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American businesses are facing an increasingly risky environment in China as bilateral ties worsen and more firms are pressured.

Hostilities peaked in the Philippine-occupied Second Thomas Shoal in the Spratlys archipelago, the most fiercely contested region in the sea channel.

In a statement, Bain & Company said it was "cooperating as appropriate with the Chinese authorities," as business ties are strained amid mounting U.S.-China tension.

Authorities can swoop over anything they deem relevant to national security in toughening of law already used against expatriates or Chinese contacts
China has drastically broadened its anti-espionage laws in amendments that legal experts warn could further heighten risk to foreign individuals and organisations operating in the country.
The amendments were passed by Beijing’s rubber-stamp parliament on Wednesday afternoon. The long-foreshadowed changes broaden the law’s scope to encompass anything deemed by authorities to cover national security, and expand the search and seizure powers of authorities, as well as the implementation of entry and exit bans on individuals.

The Last Dragon, named for a 1985 kung-fu movie with Black hero, is envisioned as a corner store franchise in neighborhoods around Philly.

Li Yanhe’s publishing company put out books that often cast a critical eye on China’s ruling Communist Party. He disappeared while on a trip to China.

Senior MPs say attendance of Han Zheng, accused of breaching Sino-British treaty with Hong Kong crackdown, would be insult
Senior Conservative MPs have labelled the expected attendance of China’s vice-president at King Charles’s coronation as “outrageous”.
Han Zheng, who was recently appointed as president Xi Jinping’s deputy, is expected to represent China at the May event, Politico reported.

The giant panda has been caught in growing tensions between the U.S. and China in recent months, and has been housed at the Memphis Zoo for two decades.

Also, Xi Jinping called Volodymyr Zelensky.

The San Antonio Asian American community is weighing in after a state Senate bill that would bar people from four foreign countries from owning farmland and mineral rights in Texas was sent to the ...

Radio astronomers have captured a wide-angle image of one of the most violent locales in the cosmos.