Draft rules on the export of artificial intelligence technology show how China is trying to balance national security risks with its desire to outpace the United States.
General Motors is seeking help from artificial intelligence to keep up with Chinese companies that introduce vehicles very quickly.
The response came after Homeland Security ordered the removal and exclusion of products developed by the Chinese company.
Although Kosmos 2612 is now backing away, the maneuver raised alarm bells for analysts who see it as part of a pattern of Russian aggression.
A prolonged housing crash, sluggish consumer spending and plunging investment have left China dependent on exports to keep the economy growing.
Thailand introduced subsidies and tax cuts to encourage electric vehicle adoption. Now it is trying to recalibrate, alarmed by the threat to its industrial landscape.
Attacks near the Strait of Hormuz have claimed the lives of at least 25 seafarers. Their survivors are reeling.
At this week’s Paris Motor Show, there are no signs the influx of low-cost Chinese vehicles will slow despite European Union efforts.
The New Yalu River Bridge, the largest border crossing connecting China and North Korea, had its grand opening on Thursday.
The long-delayed opening of the New Yalu River Bridge comes as the two countries expand trade despite international sanctions imposed on North Korea.
Researchers discovered that the agents were trying to bypass security controls on websites and made contact with them. A Times reporter was invited to join the discussion.
The old world order is fraying. Who gets to shape the next one?
China’s exports grew last month at the fastest pace in almost any month since the end of the global financial crisis.
South Korean stocks tumbled in particular, as reports of a breakthrough by a Chinese chip rival heightened concerns about competition.
Facing a competitive job market, college graduates in China are trading corporate jobs for farming, equipped with smartphones and tech skills.
Consumers across the continent increasingly want to buy low-cost Chinese vehicles. Policymakers are seeking to slow them down.
Backing down on Ukraine while failing in Iran is an invitation to our enemies.
Readers respond to “A.I. Has Made Me a Better Physician,” an essay by Dr. Rachael Bedard. Also: Our mental health; a comparison to China.
We take a look at escalating surveillance in China.
Live animal markets and the illegal sale of wildlife pose particular dangers, but any sale of wild animals or animal products poses spillover risks, a new study suggests.
Researchers have devised a new tool for discerning between naturally occurring viral outbreaks and those resulting from lab accidents.
Acclaimed overseas for defying censors, Lou Ye is more interested in reaching Chinese audiences, as he holds up a cinematic mirror to their lives in modern China.
En 2020, una viróloga china huyó a EE. UU., ayudada por aliados del presidente Trump que pretendían promover sus teorías no demostradas sobre los orígenes de la COVID-19. Su esposo sigue sin poder encontrarla.
In 2020, a Chinese virologist fled to the United States, aided by allies of President Trump who sought to promote her unproven theories about the origins of Covid-19. Her husband still can’t find her.
The church’s pastor, Ezra Jin Mingri, turned Zion Church into one of China’s largest unofficial congregations, even as government pressure on Christianity increased.
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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Consumers and businesses are losing confidence in Xi Jinping’s government.
We still don’t know how the pandemic started. Here’s what we do know — and why it matters.
The picture has changed as more evidence emerges, but we might never get a clear answer.
We still don’t know how the pandemic started. Here's what we do know — and why it matters.
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.
When the country ended its lockdowns, business was expected to come roaring back. Here’s why it didn’t.
Recent efforts to help people escape Kim Jong-un’s regime via China have been thwarted by digital surveillance, profiteering and the pandemic.
A declassified report says that the illnesses of three laboratory researchers in 2019 do not support or refute the theory that the virus that causes Covid could have slipped out of a lab.
Transparency is how to fight misinformation.
The agencies are expected to release declassified material on what they have learned about Covid’s origins. People briefed on the material say there is no smoking gun.
Mientras prestábamos atención a la pandemia, China y Ucrania, los caminos hacia la prosperidad y los intereses comunes se han oscurecido.
While the world’s eyes were on the pandemic, China and the war in Ukraine, the paths to prosperity and shared interests have grown murkier.
The Republican presidential candidate has made inaccurate or misleading claims about abortion, trans youth, foreign policy and domestic issues.
A new report projects that economic growth will slow this year and remain weak in 2024.
Pandemic lockdowns, on the heels of the turmoil of pro-democracy protests, hurt an airline that relied on Hong Kong as a vibrant gateway to Asia.
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The authorities say that cases are up, and one doctor estimates that there could soon be 65 million cases a week. But China appears determined to move on.
The return of budget tour groups from mainland China is sparking frustrations — and a dose of snobbery — in a city starved for business.