RIO DE JANEIRO/SHANGHAIChinese workers at a construction site in Brazil for a factory owned by Chinas electric vehicle producer BYD are victims of human trafficking, Brazilian labor authorities said on Thursday in a growing controversy in BYDs biggest overseas market. BYD and contractor Jinjiang Group have agreed to assist and house the 163 workers in […]

Acute respiratory diseases are on the rise in China. One thats gaining momentum is human metapneumovirus (HMPV). Chinese authorities are also stepping up monitoring of COVID-19 and flu infections.

Shen Yun Performing Arts opened in the Texas cities of Austin and Houston on Dec. 26. One of the audience members was Lisa Manke, a sales executive, who said she was so impressed by the costumes, and the interaction of the video and the real life is incredible. Ive never seen anything like it. The […]

A couple days after a portion of the pier featured in The Lost Boys collapsed into the ocean, a scene reminiscent of Chinatown played out along the coast a few hundred miles south. The same massive winter swells that sundered the wharf in Santa Cruz pushed ashore a portion of a severed human leg in […]

Respiratory infections are on the rise in China. Plus, authorities are stepping up monitoring COVID-19 spread at over 1,000 hospitals. A Chinese Communist Party-controlled telecom company petitions to stay in the U.S. market. A U.S. appeals court is saying no. Beijing is hitting back at Washington over sending military aid to Taiwan. We have the […]

As Donald Trump prepares to take office on January 20, Europes already battered car industry is bracing for additional headwinds amid the threat of new tariffs from the incoming U.S. president. Trump has pledged to impose steep new tariffs on goods coming from China, Canada, and Mexico in one of his first acts in office, a promise that could ignite trade wars. That is bad news for European auto...

Top lawmakers, First Amendment advocacy groups and President-elect Trump weighed in Friday on a law that could ban TikTok in the U.S., as the Supreme Court prepares to take up the case. The court agreed last week to hear TikToks challenge to the law, which requires its China-based parent company ByteDance to divest from the...

Senior national security official said the United States looks to 'lock down' telecom infrastructure with stricter cybersecurity rules.

Elon Musk's years of business dealings in China through his electric car company, Tesla, are raising concerns among some Trump supporters.

The attack was one of several in China in late October and November and caused Chinese leader Xi Jinping to order local governments to take steps to prevent future extreme cases.

Oil prices are on track to post a weekly gain on the back of China's economic stimulus and forecasts of lower U.S. crude inventories.Oil prices were rising toward the end of the week, with WTI breaking back above $70 and Brent trading at $73.72. Optimism surrounding China's economic growth after Beijing agreed to issue special treasury bonds worth roughly $411 billion helped to spark bullish senti...

A former Chinese official is sounding alarm over the communist regimes forced organ harvesting based on his own experience in China. Du Wen, a former executive director of the Legal Advisory Office of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Government, was wrongfully imprisoned by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for 12 years before going abroad and […]

Since winning the 2024 election, Trump has warned of imposing additional tariffs on U.S. imports from China, Canada and Mexico.

The sanctions freeze any assets the targeted companies may hold in China and bar Chinese entities and individuals from conducting business with them.

The sanctions generally have a limited impact, because American defense companies don't sell arms or other military goods to China.