China has just replaced its top representative in Hong Kong with a senior Communist Party official who has a track record as a tough enforcer of stringent security policies.
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China's own car brands have overtaken multinationals' joint ventures in sales in the Chinese market, the world's largest, as Chinese automakers have moved much faster to introduce electric cars.
A nearly invisible ship on a moonless night: why a tanker and the Singapore port authority did not see U.S.S. McCain
In just 5 weeks after the Wuhan lockdown, China imported 2 billion masks, equal to 2-1/2 months of worldwide mask production.
China now makes most of the world's masks, but has exported almost none for the past seven weeks. It is now looking at ways to restart exports, but hospitals around the world are already running out just as the coronavirus hits.
China Bought the West Time. The West Squandered It. "Why did so many countries watch the epidemic unfold for weeks as though it was none of their concern?" By
The city of Beijing has tested 11 million people for coronavirus in 3 weeks. Cities in the United States are struggling to test a small fraction of that, partly for lack of chemical reagents and other supplies.
China begins to retaliate against the latest Trump tariffs, but delays its tariff increase until June 1, like most of the Trump tariffs, to allow more time for talks.
Must-see graphic/video tracking the spread of the virus from Wuhan to cities across China and then around the world. nyti.ms/33CezA7
Can Europe still hope to compete with China in solar power? One last brave attempt is underway in Sicily
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How did Wuhan beat the virus? Contact tracing and a 76-day lockdown helped. But Wuhan also removed from the community all those who were infected plus all of their close contacts, and put them in hospital beds, bunks in stadiums or hotel rooms depending on health. 3/x
Confirmed: Beijing says it will draft new security law for Hong Kong. nytimes.com/2020/05/21/wor
North Korean spent missile segment pulled from ocean turns out to be full of parts bought in China. washingtonpost.com/world/national
Who is the Islamist group which Sri Lankan officials are citing for involvement in the Easter Sunday bombings, and did they have international help? Here is a considerably longer version of our earlier story, with more details. nyti.ms/2GzOB6F
Returning to Wuhan this month, I found it almost the same as during my visits in the years before the pandemic. Restaurants are full. Retirees swim in the Yangtze. Shoppers crowd the malls. w/ , , 1/x
Spectacular view of Shanghai’s Bund from the roof of the new Museum of Art Pudong.
Trying to sum up Hong Kong in 2,500 words after 14 years as bureau chief is tough, but here's my best try
Spectacular view this morning looking east at Shanghai’s skyline as Tropical Storm Rumbia approaches. I seldom take photos, but could not resist this one.
Profile of Carrie Lam in . Anson Chan says, “She was never a team player, and ever since she took up this post, she has become ever more authoritarian.”
Death toll in China highway tunnel flooding "probably would have been higher had it not been for a semiretired special forces commando who swam back and forth among the bobbing, colliding vehicles to rescue drowning drivers as their cars filled with water"
China's massive campaign this autumn to dig and burn additional coal is the equivalent in CO2 emissions of adding an entire Australia or Mexico.
"Three years ago, Zhang Jinlu woke in terror when the rain-weakened mud brick walls of his home gave way." But the Chinese government built him a new, concrete house next door, part of a poverty alleviation program that actually works. 1/x
U.S. presses China to free Ivanka Trump labor activists nyti.ms/2sNYSlJ Activist held 9 days in room with 20 men, urinate in bucket
Irresponsible in terms of #coronavirus and traffic safety at the same time? 3 people in an Audi A8 maintained an average speed of 105 mph through 26 hours 38 minutes to set a record for a transcontinental drive, the Cannonball Run.
Beijing is trying to move faster than Shanghai did in addressing a coronavirus outbreak. “It’s cheaper to act earlier than to act later,” said .
Rich 18-year-old from China: hard to fit backpack, textbooks and laundry in a Lamborghini nyti.ms/1SKTl4V
China's legislature has approved a resolution mandating a stringent national security law for Hong Kong, despite pleas from many countries not to do so.
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To see beds for coronavirus patients in Wuhan today, you need to visit a museum. 5/x
Clever analysis on Hong Kong protests and fashion and China’s ban on shipments of black clothing, by . “Imagine a world where you couldn’t wear black.”
China makes most of the world’s surgical masks and respirators and bought up much of the world’s inventory of medical masks. Now it dominates production as the rest of the world’s hospitals desperately need masks to cope with the #coronavirus.
China has been pushing around Taiwan ever since Tsai Ing-wen was elected 2 years ago. Some members of Congress and the administration are cautiously starting to push back. nyti.ms/2BIGL8x
China has lent huge sums to poor countries at adjustable interest rates. The underlying rate, before adding several percentage points, has climbed from 0.3% to 4.2% so far this year. So borrowers across Africa, Asia and Latin America suddenly owe more. 1/x
China is gearing up fast to dig an extra 220 million tons of coal a year, a full 1% jump in humanity's emissions of carbon dioxide, the main climate change gas.
