China has raised the yuan fixing for a 15th straight week, the longest weekly gaining streak on record, showing continued ...

While Elon Musk’s Neuralink likes to say it’s “pioneering” brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), China’s BCI industry is already quietly moving from research to scale. A new wave of startups is racing to ...

US intelligence agencies believe China is developing a “new generation” of nuclear weapons — with Beijing having reportedly conducted at least one undisclosed explosive test already. China’s plan to ...

When China launched a sudden investigation into Ant Group, the financial subsidiary of the tech giant Alibaba, in 2020, it sent a shiver through China’s business community. Regulators halted Ant Group ...

The future of renewable energy might be in the sky. Researchers in China have reportedly tested a new, gravity-defying wind turbine system that they say could generate power from the airspace above ...

In January, the Texas Department of Agriculture reported that last year it had collected, from 109 locations, 1,101 packs of seeds that had been sent unsolicited to people in the Lone Star State. The ...

American-born Olympian Eileen Gu scored millions from China in 2025 – a staggering payout exposed in a public budget before officials quickly scrubbed her name from the record, according to a report.

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with journalist Isabel Hilton. As the United States fully withdrew from ...

Despite a lack of diplomatic relations, Beijing has been remarkably successful in expanding its economic and even political influence in Guatemala. During the first week of February 2026, I visited ...

For much of the year the main attraction of Zhuji, a city in Zhejiang province, is its status as the birthplace of Xi Shi, a woman of great classical beauty who lived some 2,500 years ago. But since ...

A Chinese Wing Loong X drone model is on display at the Dubai Airshow on Nov. 20, 2025, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Vcg/VCG via Getty Images) SINGAPORE — Beyond China’s ostentatious display of ...

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