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In a moment that bridged continents and cultures, netizens in China and around the world watched as Brecken—who found a new online home on China’s RedNote after TikTok’s shutdown—finally met his ...

Ted Hui received letter offering reward for information about his family after China accused Australia of interfering with its internal affairs
The foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, has described another threatening letter sent to an exiled Hong Kong dissident in Australia as “reprehensible”, a “threat to our national sovereignty” and “the safety and security of Australians”.
The anonymous letter, mailed from Hong Kong and sent to Ted Hui’s Adelaide office, offered his colleagues $203,000 for information on his whereabouts and his family. It arrived just days after China’s foreign ministry accused the Albanese government of interfering with its internal affairs.

The additions included companies that are customers of Intel and Nvidia, and one firm that was the focus of a New York Times investigation last year.

Annual report says Beijing making ‘steady but uneven’ progress on capabilities to capture Taiwan
remains the United States’ top military and cyber threat, according to a new report by US intelligence agencies that said Beijing was making “steady but uneven” progress on capabilities it could use to capture Taiwan.
has the ability to hit the United States with conventional weapons, compromise US infrastructure through cyber-attacks, and , as well as seeking to displace the US as the top AI power by 2030, the Annual Threat Assessment by the intelligence community said.

Plane was over Pacific Ocean when pilot realized he didn’t have his document and headed back to switch out crew
Passengers heading to aboard a recent flight faced an unexpected travel headache after a pilot’s forgotten passport prompted their return to the United States.
Flight UA198 from to Shanghai was over the Pacific Ocean on Saturday afternoon when it made a U-turn and headed to , tracking data showed.

President Trump's alienation of allies and his dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development are welcome news for China, a scholar in Beijing tells NPR.

MPs likely to be whipped against move to add protections, as government says it is already taking action on risk of forced labour
Ministers have been accused of turning a “blind eye to slavery” by ordering Labour MPs to remove legal protections to stop money being spent by state-owned Great British Energy on solar panels manufactured by forced labour in China.
The protections were added to the government bill in the House of Lords via an amendment from the cross-bench peer David Alton, which said the new body must not spend money on solar or other materials where supply chains had “credible evidence of modern slavery”.

President Donald Trump's plan to revitalize the U.S. shipbuilding industry is likely to backfire because it relies on proposed fees on China-linked vessels that will hurt domestic ship operators, ...

The release of five Mintz Group staff members comes as China tries to attract foreign investments.

The release of the five employees, detained during a crackdown on foreign due diligence, comes as Beijing is trying to bring back overseas investment.

The Shenzhen-based firm says revenue for last year came in at $107bn, boosted by sales of its hybrid vehicles.

Alice Guo's star was on the rise in the Philippines - until alleged links to a scam operation led to her downfall.