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US firm says network of bot accounts also hijacking hashtags in large-scale attempt to obscure coverage
An attempt to flood social media platforms with spam in order to drown out coverage of the lockdown protests in China was probably backed by the Chinese government, according to analysis by a US cybersecurity firm.
Recorded Future found that networks of coordinated bot accounts were targeting non-Chinese social media platforms to crowd out genuine posts about the demonstrations with spam content and by hijacking hashtags of names of Chinese cities. It said China’s government was most likely to be behind the tactic.

Ministers and experts say disputes between co-hosts unlikely to disrupt efforts to reach deal on protecting natural world
More than 10,000 scientists, government officials and activists will gather in Montreal this week for the world’s most important biodiversity conference, eager to hammer out a deal to stem habitat loss around the world and preserve sensitive ecosystems.
The UN Cop15 biodiversity summit opens on Tuesday, and will see countries negotiate this decade’s targets for protecting nature after more than two years of pandemic-related delays and just over two weeks since the end of the Cop27 climate meeting in Egypt.

Because the New York Knicks play basketball in the country’s largest media market, the entire hoops universe finds out when anything happens, good or bad, to an underperforming NBA franchise that hasn ...

Dramatic U-turn following widespread unrest leaves country ill-prepared for Omicron
The portable PCR testing booth dangled in the air over a dark Beijing street, captured on camera as it was winched away by a crane in the middle of the night. The image spread rapidly across Chinese social media, the perfect symbol of the bewilderingly rapid end of a draconian era.
In the face of the since the bloody crackdown on , the Chinese government has abruptly abandoned its flagship .

Watching the videos and images of Chinese citizens and students protesting on campuses and in city streets this past week in China has caused me to lose sleep again. I find myself replaying scenes ...

Growing up in San Gabriel, Lu visited the mall twice a week, grocery shopping and eating at a Korean tofu house upstairs. The renovation will attract more customers, he said, but he doesn’t want ...

Despite daily Covid-19 cases near all-time highs and recent protests over lockdowns, US intelligence see no threat to Xi’s stability
Chinese leader Xi Jinping is unwilling to accept western vaccines despite the challenges China is facing with Covid-19, and while recent protests there are not a threat to Communist party rule, they could affect his personal standing, US director of national intelligence Avril Haines said.
Although China’s daily Covid cases are near all-time highs, some cities are taking steps to loosen testing and quarantine rules after Xi’s zero-Covid policy triggered a sharp economic slowdown and public unrest opposing Covid-19 lockdowns.

In Yunnan, Western China, one occasionally encounters an intriguing proverb: “If one visits China for a month, he can write a book. If one visits China for a year, he ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- At the SFNext Conference that was recently held at the Exploratorium, there was a lot of discussion about the Asian-American community and a sense that many residents of Asian descent ...

The nuclear-capable B-21 Raider is set to become a key component in US’s effort to match the Asian country’s military build-up
The Pentagon unveiled its first new strategic bomber in more than 30 years on Friday, a nuclear-capable bat-wing plane that will become a central component of the US effort to counter China’s military build-up when it enters service around 2027.
Almost every aspect of the B-21 Raider is classified, but in a tightly-controlled unveiling at the Air Force’s Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, currently home of Lockheed-Martin’s legendary Skunk Works, the new strategic plane was briefly shown to the public.

National political leaders and advocates are trying to rally Asian support in the final days before the Walker-Warnock election.