The U.S. unveiled visa and export restrictions against Chinese state-owned companies and their executives involved in advancing Beijing’s territorial claims in the contested South China Sea.
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Beijing alleged that a U.S. spy plane entered a no-fly zone over an area where the Chinese military was conducting live-fire drills, condemning the overflight as a provocative act.
China’s inflation-adjusted economic output is projected to expand to roughly 70% of that of the U.S. this year—a seven-percentage-point increase and China’s largest advance on the U.S. in a single year.
Heavy rains that again swelled the Yangtze River are expected to hit China’s Three Gorges Dam with its largest-ever flood this week as storms displaced millions of people and caused billions of dollars in economic damage.
The Chinese leader has unleashed a clean-up of the country’s powerful domestic-security apparatus, indicating he is facing thorny concerns at home.
With China closing in on a coronavirus vaccine, Beijing’s top officials and some of its drugmakers have begun promising early access to countries of strategic interest as it seeks to shore up its global standing after a pandemic that has strained geopolitical ties.
Factories continued to lead the recovery, but retail sales remained in negative territory, defying expectations for a second straight month of a return to pre-coronavirus levels.
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said she wants to start talks on a free-trade pact with the U.S., part of a broad effort to deepen her island democracy’s partnership with Washington and resist pressure from Beijing.
With the world in recession and U.S.-China tensions deepening, President Xi Jinping is laying out a major initiative to accelerate China’s shift toward more reliance on its domestic economy.
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar fired fresh barbs at China’s handling of the coronavirus during a rare, high-level visit to Taiwan, revisiting the Trump administration’s blame game with Beijing over the pandemic.
Beijing stepped in to settle uncertainty over a controversial yearlong delay to Hong Kong’s legislative elections, approving plans to keep the city’s current lawmakers in office for at least 12 more months.
China’s campaign to quash dissent in Hong Kong accelerated with the arrest of pro-democracy media baron Jimmy Lai, sending an ominous signal about the future of a free press and the new limits on those challenging Beijing’s tightening grip on the former British colony.
China said it would impose sanctions on 11 U.S. citizens, including Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, in retaliation for similar measures by Washington against Hong Kong and mainland Chinese officials.
What we know about media magnate Jimmy Lai and Apple Daily, the newspaper that he created and turned into a major advocate of democratic values in Hong Kong.
An explanation of why Beijing decided to bypass Hong Kong’s legislature and impose new national-security legislation on the city.
China has imposed the death penalty on a second Canadian citizen for drug-related offenses in as many days, amid a deepening diplomatic row centered on Canada’s arrest of a well-connected Chinese tech executive.
Hong Kong is offering residents free coronavirus testing as it battles its biggest outbreak yet, with government leaders trying to reassure citizens suspicious of the intentions of the Chinese technicians and pop-up labs crossing over from the mainland to assess the spread of Covid-19.
Despite rising political tensions, American brands have suffered little commercial fallout among Chinese consumers, enabling them to capitalize on the economic rebound in China.
A Chinese court imposed the death penalty on a Canadian citizen charged with producing illicit drugs, in a case that could further strain already frayed ties between Beijing and Ottawa.
Beneath expressions of anger at Washington, two camps at opposite ends of China’s political spectrum like Trump’s confrontational approach—for different reasons.
