.
Middle-class Indians have been plowing their savings into the stock market, making it far less vulnerable to the shocks of a trade war.
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Size matters in great-power contests, and the U.S. can’t go it alone against China.
The unraveling of relations between the United States and India has convinced many Indian officials that the country should return to its difficult balancing act of nonalignment.
A new law in Hong Kong could pave the way for digital currencies tied to China.
Some of President Trump’s pressure tactics appear to have backfired, sending would-be allies into the embrace of China.
Two Democrats on the House China committee noted the use of A.I. by Chinese companies as a weapon in information warfare.
La presencia de Kim Jong-un en el desfile militar chino fue una señal de su creciente influencia geopolítica y de que su país está empezando a ser aceptado como potencia nuclear “de facto”.
Por primera vez en muchos años, los agricultores estadounidenses se preparan para recoger su cosecha sin órdenes de compra de China.
Mr. Kim’s presence at a Chinese military parade was a sign of his growing geopolitical leverage and that North Korea was being accepted as a de facto nuclear power.
The Justice Department’s inspector general disclosed new details about the extent of misconduct by a top F.B.I. counterintelligence official, Charles McGonigal.
La extraordinaria cumbre del presidente Trump con el presidente ruso Vladimir Putin el mes pasado aún no ha dado resultados concretos sobre la guerra en Ucrania.
Los avances médicos y la geopolítica están relacionados para dos líderes septuagenarios que han sugerido que su tiempo en el cargo está lejos de terminar.
La información recopilada durante el ataque, que duró años, podría permitir a los servicios de inteligencia de Pekín rastrear objetivos de Estados Unidos y de decenas de otros países.
We catalog the president’s emergencies to explore how he is using them to remake the government.
Our biggest adversary is waiting for the West to collapse.
U.S. farmers need to sell their incoming crop, and China needs to buy it in case its main alternative, Brazil, has a flood or drought. But their trade war prevents a deal.
Luckin Coffee, a dominant chain from China, arrived in the city in June vowing to inject “new vitality” into American coffee culture.
Aunque aún no lo saben, la revolución de la inteligencia artificial va a acercar a las dos potencias, no a alejarlas.
Information collected during the yearslong Salt Typhoon attack could allow Beijing’s intelligence services to track targets from the United States and dozens of other countries.
At a large Chinese military parade to commemorate the end of World War II, President Xi Jinping welcomed authoritarian leaders and debuted China’s newest weaponry. David Pierson, a foreign correspondent at The New York Times, explains what this means for the United States and the world.
President Trump’s extraordinary summit with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia last month has yet to yield any concrete results on the war in Ukraine.
During the Eurasian summit in China, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had conversations with leaders in the backseat of his presidential state car, offering him an ideal setting for deepening ties.
Medical advances and geopolitics collide for two septuagenarian leaders who have suggested that their time in office is far from over.
El mensaje fue subrayado por los líderes que asistieron, entre ellos Vladimir Putin y Kim Jong-un, representantes de Estados que han desafiado o cuestionado el dominio de EE. UU. del orden mundial.
Rides in his hulking bulletproof Aurus with the Indian and North Korean leaders offered the Russian leader an ideal setting for deepening ties.
La presencia de Kim Ju-ae en una importante reunión de líderes mundiales es la señal más reciente de que el dictador de Corea del Norte la considera una sucesora, dijeron los analistas.
At its military parade on Wednesday, China showcased hypersonic missiles to sink ships, drones that serve as wingmen and nuclear-capable ballistic missiles that can strike the continental United States.
We explore an act of defiance in China. But first, a look at President Trump’s health.
Without trust between America and China on A.I., the risks extend far beyond their borders.
President Xi Jinping of China oversaw the country’s ambitious display of military power and diplomatic influence during a parade attended by the leaders of Russia and North Korea.
China used a parade of fighter jets, missiles and goose-stepping troops to honor the country’s wartime sacrifice and issue a defiant warning to rivals.
Kim Ju-ae’s presence at a major gathering of world leaders is the latest sign that North Korea’s dictator considers her a successor, analysts said.
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.
Families crowded the waiting room and registration area of Capital Institute of Pediatrics, a hospital in Beijing, with respiratory illnesses in children increasing in the country.
Migraron de los pueblos a las metrópolis de China para mantener a sus familias y sus salarios bajos ayudaron al país a convertirse en la fábrica del mundo. Hoy, con poco empleo y sin prestaciones, temen por el futuro.
Migrant workers, who moved from China’s villages to its big cities, were a secret weapon building the economy. Now many see few options.
Scientists doing “gain-of-function” research said that heightened fears of lab leaks are stalling studies that could thwart the next pandemic virus.
Readers discuss the decline in theater subscribers after the pandemic. Also: Northern Ireland; food allergies; a Covid playmate; anti-China bias.
The campaign began at least four years ago and spanned thousands of accounts on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, Substack and Chinese websites, Meta said.
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Epidemiologists say a rise in cremations in an eastern province was the latest indication that the country’s official death toll from Covid is a vast undercount.
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