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We’ve long reported about the need to protect American technology amid Chinese efforts to steal it. But today’s cover story makes the case for the possibility that the way we’re doing it is causing ...

Restrictions on Russia’s oil trade are raising the stakes in a protracted economic standoff that is reshaping the global energy market.

How wok cooking—the method behind dishes from kung pao chicken to pad see ew—and Asian communities fit into the debate over gas stoves.

Texas Republicans are renewing calls for the release of Mark Swidan, a 38-year-old American on death row in China on drug charges the U.N. says is wrongfully detained.

Glen VanHerck, the head of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), said the flights went undetected by the military.

The U.S. Navy has released the first close-up photos of Chinese surveillance balloon recovery operations from Sunday off Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

The U.S. Coast Guard on Monday imposed a temporary security zone in waters off South Carolina during the military's search for debris from a suspected Chinese spy balloon shot down by a U.S. fighter ...

Episode removed from Disney+ is the second of the cartoon to be made unavailable in Hong Kong
An episode of the Simpsons that references “forced labour camps” in China has been removed from Disney+ streaming services in Hong Kong.
The episode is the second in the long-running US cartoon’s latest season. One Angry Lisa sees Marge buy an interactive training exercise bike, similar to a Peloton bike. On an interactive tour, the guide takes Marge to the Great Wall of China with its wonders of “bitcoin mines, forced labour camps where children make smartphones, and romance”.

The Chinese government said the balloon that Colombia spotted in its airspace on Friday was for civilian purposes and was being used for flight tests.

Albanese will need to explain how Australia’s investment in more lethal defence capabilities will make the Indo-Pacific safer – and ensure conflict never occurs
As spy stories go, the recent foray and ultimate demise of China’s surveillance balloon across the United States is not very promising. Beijing probably did not learn any state secrets, and the eventual downing of the unmanned aerial system once it was safely over water is hardly the stuff of Le Carré.
Yet the balloon incident is a powerful illustration of why Australia’s foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, has been calling for the US and China to put in place “guardrails” to manage their competition responsibly.

Officials said Chinese balloons travelled into U.S. airspace on at least three occasions during the Trump presidency and once previously during Biden's tenure.