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Will governments in the United States and elsewhere also be able to send coronavirus patients' beds to museums? We must all hope so.
After the Yellen visit to Beijing: the Biden administration's China strategy going forward.
Florida mandated backup generators for gas stations after hurricane in 2005 but nursing homes fought off requirement tampabay.com/news/politics/
Chinese economy reviving? So many cars of people going home from work in Shanghai this evening that outbound lanes of main expressway moving very slowly indeed at rush hour.
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As 2 Canadians held by China in indoor isolation under bright lights 24 hours a day and interrogated extensively without access to lawyers, Canada allows Huawei executive to move from $6 million house to $16 million house.
Covid is surging in mainland China. Cases detected on Thursdays and announced on Fridays: 3 weeks ago, 60. 2 weeks ago, 104. A week ago, 117. Today, 1,100.
Beijing's air pollution is much better now than it was in 2013, although still 3 times the smog in Los Angeles. Air quality in Delhi is much worse.
I went today to the latest Kushner roadshow event in Shanghai, where they promoted U.S. visas to investors. Security was tight.
China is not just censoring online comment. Police are increasingly showing up at people's doors and dragging them away to question them about what they wrote. must-read by nyti.ms/39U2xVn
Why does a 5-year-old need a 15-page résumé? Brutal competition to enter good schools in China
Smugglers will wipe out an ape family to steal one infant and sell it. of went on a sting. nyti.ms/2j1lksf
As the global auto industry makes a once-in-a-century transition from gasoline to electricity, China is jumping to a very large lead in electric car production. 1/x
President Trump's Secretary of Transportation comes from a leading shipping family with ships chartered to companies that mainly use them on routes to and from China. nyti.ms/2JRCBjK
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Wuhan today is a city that has awoken from a nightmare. Those who lost loved ones to the virus are often still deeply bitter. But most people met on the street, in parks or markets or even on the banks of the Yangtze describe how they have turned a page in their lives. 2/x
China now emits more CO2 from burning fossil fuels than the U.S. and Europe combined -- and China's emissions of this climate-changing gas resumed rising last year
One of the more unusual categories of Chinese infrastructure spending: building urban parks. Construction has moved into high gear since the pandemic began. 1/x
China's Communist Party-dominated political system has trouble communicating with financial markets. A data delay now evokes memories of China's poorly communicated currency devaluation in August, 2015.
I will move to Shanghai as bureau chief for The New York Times there, to cover economics and business in China, and have my visa.
Drought in Sichuan is creating hydropower shortages for parts manufacturers in central China, and that could ripple through supply chains to bigger factories in coastal China.
#Breaking: The world's main producer of rare earth magnetic powders, essential for electric cars, is moving into mining rare earths to create a European mines-to-magnets supply chain and limit dependence on ore from Russia.
While many companies in the West try to catch up with China on lithium batteries, China is already trying another technology: sodium batteries.
The American Greatness of Ian Grillot: shot while bravely trying to help two Indians thebea.st/2mlzZvg
The world is shifting to electric cars. A Chinese company already leads in making the batteries and has a supply chain reaching all the way to mines in western China and Africa. w/.
CBS Censors a ‘Good Fight’ Segment. Its Topic Was Chinese Censorship. No joke: CBS was willing to let the show go after Russian troll farms and Trump, but not China. Beijing’s soft power keeps increasing.
Less than two weeks after tweaking "zero Covid" policies to make them less of a burden on local governments and the economy, China is already expanding lockdowns again and reimposing mass testing.
China’s ‘OK Boomer’ generation clash: China’s ultra-nationalist youth is fed up with the willingness of an older generation to acknowledge that China has any imperfections. By
China tried to lease 13% of El Salvador, but was rebuffed as the financing was murky and as American diplomats issued warnings.
Russia's halt of natural gas shipments to Europe during the Ukraine war has unexpectedly left many families in China with very little heat during record-setting cold weather.
Hong Kong, long a model city, now deeply troubled as 20th anniversary of handover approaches: an overview of issues
China, worried about smog and dependence on imported oil, is forcing global automakers to shift toward electric cars
China’s new micro lenders track your cell phone location, take your phone contact lists and other data from your smartphone, use them to seek repayment of loans issued at usurious rates. Strong story by
How hard is it now to travel to China? “Leave your partner and children behind. Quarantine for up to a month. Get inoculated with a Covid-19 vaccine from China, if you can find one. And prepare yourself for an anal swab.”
China burns more coal than the rest of the world combined, mainly for electricity. Now it is forcing electricity companies into a national carbon market. nyti.ms/2oIE81Q
The U.S. Secretary of Transportation "did not disclose the various Chinese accolades she had received. The Senate’s written questionnaire requires nominees to list all honorary positions.'It was an oversight,' " her spokesman said. nyti.ms/2JRCBjK
China has emerged from the pandemic as an export superpower with a big trade surplus. Yet its currency has risen only modestly against the dollar and has fallen 6% against the euro since the start of May. Currency manipulation debate may be restarting.
