The president wants to begin renegotiating a U.S. trade deal with Canada and Mexico earlier than a scheduled 2026 review, people familiar with his thinking said.
Muchos aspectos de la nueva entidad siguen sin estar claros y, según los expertos en comercio, el grueso de los ingresos arancelarios vendría de las empresas estadounidenses que importan productos.
The president said the planned duties were a response to China’s failure to curb fentanyl exports.
Marco Rubio told State Department employees that changes under President Trump “are not meant to be destructive, they’re not meant to be punitive.”
President Trump wants an External Revenue Service to collect tariffs on imports. One trade expert said the move may be “more branding than substance.”
La acción ejecutiva del presidente en materia comercial mantendrá todas las posibilidades abiertas, entre ellas eventuales aranceles contra China, Canadá y México.
Are tariffs good or bad policy? The answer is less simple than you might think.
Hubo un tiempo en que los gigantes chinos de internet parecían listos para conquistar el mundo, pero este parece haberlos olvidado, salvo para verlos como amenazas.
The president’s executive action on trade will keep all possibilities on the table, including eventual tariffs against China, Canada and Mexico.
The Chinese social media app, popular in the United States a week after being flooded by TikTok users, has added language translation features.
The key to peace is strength, and the key to strength is leadership.
China’s internet companies and their hard-working, resourceful professionals make world-class products, in spite of censorship and malign neglect by Beijing.
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s idea, a 50-50 “joint venture” between the existing Chinese owner and some kind of American entity, was more politics than substance.
Dozens of men from the ethnic minority sought escape from repression in China a decade ago, but have been detained in Thailand ever since.
President Biden and his team saw China as the one nation with the intent and capability to displace American primacy — and crafted policies to defend U.S. power.
Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, said in an interview that “we’ve just stuck with our theory, which is managed competition.” Trump and Xi Jinping might have other plans.
The incoming president has floated numerous tariff plans. Retailers say their livelihood could depend on which ultimately come to fruition.
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Start-ups with Chinese ties have found it increasingly difficult to do business and list shares in the United States.
As C.I.A. director, William J. Burns was deeply focused on China and Russia when the Middle East conflict plunged him back into his old life.
Until this week, the app was little known outside of China.
La empresa argumentaba que la ley violaba sus derechos de libertad de expresión y los de sus 170 millones de usuarios estadounidenses.
A cold war between the United States and China has now truly begun.
A change to China’s export rules could give Beijing sign off on any deal that would force the internet giant ByteDance to give up TikTok.
The company argued that the law, citing potential Chinese threats to the nation’s security, violated its First Amendment rights and those of its 170 million users.
With days until Donald Trump is sworn in, China is bracing for a trade war, aiming at industries as diverse as semiconductors, apparel and industrial plastic.
The fall came despite a slight rise in births last year, the first increase since 2016. State efforts to cajole women to have children have met resistance.
Analysts say they see signs of malaise in China’s domestic economy, but those problems were offset mainly by robust exports and a $1 trillion trade surplus.
Ahead of a Supreme Court ruling, they are mocking U.S. national security concerns about the Chinese-owned app.
Scott Bessent, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice to be Treasury secretary, will be in charge of steering the president’s economic agenda if confirmed by the Senate.
Hundreds of thousands of self-described TikTok refugees are flocking to Xiaohongshu, a Chinese social media app also known as RedNote. Americans users say they feel welcome, but politically sensitive topics are off limits.
Police are checking on safety at schools and visiting karaoke bars and rental homes to root out perceived malcontents, after several mass killings alarmed the public.
Los esfuerzos de Pekín por ampliar su alcance en el país centroamericano se han topado con varios obstáculos, en parte debido a la presión estadounidense.
The loose arrangement of hostile powers could pose a series of conundrums for President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state.
Expertos advierten que Trump puede enemistarse con Panamá en un momento en el que China intenta atraer a ese país como aliado y ampliar su influencia en América Latina.
Beijing’s efforts to expand its reach in the country have hit several obstacles, in part because of American pressure.
Senator Marco Rubio, who is nominated for secretary of state, has a long history of personal and policy differences with President-elect Donald Trump.
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s threat to take back the Panama Canal may be posturing, but it could dampen the Panamanian government’s wish to broaden relations with the United States, analysts say.
