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Jennifer Ho, University of Colorado Boulder The legacy of Vincent Chin has recently been commemorated in a street sign bearing his name on the corner of Cass Avenue and Peterboro Street in Detroit’s ...

An American man who worked at a U.S. military facility in Germany and allegedly offered to supply sensitive information to China has been indicted on espionage charges, German prosecutors said Monday.

The embattled property giant's shares were taken off the Hong Kong stock market on Monday.

The unexplained decision raises new concerns about the erosion of press freedom in a city transformed by Beijing’s national security law.

"Anytime there's a role that focuses, to me, on the American experience of being Asian — that's something that no matter [if] you're Korean, Chinese, Indian, Malaysian, that's something we all share ...

Disenchantment with city life, as well as improved infrastructure nationwide, has made the villages look more attractive
“People gone; buildings empty: this is the fact of daily life in the countryside,” lamented the author Liang Hong in her China in One Village. It was a grim portrait of her home town – its vitality ebbing as the forces of modern life drained it of young people, polluted its water, exploited its resources and even turned the local school into a pigsty. Its quarter of a million sales reflected not just her distinctive writing, but the familiarity of the story. As urban China prospered with the Communist party’s turn to the market, 350 million villagers migrated to the cities, leaving behind increasingly desolate settlements.
Now Beijing is promoting “rural revitalisation”. State media run a steady stream of articles lauding city dwellers who have returned to their home towns to set up cafes or run home-stays. The expansion of transport and telecommunications infrastructure has allowed rural inhabitants to expand their horizons. First came the , where at least a 10th of households were using Alibaba’s e-commerce platform. More recently, farmers – selling fruit or flowers direct to urbanites.

Officials on Hainan Island, China’s only tropical beach destination, halted public transportation. Businesses were closed in Sanya, a popular resort city on the island.

"Anytime there's a role that focuses, to me, on the American experience of being Asian - that's something that no matter [if] you're Korean, Chinese, Indian, Malaysian, that's something we all share ...

A Chinese national illegally in the US was sentenced to prison this week for exporting weapons, ammunition, and technology to North Korea.

China’s top envoy in Washington has rejected suggestions that Chinese ownership of US farmland is a national security threat, saying such claims are “completely unfounded”. Addressing a soybean ...

Clear majority backs restarting Maanshan reactor but doesn’t reach legal threshold, as president says nuclear power may be reconsidered if it becomes safe
A referendum to push for the reopening of Taiwan’s last nuclear plant has failed to reach the legal threshold to be valid, though the president said the island could return to the technology in the future if safety standards improved.
The plebiscite on Saturday, backed by the opposition, asked whether the Maanshan power plant should be reopened if it was “confirmed” there were no safety issues. The plant was closed in May as the government shifts to renewables and liquefied natural gas.

Washington’s increasing focus on Beijing is straining the decades-old alliance between South Korea and the United States.