New York  —  As steam rises from the stove, Ma Ruilin hand-pulls fresh noodles for the lunch service at the Chinese restaurant he runs in New York. Most of his former cadres inside China’s ruling Communist Party wouldn’t understand why he left his comfortable life as a government official to work in a kitchen on

Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. China said on Friday it would suspend some tariffs on Canadian agricultural products imposed during a trade spat between Beijing and Ottawa,

A passenger walks to a Pony.ai robotaxi in Shenzhen, South China’s Guangdong Province, during the 2026 Spring Festival holiday. Photo: Courtesy of Pony.ai When you hail a taxi during the bustling Chinese New Year holiday in Shenzhen, a tech and innovation hub in South China’s Guangdong Province, you might find that your taxi is driverless.

A former U.S. Air Force pilot and officer with decades of flight experience is alleged by federal prosecutors to have provided and conspired to provide defense services to Chinese military pilots without authorization. Gerald Eddie Brown, Jr., 65, known by the call sign “Runner,” was arrested Wednesday in Jeffersonville, Indiana, and criminally charged for the alleged

Chinese suppliers have sharply raised prices for optical fiber sold to Russian buyers as Russia remains dependent on imports after its only domestic producer halted operations. This was reported by Militarnyi on February 26.  We bring you stories from the ground. Your support keeps our team in the field. DONATE NOW Industry sources cited by

The results of the February 2026 quarterly adjustment for the MSCI China Index will take effect after the market close on February 27, 2026. As a key benchmark tracked by global passive funds, newly included stocks are expected to see inflows of passive capital around the effective date of February 27. On February 11, MSCI,

Chinese science diplomats are making the case in Brussels and elsewhere that Europe should swing back to Beijing after US President Donald Trump’s threat last month to forcibly seize the Danish territory of Greenland.Although Trump climbed down, for now, at a charged Davos summit in Switzerland at the end of January, the previously unthinkable idea

Nicholas Burns, former U.S. Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, emphasized the impact that the two countries have on the global order and how that influence could be directed towards addressing climate change. Credit: MIT Energy Initiative “[The United States and China] are the two largest emitters of carbon in the world,” said Nicholas

Hi, everyone! Happy New Year of the Fire Horse! This is Lauly, your #techAsia host this week. It’s been a while. I’ve just come back to work from a nine-day Lunar New Year holiday. I stayed in Taipei with my family and tried very hard to think of something new for my toddler to do

Editor’s Note: This paper is part of a research project, “Countering AI Disinformation and Implications for the US-ROK Alliance,” conducted by the Stimson Center’s Korea Program and generously sponsored by the Korea Foundation. For additional papers in this series, click here. Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga is a senior policy researcher at RAND and a professor of policy