The brief abduction of a Chinese actor who was trafficked into Myanmar to work in a scam camp has rattled travelers from a country that Thailand relies on for tourism.
Solo un tercio del superávit comercial de China fue con Estados Unidos, y solo un tercio del déficit estadounidense fue con China. Esa es una ecuación complicada para el presidente electo estadounidense.
Para demostrar lo poco que les importan los vínculos de TikTok con Pekín, los estadounidenses están descargando Xiaohongshu, conocida como “Red Note”, una de las aplicaciones más populares de China.
The administration announced it would penalize its largest-ever batch of companies linked to Xinjiang, including major suppliers of critical minerals and textiles.
As the popular video app faces a ban in the United States, Chinese officials are said to be weighing options to save it — including a sale to the tech mogul.
To show how little they care about TikTok’s ties to Beijing, people in the United States are downloading one of China’s most popular apps.
Jake Sullivan, Biden’s national security adviser, looks back on the hopes and realities of Bidenism.
Only a third of China’s trade surplus was with the United States, and only a third of the U.S. deficit was with China. That makes for tricky math for the president-elect.
Las exportaciones de China en 2024 superaron a sus importaciones en una escala pocas veces vista, excepto durante o inmediatamente después de las dos guerras mundiales.
New rules aim to keep advanced technology out of China and to ensure that cutting-edge artificial intelligence is developed by the United States and its allies.
The maker of ChatGPT hopes to spur investment from the Middle East and avoid strict regulations on the development of new technologies.
China’s vast exports in 2024 exceeded its imports on a scale seldom seen anywhere except during or immediately after the two world wars.
A social worker and teacher imprisoned for his activism, he later wrote about the toll of incarceration and worked to help others behind bars.
Shujun Wang seemed to be a Chinese democracy activist, but an F.B.I. investigation showed just how far China will go to repress citizens abroad.
The unexpected action is intended to tamp down a potential bubble in the bond market fueled by investors shunning riskier assets like stocks and real estate.
R. Nicholas Burns, the top U.S. diplomat in Beijing, says the Biden administration is making a final push to urge China to reconsider its tilt toward Russia, Iran and North Korea.
La red social está desafiando una posible prohibición o venta forzosa a nuevos propietarios en Estados Unidos, pero lleva varios años librando otras batallas en al menos 20 países.
Across China’s west, the Communist Party is placing children in boarding schools to assimilate a generation of Tibetans into the national mainstream and mold them into loyal citizens.
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China’s primary goal is to damage America’s economy and pave the way for it to become the world’s pre-eminent power.
TikTok is challenging a possible ban or forced sale to new owners in the United States, but has for several years been waging other fights in at least 20 countries.
A distant era of global politics, when nations scrambled to grab territory, suddenly seems less distant.
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Rescuers rushed to distribute blankets and tents to those displaced by the magnitude-7.1 quake that struck Tibetan villages near Nepal, toppling over 3,000 homes.
Los medios de comunicación estatales chinos dijeron que al menos 95 personas habían muerto en el terremoto de magnitud 7,1, que también se sintió en el vecino Nepal.
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.
The Taiwanese Coast Guard said seven Chinese nationals were aboard a ship suspected of causing the damage.
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.
Tencent’s shares plunged nearly 10 percent after it was designated a military company. The Chinese battery manufacturer CATL was also added to the list.
Chinese state media said at least 126 people had died in the magnitude 7.1 quake near an area of religious significance in Tibet. It was felt in neighboring Nepal.
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Russia and other hostile states have become increasingly brazen in adopting “gray zone” attacks against Europe and the United States, leaving defense officials with a dilemma: How to respond?
The briefs, filed a week before oral arguments, offered sharply differing accounts of China’s influence over the site and the role of the First Amendment.
The agency imposed penalties on a company it blamed for supporting the Chinese hacking group Flax Typhoon in a 2022-23 infiltration.
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A pocas semanas de que el presidente electo Donald Trump tome posesión de su cargo con la promesa de imponer nuevos aranceles a China, Pekín vuelve a demostrar que está dispuesto a contraatacar.
El gobierno chino ha realizado grandes inversiones en la construcción de puertos en todo el mundo. Y como China es el mayor exportador del mundo, sus empresas privadas desempeñan un papel importante en el transporte marítimo y las operaciones portuarias.
