World & Nation
Spurred by declining job prospects in the cities and government efforts to lift up rural areas, young people in China are becoming farmers.
June 27, 2024
Chinese police say a suspect is in custody in a stabbing attack on four instructors from Iowa’s Cornell College who were teaching at a Chinese university.
June 11, 2024
Movies
Robert Towne, the screenwriting icon who won an Academy Award for “Chinatown,” has died. He was 89.
July 2, 2024
Security in Beijing is tight around Tiananmen Square as China marks 35 years since a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
June 4, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused China of helping Russia to disrupt a Swiss-organized peace conference on the war in Ukraine.
June 2, 2024
Taiwan’s opposition-controlled Legislature has passed changes that are seen as favoring China and diminishing the power of the island’s president.
May 28, 2024
Lai Ching-te, decried by Beijing as a separatist who could lead the island into war, emphasized peace and democracy in his first speech as Taiwan’s new president.
May 20, 2024
China lifted its one-child policy nearly a decade ago. A growing number of couples aren’t having any.
May 8, 2024
Taiwan says it has scrambled jets and put missile, naval and land units on alert over drills China has announced around the self-governing island democracy
May 22, 2024
Opinion
President Biden’s tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles and batteries will hurt consumers and slow the transition to zero-emission vehicles at a time when the U.S. needs to rapidly reduce its reliance on fossil fuels.
May 17, 2024