The diplomat, Anna Lindstedt, is accused of overstepping her role in arranging meetings between the daughter of a detained Hong Kong bookseller and two businessmen who said they could help free him.
The technology giant also confirmed reports that Iran had targeted President Trump’s campaign, underscoring the persistent threat of hackers in the 2020 election.
Past protests actually are remembered in China — and commemorated with yet more protests.
The victims included 37 students, officials said. China has seen a rash of similar attacks on schoolchildren in recent years.
Residents across the city gathered to commemorate the victims of China’s 1989 crackdown, despite a police ban. Hours earlier, the city made mocking China’s anthem a crime.
Why would China go to the trouble of capsizing the global order when it can simply take it over?
In early 1989, change seemed unstoppable in Beijing. That it wasn’t, that China would push back with fury, casts a large shadow over Hong Kong today.
The promise, in reaction to a new security law China is trying to impose on the semiautonomous city, a former British colony, would sharply raise the stakes in a developing standoff.
The U.S. looks weak. Business is falling in line. Protests have been muted. For Beijing, the damage to the city and its own reputation from seizing greater control may be worth it.
Whether serious or silly, TikTok is an outlet for expression unlike anything that came before.
Beijing will allow limited flights by international carriers to resume after the White House threatened to block Chinese passenger jets from flying to the U.S.
The decision comes after Chinese regulators effectively prevented American airlines from resuming service to their country at a moment of rising tension.
Nuestro ‘enemigo oculto’, al descubierto.
Chinese officials and state media are seizing on the moment to tout Beijing’s authoritarian system and condemn American hypocrisy — a narrative that ignores many of their own issues.
African governments have loudly protested abuse of their citizens in China, but the Trump administration’s response to harassment of African-Americans has been muted.
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Researchers whose canceled U.S. grant caused an outcry from other scientists urge preventive monitoring of viruses in southwestern China.
A foreign ministry spokesman stayed close to the Communist Party’s official position on Hong Kong, suggesting that Beijing was waiting to see the specifics of the U.S. plan.
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Beijing is using fear and pressure to drum up support for its increasingly hard-line stance in the Asian financial capital, threatening its status as a global business center.
The president said he also planned to invite South Korea, Australia and India to the meeting of world leaders in order to discuss China’s future.
As China projects its power across Asia, and along the disputed India-China border in the Himalayas, India is feeling surrounded. Both sides insist they don’t want a war, but thousands of troops have been sent.
The reactions to President Trump’s decision fell along familiar political fault lines in a city wracked by nearly a year of protests.
America should be demanding answers, not retreating.
As the Chinese government’s grip tightens, protesters are debating how and why to keep fighting, or whether resistance is even possible.
America and its allies must not simply accept Beijing’s aggression.
America’s decades-long relationship with the organization has been instrumental in improving health around the world.
Critics say the actions would do little to blunt China’s influence and could ultimately hurt the U.S. and others.
The French carmaker said it would close assembly lines and abandon China as sales plunge. Other carmakers are expected to take similarly harsh measures.
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Drew Pavlou, an advocate for Hong Kong democracy and against Chinese influence on campus, has been barred from his studies at the University of Queensland until 2022.
Beijing has tapped local officials and business tycoons to sell a measure that could curtail the city’s civil and economic liberties and threaten its status as a financial center.
The Communist Party was always going to try to tame Hong Kong, but its latest efforts are something else.
From China’s perspective, the punitive American measures on trade, technology and Hong Kong have revealed a core American hostility. But China does not want to incinerate the relationship.
Washington has long given the former British colony a special status on trade and other issues. Changing that would threaten its position as a global business hub.
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The move is the latest in the Trump administration’s efforts to impose limits on Chinese students. But university officials say the government is paranoid, and that the United States will lose out.
Beijing ordered that a new law be written to extend many of mainland China’s security practices to Hong Kong, creating broad powers to quash unrest.
Time is running out for the free world to speak up.
The House overwhelmingly cleared legislation that would punish top Chinese officials for detaining more than one million Muslims in internment camps.
The State Department announcement comes as President Trump weighs hard measures against China, which is expected to approve a national security law on Hong Kong on Thursday.
A Vancouver court ruled that fraud charges against Meng Wanzhou in the United States would constitute a crime in Canada, opening the way for her extradition.
