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Anti-Asian hate surged online following President Trump’s November victory, with South Asian communities targeted the most, according to data from Stop AAPI Hate.  In a report released Thursday, ...

Record-breaking film Ne Zha 2 is a symbol of Chinese pride - fans are shutting down criticism of it.

Ships’ presence off east coast follows incident in South China Sea in which a Chinese fighter jet released flares in front of Australian military plane
Australia will “watch every move” of three Chinese warships which have been detected off the country’s east coast, the defence minister has said.
Three People’s Liberation Army-Navy vessels – the Jiangkai-class frigate Hengyang, the Renhai-class cruiser Zunyi and the Fuchi-class replenishment vessel Weishanhu – were detected off north-east Queensland last week and have been surveilled since as they have sailed south. The Financial Times reported the ships were about 150 nautical miles off the coast of Sydney.

In decades spent convincing world leaders to protect human rights, I’ve learned a thing or two about working with his type
The common wisdom is that Donald Trump’s foreign policy will be . Certainly his penchant for embracing autocrats and breaching norms bodes poorly, such as his to force two million Palestinians out of Gaza – which would be a blatant war crime – or his suggestion that Ukraine is to blame for Russia’s invasion. But Trump also likes to cut a deal, as shown by his paradoxically positive role in securing the current (precarious) . If Trump the dealmaker can be nudged in the right direction, he might, against all odds, be brought to play a productive role for human rights.
As executive director of Human Rights Watch, I spent more than three decades devising strategies to pressure or cajole leaders to better respect rights. I have dealt with brutal dictators, self-serving autocrats and misguided democrats. My experience shows that there is always an angle – something the leader cares about – that can be used to steer them in a more rights-respecting direction.
Kenneth Roth is a former executive director of Human Rights Watch and author of
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Poorer countries want rapid emission cuts and more financial help in face of US leader’s stance on global heating
Developing countries are calling on the rich world to defy the US president, Donald Trump, and bridge the global chasm over climate action, before the goal of limiting global temperatures to safe levels is irretrievably lost.
Diplomats from the developing world are rallying to support , after last year’s talks in Azerbaijan ended in disappointment and acrimony.

The heads of four major labor unions are calling on President Donald Trump to boost American shipbuilding and enforce tariffs and other “strong penalties” against China for its increasing dominance ...

She was the first descendant of a Chinese immigrant to win elective office in New York State. She was also the state’s first female jurist of Asian heritage.

China’s investment into North America dropped at the end of last year below levels seen during the worst of the pandemic, a slump caused by hurdles in the US and likely exacerbated by a wait-and-see ...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Tuesday urged Washington and Beijing to find a way to "get along" and stabilise ties. "We should find the right way to get along and explore more significant, ...

Study found electric vehicles and batteries added largest amount to country’s clean-energy economy
Clean energy contributed a record 10% of China’s gross domestic product in 2024, an analysis has found.
With sales and investments worth 13.6tn yuan (£1.5tn; $1.9tn), the sector has now overtaken real estate sales in value.

Asian Americans for Texas, working with other civic groups such as the Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) and Asian Texans for Justice (ATJ), is organizing an AAPI Day of Action on Feb 24.

US talks with Russia over Ukraine’s future, like the president’s prescription for Gaza, highlights how business and foreign policy merge
The Trump administration did not take red lines on Ukraine to its in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday: it cares about the bottom line. The secretary of state, Marco Rubio, underscored that when he the two sides would create a team, not only to support Ukraine peace talks but also to explore the “incredible opportunities” to partner with Moscow geopolitically “and, frankly, economically” that might result.
Kyiv and other European capitals are still reeling at the full extent of Donald Trump’s cynicism when it comes to world affairs, and callous disregard for the people caught up in them. But it should be no surprise that business dealings were high on the agenda. Vladimir Putin would dearly love to end his country’s economic isolation. Russia is that American energy firms and others could profit handsomely by doing business with it again.
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