CHINA A Chinese official says Beijing wants a prompt settlement of its trade war with Washington. A deputy commerce minister said late yesterday that Beijing wants “satisfactory
CHINA Tech-giant Huawei’s reputation has been repeatedly attacked by the United States and others over allegations of Communist Party control. Now its vaunted status at home has taken a blow
CHINA Some of the country’s wealthiest tycoons steered billions of dollars into electric-car companies in order to fuel the country’s dreams of becoming a leader in the field. Now a
CHINA’s foreign ministry urged Canada to free an executive of telecom equipment giant Huawei Technologies held for more than a year as she awaits an extradition trial. Canada arrested Huawei’s
CHINA Guidelines that require Chinese telecom carriers to use facial recognition technology on buyers of SIM cards kicked in yesterday as the country cracks down on fraud. Companies should use
TRUMP-KIM North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump have signaled their affection for each other so regularly it might be easy to miss rising
CHINA-US Top Chinese and U.S. trade negotiators have agreed to talks on a preliminary deal for resolving the tariff war between the world’s two largest economies, the Chinese Commerce Ministry
CHINA The Chinese government has detained more than a million Uighurs, Kazakhs and other ethnic minorities for what it calls voluntary job training. But a newly revealed classified
TAIWAN Filmmaker Ang Lee says China’s boycott of Taiwan’s Golden Horse film awards demonstrates how politics can take its toll on the arts. Beijing’s order to give Saturday night’s awards
CHINA’s ruling Communist Party’s newspaper has published surveillance video, which it says proves the guilt of a former British Consulate employee in Hong Kong who was detained for 15 days
CHINA A former employee of the British Consulate in Hong Kong says he was detained and tortured by Chinese secret police trying to extract information about massive anti-government protests in
TAIWAN Chinese attempts to interfere in Taiwan’s presidential election campaign are happening “every day,” the island’s leader, Tsai Ing-wen, said yesterday. Tsai gave no details, but she said China was
CHINA pressed Washington yesterday to roll back punitive tariffs in a tentative trade deal. A tariff cut is an “important condition” for the agreement that is part
JAPAN Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako waved and smiled from an open car in a parade yesterday marking Naruhito’s enthronement as more than 100,000 delighted well-wishers cheered,
CHINA President Xi Jinping yesterday hailed a visit by French President Emmanuel Macron as giving a boost to multilateralism and free trade, amid ongoing economic tensions with Washington. The two
CHINA President Xi Jinping promised more gradual market-opening steps at the start of an import fair yesterday but no initiatives on technology policy and other irritants that sparked a tariff
THAILAND Seven Southeast Asian leaders skipped an important meeting with the United States yesterday after President Donald Trump decided not to attend their regional summit in Thailand. VIETNAM Police have arrested
THAILAND Thai Airways has disclosed that its chairman has resigned as the carrier struggles with financial challenges. BANGLADESH A court in Dhaka granted bail yesterday to micro-credit pioneer and Nobel laureate
Hackers with a history of state-sponsored espionage have intercepted the text messages of thousands of foreigners in a targeted campaign that planted eavesdropping software on a telecommunications provider’s
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