Trump attacks on Google recycle baseless bias, poll-meddling and pro-China claims
President Donald Trump has been on a tear about Google that traces back to a series of unfounded claims about the technology giant circulating among conservatives. Among those claims: that Google interferes with U.S. elections, is biased against conservatives and prefers working with the ...
Huawei expects no relief from U.S. sanctions but is confident firm can stand on its own tech
The founder of Chinese tech giant Huawei said Tuesday he expects no relief from U.S. export curbs because of the political climate in Washington but expressed confidence the company will thrive because it is developing its own technology. Ren Zhengfei also said he doesn't want ...
China seizing more illegally trafficked ivory products from Japan, research shows
An increasing number of elephant ivory products illegally trafficked from Japan have been seized in China, following Beijing's closure of the domestic market in 2017, recent research by a U.S. conservation group showed. At least 23 cases of seizures in China were reported in the ...
Philippines' Rodrigo Duterte to visit Beijing amid South China Sea tensions
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte will visit Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping next week to raise their conflicting claims to the South China Sea, as the Filipino leader faces pressure at home to confront Beijing. While Duterte has embraced China and had largely set aside a once-tense ...
Damming the Mekong basin to environmental hell
As droughts become more frequent and severe, China's dam network gives it increasing leverage over downriver countries.
What if everyone's wrong about China?
Most predictions about China fail to account for the human capacity to shape events.
Don't let giant clams start World War III
These shells are worth a fortune, but the price in environmental damage and heightened military tensions in the South China Sea is vastly higher.
South Korea and Japan have toned down the rhetoric but show little sign of compromise in a bitter political and economic dispute as their foreign ministers prepare to meet in China this week. Relations between the two neighbors are at their worst in years, with ...
'Front-line' pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong defend tactics in wake of violence
On a recent sweltering Saturday, a day now reserved for protest in Hong Kong, a demonstrator named Wayne stepped past a row of plastic barricades, lifted a pair of binoculars and squinted. Four hundred meters away, a line of riot police stood with full-length shields, ...
U.S. test of previously banned missile raises fears of new nuclear arms race
The U.S. military has conducted a flight test of a type of missile banned for more than 30 years, under a treaty from which it bolted earlier this month, the Pentagon said Monday, in a move experts said was likely to have been closely ...
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Tuesday she hoped a peaceful weekend anti-government protest was the start of an effort to restore calm and that talks with nonviolent protesters would provide "a way out" for the China-ruled city. Hundreds of thousands of protesters rallied ...
Twitter and Facebook accuse China of spreading online discord in Hong Kong
Twitter and Facebook have accused the Chinese government of backing a social media campaign to discredit Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement and sow political discord in the city. The American tech giants announced Monday they had suspended nearly 1,000 active accounts linked to the campaign, while ...