China adopts stringent measures in Guangzhou in an attempt to bring under control an outbreak of the Delta variant -- the same variant that has caused so much suffering in India.
The Beijing auto show, the first intl car show held since the pandemic hit, was mobbed over the weekend. But very few foreigners attended, and China is turning inward to maintain spending.
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The contrast is extraordinary between Wuhan now and Wuhan during the pandemic. My colleague, , stayed in the city throughout its nearly 11-week lockdown. Wuhan then was a city of empty streets, crowded hospitals and terror. 4/x
As Covid-19 lockdowns and international arrival quarantines persist in China, and as the Chinese economy stumbles, European companies are losing interest in investing here, three new reports say.
Today marks 30 years since I started covering U.S.-China trade for . Intellectual property, the subject of my first article, is still an issue, but now only one of many frictions in Sino-American relations.
Experienced pilots in the cockpit, yet a nosedive from 29,000 feet in good weather. A four-foot long piece of debris miles from the crash site that might have come from the plane. The mystery about China Eastern Flight 5735 deepens.
Foreign steel makers rushed exports to U.S. ahead of Trump’s promised trade restrictions. Then Trump Administration did not act. Now, layoffs in Pennsylvania. By nytimes.com/2017/12/22/bus
China says about 5 out of more than 60,000 fuel rods damaged at nuclear reactor, but that it is designed to withstand damage to at least 150, and that no radiation has leaked out of reactor.
At the China import expo here in Shanghai, all of the “China-themed” books being given away are by Xi Jinping, in a dozen languages
“Call it the ABC supply chain, as in ‘anywhere but China’.” Companies losing their willingness to depend entirely on China for their worldwide operations, and beginning to disperse factories more widely.
Why a Chinese company dominates electric car batteries. The late, great Carlos Tejada guided and edited this story every step of the way and signed off on the final version a couple hours before his untimely death. #EditedbyCRTejada w/
Some areas still flooded here in Zhengzhou. Safety: never drive through moving water, as the car may start floating and you could lose control. This water was stagnant and others were crossing ahead. For more Henan flood coverage: nytimes.com/2021/07/22/wor
China wants people in the U.S., Britain and elsewhere to get Chinese-made vaccines before applying for visas. But Chinese vaccine makers have not supplied regulators with entire data for safety approval in many of these countries, so vaccines not yet sold. nytimes.com/live/2021/03/1
More and more signs that the U.S. and China are not so close to a trade deal or a presidential summit nyti.ms/2HqRlnR
World turned upside down? Air pollution index only 23 today in Beijing, the latest of many blue-sky days this summer, even as many readings on the U.S. West Coast are 300 to 1,200 because of wildfires.
China has imposed lockdowns in Shenzhen, Dongguan, Jilin City and Changchun and has restricted movement in many Shanghai neighborhoods as a wave of Omicron infections spreads.
‘Zero Covid’ behind it, China’s economy expands 4.5 percent in the first quarter, led by 10.6 percent year-on-year growth in retail sales in March.
Cathay sometimes knows how to handle typhoons: our pilot poured on the gas from New York, landed in HKG 45 minutes early, beat #Hato here
China’s Communist Party to the country's private businesses: work closely with the Party and we will help you. With
Air pollution in Beijing was down by more than half in 2021 compared to 2008, and by three-fifths compared to 2013, when the smog was at its worst. 1/x
Mainland China just reported 505 Covid infections found on Monday, 526 on Sunday and 302 on Saturday, in the country's biggest wave since the Wuhan outbreak. Many cases are Omicron and initially asymptomatic, however. nytimes.com/live/2022/03/0
“requests have come flooding in to Beijing from Kyrgyzstan, Sri Lanka and a number of African nations, asking to restructure, delay repayments or forgive tens of billions of dollars of loans coming due this year.”nytimes.com/2020/05/18/bus
Here in Zhengzhou, China, grief over the loss of life in last week’s Henan province flood prompted many to bring bouquets of flowers today to an informal memorial.
China leads the world in solar and wind, but its coal use is soaring. Here's why 🧵
China is letting its currency sink against the dollar. That means China's exports will be even more competitive in the United States, but will also help hold down inflation in the United States.
Low water levels are severely limiting shipping on the Yangtze River, forcing China to rely more on trucks and making supply chain troubles even worse. Ships that previously navigated the upper Yangtze in summer could each carry as much cargo as 500 trucks.
Nuclear power plants in the West used to keep running when their fuel rods had flaws, venting traces of radioactive gases along the way. Now some are asking if a Chinese power plant is doing so, to keep running during an electricity shortage.
China has been able to ramp up output of masks and other medical supplies far faster than any other country because it has had an industrial policy for medical supplies since SARS in 2003.
Overseas tourism out of mainland China, once the world's largest source of international tourism spending, has almost completely disappeared as China has largely closed its borders. A team effort led by
The Chinese factory that makes Ivanka Trump shoes is looking for even cheaper labor -- in Ethiopia nyti.ms/2rrxQDi