Volvo’s Polestar opens Chengdu factory to export to Europe, US

Amid rising trade tension, Volvo’s electric brand, Polestar, is going ahead with plans to export its first Chinese-made model to the United States next year, the

China ban on some textbooks seen as aimed at Uighur culture

For 15 years, Yalqun Rozi skillfully navigated state bureaucracies to publish textbooks that taught classic poems and folk tales to millions of his fellow minority

China lets yuan sink, Trump says serious talks to start

China allowed its yuan to sink yesterday and U.S. President Donald Trump said the two sides will talk “very seriously” about their war over trade and

Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif in Beijing for talks

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is meeting with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing following a surprise visit to the Group of Seven summit in France.

US exports to lobster-loving China go off cliff amid tariffs

U.S. lobster exports to China have fallen off a cliff this year as new retaliatory tariffs shift the seafood business farther north. China, a huge

Technology | Vietnam prefers its mobile networks to be free of Huawei

Vietnam is intent on being the first Asean nation to provide a 5G network - without China’s tech powerhouse Huawei Technologies Inc. Viettel Group, Vietnam’s

Trump signals some regret on China trade war

President Donald Trump signaled regret yesterday for an escalating trade war with China, as he faces a tense reception from world leaders meeting amid mounting anxiety

US ‘starting to lose China,’ says Global Times’ Hu Xijin

China will follow through with retaliatory measures announced Friday and fight the trade war to the end, in the face of the U.S.’s failure to keep

Beijing warns US tariffs will ‘escalate trade friction’

China appealed to Washington yesterday to “meet each other halfway” and settle a trade war instead of going ahead with planned tariff hikes Beijing warned will trigger

China ‘will not sit idly by’ over US arms sale to Taiwan

China “will not sit idly by” if the U.S. proceeds with a sale of advanced F-16V fighter jets to Taiwan, a senior Chinese army officer said

Tariff War | Beijing appeals to US to ‘meet halfway’ on trade

Beijing appealed to Washington yesterday to “meet China halfway” and end a tariff war after President Donald Trump said Americans might need to endure economic pain to

China says it will sanction US firms over Taiwan warplanes

China says it will impose sanctions on U.S. companies involved in plans for an $8 billion sale of F-16 fighters to Taiwan. Chinese Foreign Ministry

Beijing says British consulate staffer detained 15 days

China said yesterday a staffer at the British consulate in Hong Kong has been given 15 days of administrative detention in the city of Shenzhen

Chinese woman accused of Mar-a-Lago trespass angers judge

A Chinese woman accused of trespassing at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club and lying to Secret Service agents is frustrating the federal judge hearing her case as

Twitter shuts Chinese accounts targeting Hong Kong protests

Twitter said it has suspended more than 200,000 accounts that it believes were part of a Chinese government influence campaign targeting the protest movement in Hong

Britain concerned about consular employee missing in China

The British foreign ministry said it is “extremely concerned” about an employee of its consulate in Hong Kong who has been missing since crossing into China on

Slain Chinese scholar’s family to give $20K for help in case

The parents of a University of Illinois scholar from China who was abducted and killed two years ago are giving at least $20,000 to people who provided

Urgency for vaccine grows as virus ravages China’s pigs

Scientists are working to develop a vaccine to help guard the world’s pork supply as a deadly virus ravages Asia’s pig herds. Farmers have long contained its spread by

Gov’t lashes out at Taiwan over Hong Kong asylum offer

China lashed out at Taiwan on yesterday over its offer of political asylum to participants in Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protest movement, a day after hundreds of

Chinese pop stars publicly back Beijing on Hong Kong

At least eight pop stars from mainland China and one each from Taiwan and Hong Kong are publicly stating their support for Beijing’s one-China policy,

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