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BEIJING—Pakistani businessmen whose wives and children are trapped in China‘s Xinjiang region are traveling to Beijing to lobby their embassy, in hopes that Pakistan’s new government will pressure its ally for their release. Beijing has faced an outcry from activists, some governments and U.N. human rights experts over mass detentions and strict surveillance of the […]

HONG KONG/BEIJING—China has denied a request for a U.S. warship to visit Hong Kong, the U.S. consulate in the Chinese city said on Sept. 25, amid rising tension between Beijing and Washington over trade and a U.S. decision to sanction the Asian nation’s military. The amphibious assault ship Wasp had been due to make a […]

Why the U.S. State Department's rare sanctions on China have far-reaching implications for Beijing.

Pyongyang’s newest engagements with its neighbors and the United States, including a groundbreaking summit held June 12 between Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump in Singapore, suggest that North Korea may be trying to rid itself of its role as a Chinese client.

Asian elephants in Burma are being poached at an alarming rate—all to meet soaringdemand for the animal’s skin in China, where it’s considered a potent traditional medicine. “Elephant skins? Give me four hours, and I’ll get you anything from the hunters in the jungle,” a shopkeeper at a pharmacy in Kyaikto, a town in southeastern […]

HONG KONG–Hong Kong authorities formally banned a group that’s promoting independence from China—the first outlawing of a political organization since Britain handed its former colony back to Chinese rule in 1997. John Lee, the city’s secretary for security, announced the banning of the Hong Kong National Party in a brief statement published in the government’s […]

Financing platforms created by local governments in China should file for bankruptcy if they don’t have the funds to repay their debts, according to a guideline jointly issued by the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) general office and state council general office on Sep. 13. These so-called local financing platforms refer to financial products offered in […]

MALE–The opposition was awarded victory in the Maldives presidential election on Sept. 24, in a possible setback for China as the new leaders of the Indian Ocean archipelago nation aim to review major projects agreed with the outgoing administration. Incumbent Abdulla Yameen, who had cultivated ties with both Beijing and Saudi Arabia, conceded defeat after […]

MINNEAPOLIS/NEW YORK—With the Chinese billionaire Richard Liu at her Minneapolis area apartment, a 21-year-old University of Minnesota student sent a WeChat message to a friend in the middle of the night. She wrote that Liu had forced her to have sex with him. “I was not willing,” she wrote in Chinese on the messaging application […]

WASHINGTON–U.S. tariffs that hit some $200 billion worth of Chinese products on Sept. 24 spare many high-profile consumer technology items such as “smart” watches and speakers, but the less flashy home modems, routers and internet gateways that make them work weren’t so lucky. Consumer tech industry officials and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency […]

BEIJING—X-Men star Fan Bingbing’s Beijing management office is dark and abandoned. Her birthday passed almost unremarked in China’s hyper-adrenalized social media environment. For one of China’s best known stars and a rising Hollywood actress, Fan’s vanishing is stunning, coming amid vague allegations of tax fraud and possibly other infractions that could have put her at […]

Hungary’s efforts to bolster ties with Beijing in recent years has come under scrutiny from local politicians and media. During a trip to the Central European country in 2011, former Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said that Hungary would become a gateway to the European market. Wen’s trip marked the first meeting for the 16+1 platform—and […]

A professor at Guizhou University has been fired for voicing criticism of the Chinese Communist Party.

China’s manufacturing and export sectors are getting clobbered by U.S. tariffs

Despite continued doom and gloom in mainstream media, the risk that the United States and China would engage in a protracted, full-on trade war is subsiding.

As more U.S. tariffs are set to take effect, manufacturers of products ranging from memory chips to machines tools are shifting production from China. 

The Vatican signed an agreement with Beijing on Sept. 22 that would allow the Chinese authorities to appoint China’s bishops, in a move that critics say is capitulating to the Chinese regime. The Catholic Church in China, which is sanctioned by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), said on Sept. 23 it would “persevere to walk […]

MELBOURNE—Event organizers suspect the Chinese consulate is behind Victoria University’s (VU) inexplicable cancellation of “In the Name of Confucius”—an award-winning documentary that exposes a darker side of the so-called Confucius Institutes. VU is home to one of Australia’s 14 Confucius Institutes. CIs are Chinese state-run culture and language programs, which are widely seen as part […]

In the Qing Dynasty, there was a person who lived in Chiayi State of Taiwan. His name was Lin Dengzhang, and he was very kind and honest. But unfortunately, he was falsely accused and imprisoned. His wife sold all their property and even their son in order to have enough money to get her husband […]

ISLAMABAD—Pakistan is urging China to ease pressures on the country’s Muslim minority amid warnings by human rights groups that the Uyghurs in China face restrictions on religious activities and mass detentions in so-called “re-education camps.” Pakistan’s minister for religious affairs, Noorul Haq Qadri, met Chinese envoy Yao Xing this week to discuss the situation of […]