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The largest city in the world is as big as Austria, but few people have ever heard of it. The megacity of 34 million people in central of China is the emblem of the fastest urban revolution on the planet. The Communist party decided 30 years ago to unify and populate vast rural areas, an experiment that has become a symbol of the Chinese ability to reshape the world

Chinese exporters in a slew of industries are setting up US facilities to escape crippling tariffs – but doing so is often far from easy.

Expulsion of people holding a Chinese passport or ID card prompts debate over identity, loyalty and freedom
Taiwan has launched a crackdown on holders of illegal Chinese identity documents, revoking the Taiwanese status of more than 20 people and putting tens of thousands of Chinese-born residents under scrutiny.
Under Taiwan law it is illegal for Taiwanese people to hold Chinese identity documents. In the past decade, hundreds of people have had their Taiwanese papers or passports cancelled for also holding Chinese ID, effectively revoking their citizenship.

The Asian-American Native Hawaiian Pacific Island market will come to the Stutz complex next month. Patrick Armstrong, an Indianapolis podcaster and storyteller, says the event will bring the AANPHI ...

Oakland Ballet Company takes on a harrowing chapter of US-Chinese history with a piece about Angel Island, ‘the Ellis Island of the west’
One sunny March day on Angel Island, a hilly landmass in the middle of the Bay, a dancer with a 40-ft braid attached to her head glided across a narrow concrete walkway. The audience sat on chairs in front of a long wooden building: a former detention center where – from 1910 to 1940 – half a million people, the majority Chinese, were held for months, even years, in prison-like conditions.
Sometimes called “the Ellis Island of the west”, Angel Island’s is the unlikely setting, and inspiration, for an ambitious new work by the Oakland Ballet Company. It’s based on the people from 80 countries who were confined to the the island’s detention center, which was the result of the Chinese Exclusion Act and other racist laws designed to keep Asian people out of the United States. In response, the detainees carved over 200 poems onto the walls expressing their anguish and rage.

Small businesses will have no choice but to raise prices, cut staff, delay growth plans or shut down entirely just to keep up with the rising costs of imports they can’t source domestically, one ...

Small businesses will have no choice but to raise prices, cut staff, delay growth plans or shut down entirely just to keep up with the rising costs of imports they can’t source domestically, one ...

Pam Bondi, US attorney general, says conduct of federal employees who leak information to media is ‘treasonous’. This blog is now closed.
Apple is reportedly planning to switch assembly of all iPhones for the US market to India as the company seeks to reduce its reliance on a Chinese manufacturing base amid Donald Trump’s trade war.
The $3tn (£2.3tn) technology company aims to make the shift as soon as next year, the Financial Times .

DoE investigation revives reports that UC Berkeley failed to disclose Chinese funding for a now severed partnership
The launched an investigation into the University of , Berkeley, on Friday centered on foreign funding, making it the latest university to be targeted by the federal government.
The investigation revives criticism from several years ago about the university’s partnership with China’s Tsinghua University. It comes after earlier this week signed a series of executive orders that he views as liberal adversaries to his political agenda.

At a formerly grand hotel where the famed martial arts star once stayed, a group of collectors is trying to preserve vestiges of the city’s past as its political identity changes.

President Trump said that “we’re meeting with China” on tariffs, comments aimed at soothing jittery financial markets. But Chinese officials say no talks have taken place.

Many Asian American women treat gold as an asset as well as an adornment. Now, their daughters are changing how they wear these precious metals. Farah Khalid holds the same necklace that her ...