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Liu Fang tells how her family lived privately in the US for eight years, until two men turned up at their door in first US trial arising from China’s ‘Operation Fox Hunt’
The wife of a Chinese former official has described in court the moment their life in the US was “turned upside down” by Chinese government threats aimed at forcing her family to return to their homeland.
Liu Fang told how two strangers pounded on her New Jersey front door and twisted the handle, in what is the first trial to come out of US claims that Beijing has tried to harass and intimidate dissidents and others into returning home.

Alaska’s congressional delegation is responding to a report of Chinese spies trying to access one of the state’s military bases. According to USA Today, Chinese citizens posing as tourists “have made several attempts” to snoop on American military bases in recent years including in Fairbanks.

Questions remain following the final battle! American Born Chinese is an adaptation of Gene Luen Yang’s graphic novel of the same name in 2006. The series follows American teenager Jin Wang (Ben Wang) ...

American Born Chinese is an adaptation of Gene Luen Yang’s graphic novel of the same name in 2006. The series follows American teenager Jin Wang (Ben Wang) who hopes to improve his social life which he feels is derailed by the arrival of a new foreign student,

American Born Chinese on Disney+, created by Kelvin Yu, follows a 10th grader named Jin Wang (Ben Wang) who wants what most teenagers want — to fit in. But he struggles, especially when he is asked by ...

Lucy and Charlie’s Honeymoon” is a caper story where both protagonists are Asian Americans who desire not to fall into the “model minority” stereotype.

Chinese companies have been buying up Western brands for years ... add up to $95.7 million depending on the company’s sales in China. AMC Theaters, the American cinema chain that became a so-called meme stock in January 2022 when people began investing ...

Annual vigil replaced by pro-Beijing carnival but some still manage to mark massacre amid heavy police presence
For the past three years, Hong Kong authorities have gone to great lengths to stop people from lighting candles in Victoria Park and publicly commemorating the Tiananmen Square massacre – an annual tradition tens of thousands of residents had kept alive for three decades since the bloody crackdown in 1989.
This year, the city . On Sunday, in place of a mass vigil was a patriotic carnival held by pro-Beijing groups, celebrating the city’s return to Chinese rule with food booths, and dance and music performances. Colourful banners urged carnival goers to “taste the joy”. Instead of candles, volunteers handed out plush toys.

Shadow foreign secretary says Britain risks isolation in global debates on China, AI and climate crisis
Rishi Sunak has demonstrated a “little England mentality” in foreign relations, David Lammy has argued, warning the UK risks marginalising itself in vital global debates on China, AI and the climate emergency.
Speaking shortly before Sunak heads to Washington for a meeting with Joe Biden, the shadow foreign secretary said cuts to areas such as overseas aid, the British Council and BBC World Service were further hampering the UK’s soft power and making it appear even more insular.

In a video released by the US Navy, the USS Chung-Hoon observes a Chinese navy ship conduct what is described as an 'unsafe' manoeuvre in the Taiwan Strait on 3 June. The Chinese navy ship moves across the path of the American destroyer, forcing the US ship to slow to avoid a collision, the US Indo-Pacific Command said in a statement. The incident occurred as the US destroyer and Canadian frigate HMCS Montreal were conducting a 'freedom of navigation' transit of the strait between Taiwan and mainland China. China's military rebuked the US and Canada for 'deliberately provoking risk'

The U.S. Navy released video of a Chinese maneuver in the Taiwan Strait in which a Chinese navy ship cut sharply across the path of a U.S. destroyer.