El cambio climático está provocando condiciones de sequía que están haciendo que el Canal de Panamá sea más difícil de operar y más caro de atravesar.
The president-elect inaccurately said that Chinese soldiers operate the Panama Canal. But China’s strategic positions in shipping worry Washington officials.
The Commerce Department requested that private companies comment on the implications of the rule by March. The final decision will fall to the Trump administration.
The move was the latest escalation in the back and forth between Beijing and Washington over products considered vital to national security.
Para muchas compañías, los aranceles no han hecho más que estimular una creativa reorganización global de sus operaciones de fabricación.
Climate change is causing drought conditions that are making the Panama Canal harder to operate and more expensive to pass through.
In a New Year’s address, Xi Jinping made a rare acknowledgment of the flagging economy while reiterating the government’s growth targets.
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The companies have found plenty of new channels to the U.S. market — demonstrating the potential limits of the tariffs Donald Trump has promised to impose.
A Justice Department investigation into whether antidoping authorities covered up positive tests for elite Chinese swimmers set off a power play to kill the inquiry.
The Biden administration’s approach to China has been full of contradictions.
Congress must prepare a plan now to avoid global meltdown.
At a shelter in the Flushing area of New York, Hui Muslims who fled oppression in China are concerned about the president-elect’s vows to tighten asylum policy.
El departamento notificó a los legisladores de una filtración, la cual dijo estaba vinculada a un agente respaldado por el Estado chino.
The episode comes at a particularly sensitive moment, just as the Biden White House is dealing with one of the most far-reaching, and damaging, hacks into American infrastructure in the cyberage.
Readers praise the former president’s accomplishments and character and recall encounters with him.
The dance group has exploited its young performers while amassing huge wealth for the Falun Gong religious movement — and getting a publicity boost from The Epoch Times.
Su relación estrecha con dirigentes chinos y sus supuestos contactos con funcionarios rusos son motivo de alarma.
An oral history project, “Planting Seeds,” considers the history and impact of an American Dance Festival program to train dancers in China.
A publisher that rose to prominence promoting right-wing conspiracy theories has also served as sword and shield for the dance group and the religious movement behind it.
His relationship with Chinese leaders and reported contacts with Russian officials are cause for alarm.
North Korea is the weak link in the emerging coalition of authoritarian states, and the incoming president is uniquely positioned to exploit this.
The dance group has accumulated enormous wealth, in large part by getting followers of the Falun Gong religious movement to work for free and pay its bills.
In 2020, he moved to ban the Chinese-owned app. Now, he is opposing the Biden administration’s effort to do just that.
Mientras Trump promete una extensión de la guerra comercial, las empresas mexicanas siguen ampliando sus fábricas. Asumen que su país sigue siendo fundamental para el objetivo estadounidense más ferviente: reducir la dependencia de las fábricas de China.
The biggest thing holding America back from dominance in artificial intelligence is the country’s inability to keep up with the demand for electricity.
Wholesale coffee prices are trading near a 50-year high because of shortages related to extreme weather and increased global demand.
Business leaders in Mexico say the incoming U.S. administration will enhance the appeal of their factories as an alternative to plants in China.
The president-elect took no position on the app’s First Amendment challenge to the law, which sets a Jan. 19 deadline to sell or close the popular platform.
A better industrial policy for the United States involves more risk taking, not less.
China and Europe are struggling economically. That gives the U.S. the advantage in weathering a tariff war.
Treaties ratified by the Senate in 1978 established permanent neutrality, but some Republicans regret that decision.
The Apple supplier has spent millions in the United States, India and Mexico over the past two years to lessen its dependence on China.
Un reportero y un fotógrafo comparten una mirada al interior del sistema de acogida de Nueva York, revelando las luchas, los temores y el impulso de salir adelante de quienes los habitan.
America must compete with China, but there’s also a complicated reality that both countries have to face.
China and the World Anti-Doping Agency say that positive tests for a banned drug among elite Chinese swimmers were a result of unwitting contamination. But the science behind that assertion is not so clear.
The older-style chips are crucial for a wide array of appliances and other machinery, including weaponry.
A reporter and photographer documented life in New York City’s shelter system for migrants, through the eyes of those living there.
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.
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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.
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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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Consumers and businesses are losing confidence in Xi Jinping’s government.