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A fire in a residential high-rise in Urumqi, where many residents have been under lockdown, set off public anger and questions about China’s zero-Covid policy.

Before his arrest over #MeToo allegations, Kris Wu was one of China’s most popular entertainers, with legions of fans and brand deals.

Bar on telecommunications products from firms including ZTE, Dahua and Hikvision are part of latest crackdown on Chinese tech giants amid spying fears
The Biden administration has banned approvals of new telecommunications equipment from China’s Huawei Technologies and ZTE because they pose “an unacceptable risk” to US national security.
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said on Friday it had adopted the final rules, which also bar the sale or import of equipment made by Chinese surveillance equipment maker Dahua Technology, video surveillance firm Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology and telecoms firm Hytera Communications Corp.

Tsai Ing-wen takes ‘all responsibility’ for Democratic Progressive party’s poor performance on Saturday
The Taiwan president, Tsai Ing-wen, resigned as head of the ruling Democratic Progressive party (DPP) after it suffered local election losses on Saturday.
Voters in Taiwan overwhelmingly chose the opposition Nationalist party in several major races across the self-ruled island in an election in which lingering concerns about threats from China took a backseat to more local issues.

The US has outlawed the sale of Chinese-origin communications equipment made by Huawei and ZTE, prohibiting the use of some China-made surveillance systems due to an “unacceptable risk” to national ...

The US has banned approvals of new telecoms equipment from China's Huawei Technologies and ZTE because they pose “an unacceptable risk” to national security.The US Federal Communications Commission ...

The Biden administration has banned approvals of new telecommunications equipment from China's Huawei Technologies and ZTE because they pose "an unacceptable risk" to US national security.

Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe has officially apologized to a Chinese American Navy veteran who experienced discrimination in the California city around 82 years ago. Thorpe met with Alfred Chan, a ...

Political editor Katharine Murphy speaks to foreign minister Penny Wong about the value of multilateral summits, how Australia is trying to stabilise its relationship with China, and the release of an Australian academic from prison in Myanmar

The world’s biggest single-building pig farm has opened in Hubei province, but critics say it will increase the risk of larger animal disease outbreaks
On the southern outskirts of Ezhou, a city in central China’s Hubei province, a giant apartment-style building overlooks the main road. But it is not for office workers or families. At 26 storeys it is by far the biggest single-building pig farm in the world, with a capacity to slaughter 1.2 million pigs a year.
This is China’s answer to its insatiable demand for pork, the animal protein in the country.