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Riot police clad in white hazmat suits clashed with protestors in the Chinese manufacturing hub of Guangzhou on Tuesday night. 

Trump administration on Tuesday added 80 companies and organizations to a list of companies that are barred from buying American technology and other exports because of national security concerns. The move, which targeted primarily Chinese firms, cracks down on companies that have been big buyers of American chips from Nvidia, Intel and AMD. It also closed loopholes that Trump administration officials have long criticized as allowing Chinese firms to continue to advance technologically despite US restrictions. One company added to the list, Nettrix Information Industry, was the focus of a 2024 investigation by The New York Times that showed how some Chinese executives had bypassed US restrictions aimed at cutting China off from advanced chips to make artificial intelligence.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. URUMQI, China—About a decade ago, some Western companies answered Beijing’s calls to invest in Xinjiang, an underdeveloped region in the country’s remote west. Some were drawn by the natural resources there.

A statement by ministers meeting in Canada mirrored a February Japan-U.S. statement in condemning «coercion» toward Taiwan, language that heartened Taipei in its increasingly tense standoffs with Beijing. Compared to a G7 foreign ministers' statement in November, the statement added members' concerns over China's nuclear buildup, although it omitted references to their concerns about Beijing's human rights abuses in Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong. Also missing were references stressing the desire for «constructive and stable relations with China» and recognizing the «importance of direct and candid engagement to express concerns and manage differences.» The statement dropped past reassurances, recently stated in November, that there is «no change in the basic position of the G7 members on Taiwan, including stated One-China policies,» as well as that the G7 is «not decoupling or turning inwards» and recognizing the importance of China in global trade.

DeepSeek, the free new chatbot from China powered by artificial intelligence, know this: The answers it gives you will largely reflect the worldview of the Chinese Communist Party.

Xi Jinping once looked supreme, unimpeachable and irreproachable. He was perched high upon a pedestal he and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) erected after he became supremo in 2012.

Volkswagen and SAIC Motor say they have agreed to extend their 40-year-old automaking joint venture in China until 2040

The Department of Homeland Security has announced that it would ban the import of goods from a Chinese steel manufacturer and a Chinese maker of artificial sweetener

forced labour from China's far-west region of Xinjiang. The action broadens the scope of the US effort to counter products from entering the country that the government says are tied to human rights abuses. The additions to the entity list under the Uyghur Forced Labour Prevention Act marks the first time a China-based steel company or aspartame sweetener business have been targeted by US law enforcement, DHS said. «Today's actions reaffirm our commitment to eliminating forced labour from US supply chains and upholding our values of human rights for all,» said Robert Silvers, undersecretary of Homeland Security for policy. «No sector is off-limits. We will continue to identify entities across industries and hold accountable those who seek to profit from exploitation and abuse.»

China's Commerce Ministry says it will investigate the fashion company PVH, which owns brands like Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein, for suspected violations of trade rules

BEIJING — China's Ministry of Commerce said Tuesday it was launching a probe into Calvin Klein-parent PVH Group over alleged business disruptions around its Xinjiang supply chain.

Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) held a joint anti-terrorism drill in China focussing on live drills and specialised operations such as the «eradication of terrorist groups,» China's Ministry of Public Security has said. The 'Interaction-2024' joint counter-terrorism exercises were held recently in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the Ministry said.

China is known for its mega hydroelectric plants and giant thermal power projects not only on its land but in many other countries as well, it has set a record by switching on the world's largest solar plant, which has more than five million panels. According to the TCD, the government-controlled China Green Electricity Investment of Tianjin has switched on the 3.5 GW Midong PV farm in Urumqi, Xinjiang region. It is a subsidiary of China Green Development Group (CGDG). China Construction Eighth Engineering Division Corp and Power Construction Corporation of China (PowerChina) invested a massive amount of CNY 15.45 billion in this project. Also Read: Bando Stone & The New World: Here’s all we know about release date, trailer, plot and more

China is deeply concerning and has raised serious allegations of human rights abuses, including forced organ harvesting. In March, during a US congressional committee hearing, experts had claimed that Chinese authorities had gathered genetic information from the Muslim Uyghur minority, with the aim of supporting a forced organ transplant programme targeted at attracting Muslim medical tourists from Gulf states.

CATL and Gotion High Tech should be added immediately to an import ban list, a group of Republican lawmakers said, alleging their supply chains use forced labour, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Philippine trade officials say they have received assurances that the United States will address their concerns after American authorities held up shipments of garments on suspicion that cotton was produced by forced labor in China’s Xinjiang region

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Chinese police are investigating an unauthorized and highly unusual online dump of documents from a private security contractor linked to China’s top policing agency and other parts of its government

China’s foreign minister has told a gathering of international security policy officials that shutting China out of trade in the name of avoiding dependency would be a historic mistake

Volkswagen is reviewing the future of its joint venture in the Xinjiang region of northwestern China and another German industrial giant is starting to sell its stakes there following new international scrutiny of forced labor by predominantly Muslim ethnic groups. Volkswagen said last week that it was in discussions with one of its main joint venture partners in China, the state-owned Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp., in the wake of allegations of human rights violations at their joint venture in Xinjiang.

German chemical company BASF says it's speeding up the sale of stakes in two joint ventures in China after its local partner was accused in media reports of human rights abuses

earthquakes were felt in the Delhi-National Capital Region after a quake struck northern India on Monday late night. An earthquake of 7.2 magnitude struck the Southern Xinjiang region at 11.29 IST, the National Centre for Seismology reported on X (formerly called Twitter) The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles) Earlier on Saturday, an earthquake of 4.4 magnitude on the richer scale jolted Andaman and Nicobar island.