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The US Department of the Interior has designated Summit Camp in California as a National Historic Landmark, or NHL, marking the first time a site of its type specifically associated with Chinese ...

Chinese president calls for city to ‘focus on cultivating new industries’ as he attends inauguration of new leader
China’s president, Xi Jinping, has urged the gambling hub of Macau to diversify away from casinos, as he addressed the Chinese territory at the inauguration of its new leader.
Xi was in Macau to mark the 25th anniversary of its return from Portuguese to Chinese rule on 20 December 1999. In the quarter-century since then, Macau has been run as a special administrative region of China, a semi-autonomous territory with a similar legal status to Hong Kong, but it has traditionally been much more pliant to Beijing’s rule than the former British territory. More than half of its 700,000 population have immigrated from China in recent decades.

Let’s hope the court does the right thing, and strikes down this potential censorship before it spins out of control
The US supreme court surprisingly decided, , to hear TikTok’s emergency appeal to its imminent ban in the United States. It may be the most important case at the intersection of the first amendment and national security in decades. Whether or not you see China as a nefarious threat, all Americans who care about free expression should worry about the precedent this case could set – and should want the TikTok ban overturned.
After a fifth circuit court of appeals earlier this month, TikTok’s owner, ByteDance, has until 19 January to either sell the popular video-sharing app or face a nationwide ban. The decision stems from Congress passing a law last year that essentially proclaims that if the government says a foreign-owned platform threatens national security, then it can force its sale or censor it.
Trevor Timm is executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation

The man is charged with acting as an illegal foreign agent. The move is part of an effort by the authorities to prevent China from influencing American politicians.

Stephen Sedley writes in response to MPs threatening to name Yang Tengbo in parliament last week before the high court identified him
Contrary to what Nigel Farage and many other MPs and peers appear to believe (), there is no parliamentary privilege in our constitutional law that allows them to defy court orders or decisions if they think it right to do so.
Insofar as we have a written constitution, the forbids the courts to adjudicate on anything said or done in parliament. This is the immunity incorrectly referred to as parliamentary privilege. Parliament has for centuries reciprocated by respecting court decisions and orders, however strongly members object to them.

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Donald Trump announced plans to place an extra 10% tariff on all Chinese exports. China is expected to counter with tariffs of its own.

A Chinese national was arrested Thursday on charges of acting as an illegal agent for Beijing when serving as the campaign manager for an unnamed politician elected to a city council in Southern ...

Records and interviews show that Beijing has used pandas as leverage to shape policy on Taiwan and to cultivate relationships with local U.S. politicians.

Macau is marking the 25th anniversary of its handover to China. It was administered by the Portuguese until 20 December 1999 and was the last outpost under European rule in Asia. Photographer Eduardo Leal documents a city that has gone through enormous development