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Commentators call for a boycott of the chain in China after it told the BBC it does not use Xinjiang cotton.

Dong Yuyu was detained in 2022 after meeting Japanese diplomats named agents of ‘espionage organisation’
A veteran Chinese state media journalist has been sentenced by a Beijing court to seven years in prison on espionage charges, his family has said.
Dong Yuyu, a senior columnist at the Communist party newspaper Guangming Daily, was detained in February 2022 along with a Japanese diplomat at a Beijing restaurant.

Dong Yuyu, who has written articles critical of the Communist Party, was arrested in 2022 while having lunch with a Japanese diplomat.

We tracked $86 million in U.S. money that was supposed to go toward panda conservation in China.

A Times investigation found that zoos knew conservation money went toward apartment buildings and roads. But they wanted to keep displaying pandas, so nobody looked too closely.

American zoos have dished out millions to China for panda conservation projects, but the money has instead largely been spent ...

Two cables in the Baltic Sea linking Sweden to Lithuania, and Finland to Germany, were damaged.

Dong Yuyu, a senior staffer at the Guangming Daily and a Harvard Nieman Fellow, has been detained since 2022.

The Chinese and Russian military aircraft flew "for an extended period without prior notice," South Korea's defense ministry said.

The Chinese and Russian military aircraft flew "for an extended period without prior notice," South Korea's defense ministry said.

Fodder for protectionism, protracted trade wars, and the ‘most beautiful word’ in Donald Trump’s vocabulary – how do tariffs actually work?
A tariff is a imposed on goods when they cross national borders, often used by governments against trading partners they disagree with or to protect local industries.
Tariffs slapped on foreign imports make them more expensive, ostensibly providing a price advantage to locally made goods, while also .

Dong Yuyu’s detention on espionage charges shows how the space for independent thought and open discussion in China has narrowed since Xi Jinping took power in 2012.