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All the rage: Chinese vent their stress in Beijing 'anger room'
It took Smash customer Qiu Siyu just a few sharp blows with a baseball bat to wreck what looked like an old car radio, after which two friends battered telephones, audio speakers, rice cookers and even a mannequin. All three paid 158 yuan ($23) to ...
A 49-year-old man injured 20 children with a hammer Tuesday inside a primary school in China's capital, officials said. Three of the children have serious but non-life-threatening injuries, the Xicheng district government said on its social media account, adding that the attack took place at ...
Australia seeing surge in theft of company secrets by China: report
China has sharply escalated cyberattacks on Australian companies this year in a "constant, significant effort" to steal, according to a report published Tuesday. The investigation by Fairfax Media and commercial broadcaster Channel Nine comes just days after U.S. Vice President Mike Pence accused Beijing, at ...
Sign of easing tensions, U.S. and China to hold top-level security talks
The United States and China will hold top-level security talks on Friday, the State Department announced, in a sign of easing tensions after months of escalation over trade and regional disputes. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will host their ...
Panasonic teams up with Chinese hot pot chain Haidilao to open robot restaurants
In Haidilao International Holding Ltd.'s hot pot restaurants, robots are replacing chefs and waiters. Asia's biggest listed restaurant chain by market value is partnering with Panasonic Corp. to open what the two companies say is the world's first eatery with a fully automated kitchen on ...
China says it can't hold U.S. trade talks with 'knife to the throat'
China said on Tuesday it was impossible to hold trade talks with the United States while Washington is imposing tariffs that are like "holding a knife to someone's throat." Speaking a day after Washington activated tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods, vice commerce minister ...
Beijing basks in bluest skies in a decade as campaign against smog pays off
Beijing residents have been breathing some of the cleanest air in a decade as they begin to reap the benefits of China's anti-smog push. Of the seven lowest monthly pollution readings in the capital city since 2008, five have been recorded since the beginning of ...
U.S. Embassy in Beijing targeted by lone assailant with 'firework device'
A bomb exploded outside the U.S. Embassy in Beijing early Thursday afternoon, wounding the lone assailant, the embassy said in a statement. Police described the weapon merely as a "firework device." The explosion happened in a public space off the southeast corner of the embassy ...
China lashed out Wednesday at Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen after she urged the international community in an interview to "constrain" China before it does irreparable damage to global democracy. Her comments are "misleading and totally baseless," the spokesman for Beijing's Taiwan Affairs Office told a ...
Mattis becomes first U.S. defense chief to visit China under Trump
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Tuesday became the first Pentagon chief to visit China since 2014, starting a three-day trip with a goal of improving security dialogue with Beijing despite increasingly fraught Sino-U.S. relations. Mattis, a former Marine general, has been highly critical of ...
France, Australia call on China to observe rules in South Pacific
French President Emmanuel Macron and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Wednesday issued a reminder to China to respect a "rules-based" order in the South Pacific amid concerns about Beijing's growing influence in the region. Macron also stepped up his calls for the renegotiation of ...