Increasingly, the demonstrations are a direct challenge to China’s ruling Communist Party rather than to the territory’s leadership.
A 2009 novel predicted the Chinese people would forget a traumatic crisis. The puzzle, says its author, is how it happened so fast.
Many sought to oppose a bill that would threaten prison for disrespecting the Chinese national anthem, the latest expression of public anger at Beijing’s encroachment.
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With the disease there mostly under control, officials are looking for new uses for the government software that’s now on many phones.
Finding work for a generation has become a major priority for the country’s leaders, who have promised a better life in exchange for a lack of political freedom.
The Wuhan government is close to completing its citywide testing drive. Thousands of medical and other workers were mobilized in a feat that some health experts and residents questioned.
The commander of the People’s Liberation Army garrison in Hong Kong and the city’s leader defended Beijing’s push for new national security laws governing the territory.
Xi Jinping’s China, emboldened by its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, no longer seems constrained by the threat of international rebuke.
Marchers defied social distancing rules and a water cannon to demonstrate against Beijing’s plan for new security legislation in the territory.
Placing faith in a leader with little control over a virus may seem irrational, but it fills a very human need.
This hybrid of East and West may have reached the limits of its middle ground.
State-run news media depicted the proposed national security laws as necessary to protect the rule of the Communist Party.
A trial with 108 participants suggests the vaccine is safe and may be moderately effective. But experts noted that the approach has failed in the past.
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An emboldened China and its leader, Xi Jinping, assert themselves on national security, in line with Mr. Xi’s vision for a “great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.”
The territory’s stock market plunged amid expectations that money would soon be leaving the Asian financial hub, which faces tough new measures from Beijing and retaliation from the United States.
The special governance system set up to protect the city’s freedoms was really only ever designed to stifle them.
Beijing’s move to take a direct hand in the territory’s affairs will pit the pro-democracy movement against an uncompromising Communist Party.
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After three months of chaos and deaths caused by the pandemic, the continent, led by Germany and France, is giving convergence another try.
Beijing broke with precedent in abandoning an annual growth target for 2020, a sign of the difficulties of restarting its economy amid the coronavirus pandemic.
A group of 77 Nobel laureates wants the U.S. government to review a grant cancellation for research in China directly related to preventing pandemics.
A proposed new security law has senators calling for sanctions. But the president is reluctant to jeopardize his ties to President Xi Jinping.
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New security laws would allow Beijing to take aim at the protests that have roiled the semiautonomous city and posed a direct challenge to the Communist Party and its leader, Xi Jinping.
The president held out the possibility of negotiations with the Russians that could save American participation in the accord. But even some of his own aides said success for that seemed unlikely.
Such rules would allow Beijing to take aim at the protests that have roiled the semiautonomous city and posed a direct challenge to the Chinese Communist Party and its leader, Xi Jinping.
Such rules would allow Beijing to take aim at the protests that have roiled the semiautonomous city and posed a direct challenge to the Chinese Communist Party and its leader, Xi Jinping.
The National People’s Congress, which starts Friday morning in Beijing, is a chance for China to show the world that it has tamed the epidemic.
Infections in the northeast have led officials to sequester hundreds of thousands at home. “China doesn’t want to take any chances,” one expert said.
The police are seeking to silence those who bought a Bank of China investment that backfired, highlighting the plight of small investors in the country.
China’s leader is using the country’s success — and the criticism against it — to urge the party and the people to weather tough days ahead.
The outcome left the United States isolated as officials from China, Russia and the European Union chided Mr. Trump over his heated threats.
Sus economías sufren y las naciones deudoras quieren que Pekín perdone o renegocie los préstamos. Hacerlo sería costoso. Rehusarse puede dañar la imagen global del gigante asiático.
He attacks Joe Biden to deflect blame for his terrible handling of Covid-19 and record of appeasing Beijing.
In her fiction she depicted “the struggle of Chinese immigrants in American society” — not the “Oriental exoticism” preferred by many publishers in the ’60s.
The Trump administration is challenging Chinese access to Taiwan’s high-tech supply chain — and, by extension, Beijing’s influence over the island it claims as its territory.
China’s crackdown on makers of the drug, which has fueled the U.S. opioid crisis, may have simply created opportunities for crime syndicates elsewhere.
