China’s anti-corruption campaign has ensnared yet another senior official, just weeks into the new year. The Communist Party’s internal watchdog, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), announced on its website that Zhao Zhengyong, the former Party boss for the northwestern ...

China’s exports hit their lowest point in December 2018 compared to the last two years of data, while imports declined as well. This signals the weakening of the world’s second largest economy. Exports fell by 4.4 percent from the December ...

WASHINGTON—Gulchehra Hoja had a childhood full of dance and music in Xinjiang, China. She loved being on camera and dreamt of becoming a TV host. And she did. Hoja hosted shows in Chinese and the Uyghur language and started the first ever children’s ...

After Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou was arrested, the Chinese telecoms giant’s close relationship with the Chinese Communist regime has been closely watched by the outside world. Recently, screenshots of information listed on Huawei’s official website have been circulating widely on Chinese social ...

News Analysis To much fanfare, a top Chinese scientist in late November announced the creation of the first genetically edited babies. Since then, the scientist has disappeared, a TV program celebrating his feat has been taken offline, and his home ...

Four decades after China first introduced ‘opening up’ economic policies, the Communist Party’s control of the economy remains as aggressive as ever. In 1978, then-leader Deng Xiaoping ushered in capitalist market forces and allowed foreign investment into the country. Today, ...

Li Wenzu has not seen her husband, Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang, for over three years since he was detained and charged with “subversion of state power.” Wang, who defended spiritual groups persecuted by China’s Communist Party including Christians and ...

Rare-earth metals are critical to the modern economy as they are a key material for making batteries that power electric vehicles; are added to touchscreens and circuit boards in smartphones; and are used in laser systems that guide missiles and ...

China is temporarily removing retaliatory tariffs placed on U.S. cars, trucks, and auto parts in another sign that China is making good on pledges made with the United States during the G-20 summit in Argentina. From Jan. 1, Beijing will ...

NEWS ANALYSIS OTTAWA—The arrest and detention of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou has again affirmed China’s disrespect for the rule of law and given new grounds for cooperation between Canada and the United States. Canada now has to deal with a ...

A number of Chinese companies have announced corporate policies in support of Chinese tech giant Huawei’s products while shunning Apple’s iPhones since Huawei’s chief financial officer was arrested in Canada earlier this month on suspicion of fraud. Meng Wanzhou, who ...

China’s claims that Xinjiang’s mass internment camps—where at least one million predominantly ethnic Uyghurs are being held—are “vocational training centres” are completely “fake and made up,” a former Uyghur camp detainee has told The Epoch Times. Countering claims made by ...

Canadian police recently investigated CA$1 billion (US$750 million) worth of luxury property in the metropolitan area of Vancouver and discovered they were linked to a powerful Chinese criminal organization behind a global trade in deadly fentanyl, as well as illegal ...

WASHINGTON—A global coalition of nearly 300 scholars from 26 countries has demanded Beijing abolish its mass internment camps in Xinjiang. The coalition calls for the international community to in various ways add more pressure on Beijing and to sanction Chinese ...

Recent remarks by two Chinese businessmen indicate how dependent that Chinese telecoms giant Huawei is on Japanese and U.S. technologies. Michael Yu, CEO of New Orient Education and Technology Group, a publicly listed company that provides private educational services, shared ...

The recent announcement of an export ban by the U.S. Department of Commerce against Chinese chipmaker Fujian Jinhua has fueled speculation that other Chinese tech companies may soon face similar punishment, Japanese media report. U.S. authorities declared Oct. 29 that Fujian Jinhua ...

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump is “positive” about his upcoming meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping and is even open to making a trade deal with Xi if certain conditions are met, according to National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow. Trump plans ...

Guns N’ Roses was forced to cut a show short in Abu Dhabi over the weekend after singer Axl Rose got too sick to perform. Reports indicate that Rose, 56, was able to perform for quite a while despite the illness ...

The “One Belt, One Road” initiative is China’s signature project for building international clout as it seeks to establish global trade routes and set up investments that benefit its interests. Across Southeast Asia and some South Pacific islands, China-financed OBOR ...

China’s flurry of recent investments in Israel is coming under close scrutiny. China’s efforts to build ties with Israel are unusual given that the Middle Eastern country doesn’t produce petroleum—one of the Chinese regime’s primary categories of foreign imports. A ...