China on Monday announced unspecified sanctions against 11 US politicians and heads of organizations promoting democratic causes, including Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, who have already been singled out by Beijing.
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Microsoft Corp has emerged as the most likely buyer of the U.S. operations of TikTok, the popular Chinese short-video app that U.S. President Donald Trump is preparing to effectively ban on national security grounds.
A deal would be in line with (...)
Chinese government-linked hackers have been targeting U.S. election infrastructure ahead of the 2020 presidential election, White House National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien said on Sunday, indicating a more active level of alleged Chinese (...)
Beijing's top representative office in Hong Kong said on Saturday that sanctions imposed by Washington on senior Hong Kong and Chinese officials were "clowning actions" that would not frighten or intimidate Chinese people.
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Hong Kong will offer free voluntary coronavirus testing for residents, leader Carrie Lam said on Friday, as the global financial hub races to contain a resurgence of the virus over the past month.
The plan, which will enable citywide testing for the (...)
Futures tied to major U.S. equity averages fell on Friday after an executive order from President Donald Trump raised tensions further with China.
Investors were also eyeing virus stimulus talks in Washington and a big jobs report due Friday.
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European stocks were flat on Friday ahead of a key U.S. federal jobs report and amid rising tensions between Washington and Beijing.
The pan-European Stoxx 600 hovered just above the flatline by early afternoon, with banks falling 1.3% to lead (...)
Asia Stocks were mostly lower on Friday as tensions between Beijing and Washington weighed on investor sentiment.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng index led losses among the region's major markets, dropping 1.6% to close at 24,531.62. Shares of Chinese tech (...)
President Donald Trump issued executive orders banning U.S. transactions with Chinese tech firms Tencent and ByteDance.
Tencent owns Chinese messaging app WeChat, and ByteDance is the Beijing-based parent company of the widely popular short (...)
China does not wish to see tensions between Beijing and Washington escalate further following tit-for-tat consulate closures over the past weeks, the Chinese ambassador to the United States said on Tuesday.
"I don't think a new Cold War would serve (...)
A World Health Organization team in China to probe the origins of COVID-19 had "extensive discussions" and exchanges with scientists in Wuhan where the outbreak was first detected, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
The talks included updates on animal (...)
President Donald Trump said he will take action as soon as Saturday to ban TikTok, a popular Chinese-owned video app that has been a source of national security and censorship concerns.
Trump's comments came after published reports that the (...)
President Donald Trump's pattern is now familiar: He makes a stunning assertion, on Twitter or impromptu. The head scratching begins.
Was he serious? Was he trying to distract from other negative news?
Allies are left to shrug their shoulders and (...)
قالت اذاعة ان.اتش.كيه العامة إن مشرعين من الحزب الديمقراطي الليبرالي الحاكم في اليابان قرروا الضغط من أجل خطوات لتقييد استخدام تطبيق الفيديو المملوك للصين TikTok، قلقين من أن تنتهي بيانات المستخدمين في أيدي الحكومة الصينية.
ذكرت مجموعة ان اتش كيه (...)
A group of top Republican U.S. senators on Tuesday ramped up pressure on TikTok, asking the Trump administration to assess the threat that the popular Chinese-owned video sharing app might meddle in U.S. elections.
In a letter dated Tuesday, (...)
A group of top Republican U.S. Senators on Tuesday ramped up pressure on TikTok, asking the Trump administration to assess the threat that the popular Chinese-owned video sharing app might meddle in U.S. elections.
In a letter dated Tuesday, Marco (...)
China took over the premises of the U.S. consulate in the southwestern city of Chengdu on Monday, after ordering the facility to be vacated in retaliation for China's ouster last week from its consulate in Houston, Texas.
The seizure capped a (...)
Guangzhou Evergrande began the defence of their Chinese Super League (CSL) title with a 2-0 victory against Shanghai Shenhua as the delayed 2020 campaign, revamped due to the COVID-19 pandemic, finally kicked off over the weekend.
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China took over the premises of the U.S. consulate in the southwestern city of Chengdu on Monday, after ordering the facility to be vacated in retaliation for China's ouster last week from its consulate in Houston, Texas.
The seizure capped a (...)
933 coronavirus patients have fully recovered and left isolation hospitals, bringing the total number of recoveries to 32,903 since the detection of the first case on 14 February, according to a health ministry statement on Saturday.
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Health Minister Hala Zayed visited the ministry's national vaccination centre, VACSERA, to follow up on its readiness to start manufacturing a potential coronavirus vaccine developed by Beijing.
According to a separate statement, Zayed inspected the (...)
Chinese staff departed China's Houston consulate to a jeering crowd after the U.S. government ordered the building closed, calling it a hub for spying on American companies and researchers.
About 100 protesters shouted "take back China," denounced (...)
Gold prices rose to an all-time high Friday as investors sought safety in the precious metal amid rising U.S.-China tensions and lingering fears over the coronavirus pandemic.
Gold crossed the $1,900 per ounce ceiling on Friday for the first time (...)
The two main tennis tours on Friday cancelled all of their remaining tournaments in China for this year, including the flagship WTA Finals, in the wake of the country's ban on international sporting events due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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China said Thursday that ``malicious slander'' is behind an order by the US government to close its consulate in Houston, Texas, maintaining that its officials never operated outside ordinary diplomatic rules.
Foreign ministry spokesperson Wang (...)
