Gee … what might the two leaders of the world’s largest economies have to discuss? The Knicks firing a coach that got them into the finals? The latest episode of The Last of Us? For the moment, we don’t know — and in fact, we only know about the call because China’s state media got...
A toddler was saved when her 11-year-old sister pulled her out of the path of a runaway electric cabin scooter in central China’s Henan town. CCTV footage obtained by Chinese state-run national broadcaster China Central Television shows the cabin scooter smashing through the glass doors of a restaurant, narrowly missing the toddler and smashing into...
Ankur Shah Editor, BBC Global China Unit BBC The sprawling city of Chongqing in southwestern China is an incredible sight. Built on mountainous terrain and crisscrossed by rivers, it is connected by vast elevated roads. Trains even run through some buildings. TikTokers have begun documenting their commutes in the striking urban architecture, generating millions of...
VURT DA FURK? It was hard enough getting used to ‘New Math,’ but in this day and age, ‘scholar’ doesn’t exactly mean anything near what it used to, either. Like, at Columbia, the argument for not deporting his hate-filled, anti-American butt is that  Khalil is a gentle Palestinian ‘scholar.’ He’s simply passionate about his people....
Australia’s defence minister Richard Marles has called on China to explain why it needs to have “such an extraordinary military build-up”. He said Beijing needs to provide greater transparency and reassurance as it is the “fundamental issue” for the region. Meanwhile, the Philippines defence minister Gilberto Teodoro Jr has called China “absolutely irresponsible and reckless”...
A British man has been indicted in the US for allegedly trying to smuggle “sensitive American military technology” to China, including missiles, air defence radar and drones. John Miller, 63, and a Chinese man, Cui Guanghai, are wanted by the FBI on charges relating to conspiracy to commit interstate stalking and conspiracy, smuggling and violations...
The court battles over tariffs got all the attention this week but that wasn’t the only sign the Trump administration is still engaged in a trade war with China. On Wednesday the administration suspended the sale of jet engines and some high tech chips and software as well. The target of these new restrictions seems...
Trade talks between the US and China are “a bit stalled”, the US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said. His comment comes less than three weeks after a temporary trade truce was agreed between the world’s two largest economies, with both agreeing to reduce tit-for-tat tariffs. Bessent told Fox News on Thursday: “I think that...
There’s more than one way to skin the cat, whether it be an Academia cat, a trade cat, or a nat-sec cat. And this method will be difficult to challenge in court. Late yesterday, Marco Rubio announced that the State Department would go for the feline-defurring hat trick. The State Department will launch a review...
A huge explosion rocked a chemical plant in China’s eastern Shandong province on Tuesday around noon, killing at least five people and injuring 19 others. Footage circulating online shows thick columns of black smoke rising from the site. More than 200 emergency workers were dispatched to Shandong Youdao Chemical factory, which according to its website...
A college in Beijing has found itself at the centre of public fury after it allegedly asked a student to prove she was on her period to qualify for sick leave. A viral video, filmed inside what appears to be a clinic and posted to social media this month, shows a young woman asking an...
The first rule in any investigation: Follow the money. The New York Post did just that with the man who slaughtered two Israeli embassy employees outside a Jewish museum this week. Isabel Vincent traces the path that Elias Rodriguez has taken over the last several years on his way to becoming a cowardly terrorist assassin,...
Katya Adler Europe editor Reporting fromNorthern Norway and Svalbard BBC As soon as Magnus Mæland became mayor of a small town on Norway’s northern tip in late 2023, three delegations from China came knocking on his door. “It’s because they want to be a polar superpower,” he tells me. China might not instinctively spring to...
Hundreds of tiles have fallen from the roof of a centuries old tower in China’s Anhui province, smashing to the ground near visitors to the site. Eyewitness footage showed sections of the roof collapsing, narrowly missing a number of people. Local media cited a Fengyang County Culture and Tourism Bureau statement that said no one...
Jonathan Head South East Asia correspondent Reporting fromPagasa Island, Philippines BBC/VIRMA SIMONETTE Fisherman Larry Hugo, right, was nearly rammed by a Chinese coastguard ship At just 37 hectares, the Philippines-controlled island of Pagasa – or “hope” – is barely big enough to live on. There is almost nothing there. The 300 or so inhabitants live...