Taiwan leader gets election boost from unlikely place: China

A year ago, Taiwan’s leader was on the ropes. Then she got a boost from an unexpected corner: Chinese President Xi Jinping. Polls indicate that President Tsai Ing-wen is poised to

Indonesia will not negotiate its sovereignty in South China Sea

Indonesian President Joko Widodo visited Natuna Islands yesterday amid renewed tensions with China over the lucrative fishing waters that lie between Malaysia and Borneo. Jokowi, as Widodo is popularly known, met

South Korea reports 1st possible case of viral pneumonia

South Korea has put a 36-year-old Chinese woman under isolated treatment amid concerns that she brought back a form of viral pneumonia that has sickened dozens in mainland China and

Taiwan’s blowout 5G auction shows carriers willing to pay big

Bids in Taiwan’s auction of fifth-generation networking airwaves have exceeded NT$100 billion ($3.3 billion), a sign of robust demand as carriers race to deploy new wireless networks for applications including

Judge mulls fate of US researcher who denies Chinese work

A federal judge said Monday she will delay ruling on a motion to dismiss an indictment against a University of Kansas associate professor accused of secretly working for a Chinese

Why China won’t join any Iran-Russia coalition against Trump

Beijing’s muted response to the U.S.’s killing of top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani suggests China still isn’t ready to join Russia in taking a more direct role in the Middle

Pneumonia outbreak widens to 59 amid hunt for source

A pneumonia outbreak in China that’s infected 15 more people doesn’t appear to be spreading from human to human, officials said, after ruling out SARS as

Xi meets Kiribati leader after switch from Taiwan

Chinese President Xi Jinping lauded Kiribati yesterday for “standing on the right side of history” during his first meeting with the Pacific island nation’s leader

Elon Musk plans to come to Shanghai for debut of Made-in-China Tesla

Elon Musk plans to attend a ceremony to mark the first deliveries of made-in-China Tesla Inc. vehicles to customers today, according to people familiar with the matter.

Qinghai betting on winter sports for tourism buzz

As winter arrives on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the extreme cold doesn’t seem to bother winter sports lovers heading to the mountains in northwest China’s Qinghai province for skiing and other

Taiwan defense officials meet after crash kills top officer

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen convened a meeting of top defense officials and urged them Friday to be on a lookout for military developments concerning China following a helicopter crash that

Taiwan | Tsai defends anti-infiltration law aimed at China

China has been relentless in its attempts to influence and infiltrate Taiwan’s politics and society but the island’s new ban on political interference should have no effect on normal exchanges

Copter crash kills Taiwan’s top military officer, 7 others

Taiwan’s top military official was among eight people killed in an air force helicopter crash in mountainous terrain outside Taipei yesterday, the defense ministry said. Five others survived. As chief of

Trump says he’ll sign first-step China trade deal on January 15

The first phase of a U.S.-China trade agreement will be inked at the White House in mid-January, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday, adding that he will visit Beijing at a

Huawei sales up 18% but US pressure means tough times ahead

  China’s Huawei Technologies said Tuesday that its sales rose a lower-than-projected 18% in 2019 and predicted tough times ahead as the U.S. moves to restrict its business. The flash sales estimate

China | Court convicts 3 researchers involved in gene-edited babies

A Chinese scientist who set off an ethical debate with claims that he had made the world’s first genetically edited babies was sentenced yesterday to three years in prison because

Church crackdown | Gov’t sentences pastor to 9 years on subversion charge

China yesterday sentenced a prominent pastor who operated outside the Communist Party-recognized Protestant organization to nine years in prison. The People’s Intermediate Court in the southwestern city of Chengdu said Wang

Chinese Alzheimer’s drug to launch global trials amid skepticism

A newly approved Chinese drug for Alzheimer’s will start clinical trials in the U.S. and Europe next year as the country’s first novel therapy for the incurable

Taiwan president: Island’s democracy under threat from China

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said yesterday that the self-governing island’s democracy remains under direct threat from rival China, underscoring her calls for closer ties with the U.S.

Indonesian Muslims protest China’s treatment of Uighurs

More than a thousand Muslims marched to the heavily guarded Chinese Embassy in Indonesia’s capital on Friday to protest China’s treatment of its Uighur Muslims.

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