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China urges US back down after Trump’s $300 billion tariff threat
China’s President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump attend a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Nov. 9, 2017. Nicolas Asfouri | AFP | Getty Images China’s foreign ministry pushed back against President Donald Trump’s latest tariff threat on Friday, reportedly saying the world’s largest economy should give …
Hong Kong police arrest pro-independence figure amid further protests | World news
Hong Kong police have arrested eight people, including a prominent pro-independence activist, on suspicion of having offensive weapons and explosives, ahead of a weekend of mass protests. On Thursday night riot police raided an industrial building in Sha Tin in Hong Kong’s New Territories. A statement said they found petrol bombs and weapons. The police …
Unclear what end game is, ex-diplomat Adelman says
Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump at the G-20 Summit in Osaka on June 29, 2019. Brendan Smialowsi | AFP | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump has been extremely unpredictable and it’s not clear what the end game of his trade war with China will be, a former American ambassador told CNBC …
Uighurs challenge China to prove missing relatives are free | World news
China’s claim most inmates have been released from mass detention centres in Xinjiang region has been met with scepticism by the Uighur diaspora, which has launched a social media campaign challenging Beijing to prove it. Rights groups and experts say more than 1 million mostly Muslim ethnic minorities have been detained in internment camps in …
Huang Qi deserves the world’s help
Activist Huang Qi works in his home in Chengdu, China, on Sept. 18, 2012. (Gillian Wong/AP) HUANG QI, one of China’s most prominent human rights activists who has already spent nearly half of the past two decades in prison and state detention, was sentenced Monday to 12 years in prison. His supposed crime was leaking …
The U.S.-China-Israel Technology Triangle | Council on Foreign Relations
Danit Gal is a consultant and researcher focusing on technology ethics, governance, safety, security, and strategy. Since the 1980s, Israel has carefully walked the U.S.-China technology tensions tightrope, trying to balance its commercial and security interests with the two great powers. The growing dual-use nature of technology threatens to overthrow Israel’s careful efforts to expand …
Ghana ‘exports rosewood timber illegally to China’
Image copyright AFP Image caption Rosewood trees grow across West Africa About six million rosewood trees have been cut down in Ghana for illegal export to China since 2012, an environmental group says. The rare species, which takes 100 years to grow, is mostly used to make imperial-style furniture in China. The report blames corrupt …
Trump rips China as stalled trade talks are set to resume
President Donald Trump ripped into China in a series of tweets Tuesday just as the two sides are set to resume stalled negotiations toward a much-anticipated trade agreement. The president claimed that China is not buying more U.S. agricultural products as it promised to do and may be slow-walking the talks as it awaits the …
Index Shows US, China Make Gains in Technology Development
A new report lists the United States among the five most innovative economies in the world. Switzerland was the top rated country on the list, known as the Global Innovation Index 2019. It is followed by Sweden, the U.S., the Netherlands and Britain. United Nations officials released the findings. The index is a project of …