China’s president pledged $2 billion to fight the virus, a move the United States criticized as an effort to head off scrutiny of its handling of the pandemic.
Nations want Beijing to forgive or renegotiate loans as their economies suffer. Doing so would be costly. Saying no could hurt China’s global image.
One month later, people are learning how to navigate life on the other side of the coronavirus crisis.
The scuffles erupted as lawmakers debated the leadership of a committee that would consider legislation that would make it illegal to insult the Chinese national anthem.
The scuffles erupted as lawmakers debated the leadership of a committee that would consider legislation that would make it illegal to insult the Chinese national anthem.
An embassy worker found the body of Du Wei, 57, in his bed in a coastal suburb north of Tel Aviv, Israeli officials said. The Chinese government in preliminary findings attributed his death to unspecified health problems.
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A sharp escalation of tensions over the handling of the pandemic has raised the specter of a new Cold War.
Fang Fang’s online diary, now a book, made her a nuisance to the powers that be and a national hero to many others in China.
Los gobiernos han manejado la pandemia de distintas maneras. Una reportera vivió las medidas en carne propia.
The Commerce Department announced rules that threaten to inflict more pain on the company and upset an already rocky U.S.-China relationship.
But weak sales at stores and a stall in export orders raise fears of a possible second downturn this summer.
The economy can’t fully reopen until schools do.
Las fórmulas de reactivación laboral han sido inconsistentes y algunas medidas podrían resultar demasiado estrictas para los trabajadores de otros lugares. Aún así, el país puede establecer la vía a seguir para el resto del mundo.
The Chinese city’s goal is unrivaled in scale. But a top expert has questioned the need for it, given the low number of infections.
A commercial extolling Chinese youths has set off a debate over whether they are too nationalistic — and their prospects too limited — for the country’s good.
Cuomo or Trump? China or Europe?
The change in plans for the $600 billion Thrift Savings Plan for federal workers comes as the Trump administration ramps up criticism of China.
A reporter got a close-up look at how different governments handled the developing pandemic. Some were more impressive than others.
In leading a watchdog group, she championed campaign finance reform. John McCain called her “our general and our strategist” in pushing that fight in Congress.
Efforts to get back to business have been inconsistent and sometimes stricter than workers elsewhere might tolerate. Still, the country could set a path for the rest of the world.
The case was the latest example of the Justice Department’s efforts to combat Chinese influence on American campuses.
The case was the latest example of the Justice Department’s efforts to combat Chinese influence on American campuses.
The administration kneecaps experts as the coronavirus rages.
In the city’s Muslim Quarter, meals are a celebration of globalization and ethnic diversity — and a lasting defense against erasure.
Smaller countries like Australia are trying to build a new kind of alliance, by first investigating what went wrong in the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Refugees and unaccompanied children are the targets of summary border expulsions.
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Iran and other nations are also looking to steal data and exploit the pandemic with attacks on infrastructure, officials say.
The president wants a new cold war to deflect attention from his failures.
The president brings instability and confusion to a crisis.
The Trump administration is imposing 90-day limits on work visas for Chinese journalists, raising the threat of further retaliation by the Chinese government.
New 90-day limits on work visas for Chinese journalists followed Beijing’s expulsion of American journalists and raised the threat of further retaliation by the Chinese government.
Ekpar Asat came to the United States for the State Department’s most prestigious program for foreign citizens. Chinese security officers detained him weeks after he returned home.
The president’s comments, coming just hours after advisers said the agreement was on track, indicate an increasingly unstable relationship.
A House report found that Americans fleeing Asia and Europe to beat the president’s travel bans faced few temperature checks or other rigorous screenings to see if they were bringing the virus home.
Citing poor quality, the Food and Drug Administration prohibited dozens of companies from continuing to sell their N95-style face masks here.
The Food and Drug Administration prohibited 65 manufacturers from selling masks for medical use. But the move came after tests last month showed the masks didn’t meet standards.
It was not clear whether the scientists had found infectious virus or inert fragments, so sexual transmission of the virus still seems very unlikely.
An Israeli security company said the hacking software, called Aria-body, had been deployed against governments and state-owned companies in Australia and Southeast Asia.
Is Beijing keeping a secret? Or are the exact origins of the coronavirus still a mystery?
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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.
The virus has infected more than 6,600,000 people and has been detected in nearly every country.