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Antony Blinken criticises China’s state boarding schools that ‘seek to eliminate Tibet’s distinct linguistic, cultural and religious traditions’
The United States will impose visa sanctions on Chinese officials pursuing “forced assimilation” of children in Tibet, where UN experts say one million children have been separated from their families.
Secretary of state Antony Blinken said the US would restrict visas to Chinese officials behind the policy of state boarding schools, in the latest in a series of US moves on Beijing that comes despite a resumption of high-level dialogue.

"Asian in Ohio," an online exhibit from Toldeo-based Midstory, features stories from Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Arkon, Dayton and Toledo.

The U.S. says a Chinese navy ship cut in front of an American destroyer in the Taiwan Strait, forcing the destroyer to slow down to avoid a collision. June 5, 2023 Philippine security officials have ...

Some US legislators want the US-China Science and Technology Agreement, renewed every five years since 1979, to be allowed to expire this month
In 1991, about 25 babies in every 100,000 in the United States were born with spina bifida, a birth defect that can cause paralysis and brain damage. Fifteen years later, the likelihood had fallen by nearly one-third. That so many babies could be spared such a fate was thanks to the simple discovery that folic acid supplements could dramatically reduce the chances of neural tube defects, which cause spina bifida and anencephalus, a rarer condition.
It was “one of the great successes of public health,” according to Tom Frieden, a former director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – and it was a success that was established in China during a collaboration between researchers from the CDC in Atlanta and Peking University Health Science Center in Beijing.

Russian president addresses group at South Africa summit, blaming western sanctions for causing volatility in global markets
Vladimir Putin has told a summit of the Brics group of countries in South Africa that it should become a trading bloc representing the “global majority”.
However, differences among the group – comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – have become apparent at the summit over accepting new members, and whether to turn Brics into a geopolitical counterweight to the west.

Imagine if the United States treated China in the same way it does us? What if American companies simply ignored Chinese copyrights and patents and stole Chinese ideas, inventions and intellectual ...

A new biography of Anna May Wong, “Daughter of the Dragon,” is intended as a form of reclamation and subversion.

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The leaders from the five-member group of nations — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — are discussing expanding the club, which harbors ambitions of becoming a geopolitical alternative to Western-led forums.

The trip by Gina Raimondo, the secretary of commerce, comes at a tense moment for the U.S.-China relationship and the Chinese economy.

Talented American football player Taylor Rapp used to be embarrassed about being part-Asian. The 22-year-old Chinese-American, who plays for the Los Angeles Rams in the National Football League ...

This is the first time an Asian American actor will be playing Cyrano in a major regional theatre production, as well as the first time an Asian American director-led ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’ will be ...