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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Friday demanded the return of an underwater drone that was seized by China as an American crew was moving in to retrieve it. The episode threatens to increase tensions in a region already fraught with great-power rivalries. A Chinese warship had been shadowing the Bowditch, a United States naval vessel,…
President-elect Donald J. Trump has broken with decades of diplomatic practice in freewheeling calls with foreign leaders. close story-meta-footer close story-meta ====================================================== THIS IS A GENERATED TEMPLATE FILE. DO NOT EDIT. ====================================================== this file is generated from src/style.less Dec. 2 Mr. Trump talks to the president of Taiwan, becoming the first U.S. president or president-elect…
The blowback to a Fox News segment this week that was chock full of Asian stereotypes has been loud and swift. Activists, Asian American organizations and journalist associations have called Jesse Watters’s man-on-the-street interviews for “The O’Reilly Factor” racist and demanded explanations. Then, on Thursday night, “The Daily Show” responded with the kind of angry critique of Fox News that was the…
The answer was complicated, a bit too much so to explain in my rusty Chinese. Had I been honest, I would have told him that I had arrived in Hangzhou on a journey of last resort. Encased in Ziploc at the bottom of my shoulder bag was a Donald J. Trump-brand necktie with silver checks…
SHANGHAI China’s toll roads have stacked up a debt pile of 4.45 trillion yuan ($666.96 billion), with almost 80 percent of their annual income last year going to repay loans, the transport ministry said, as the country accelerates road building. Beijing has cranked up state spending on infrastructure to support economic growth as private…
When China’s favorite swimmer Fu Yuanhui openly mentioned her menstrual cycle on Sunday (Aug. 14) at the Rio Olympics, it was the first time many Chinese people realized it is possible to swim while being on your period. China placed 4th in the final of the women’s 4×100-meter medley relay Sunday, a race won by…
FOSHAN, China—In a steamy room full of small appliances, Zhao Guoyao frowned over a pot of rice. Mr. Zhao, a product manager at appliance giant Midea Group, 000333 1.01 %wants to make a better rice cooker. It is one small part of a nationwide push to make quality goods for a burgeoning middle class, a process that will help…
A financial meltdown in China is the currently the leading contender for “Next global financial crisis that will definitely screw you somehow, even though you don’t have that much money.” We now know that GEORGE SOROS is betting on China’s demise too. http://gawker.com/how-scared-sho… Soros is famous for making a billion bucks betting against the British…
The army came up against “an elaborate system of blockades”, described in a cable from May 21, 1989, which allowed students to “control much of central Beijing”. Diplomats observed that “there were buses turned sideways to form roadblocks” and students had vowed the army would not be able to cross. “But we doubt it”, one…
From the Dutch tulip craze of 1637 to America’s dot-com bubble at the turn of the century, history is littered with speculative frenzies that ended badly for investors. But rarely has a mania escalated so rapidly, and spurred such fevered trading, as the great China commodities boom of 2016. Over the span of just two…