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Germany and France, the European Union’s two largest economies, jointly called for tougher EU trade defences, as European and Chinese negotiators prepare for crunch talks this week under the shadow of a potential trade war. “The open and rules-based trade system is massively affected by weaponisation of trade, systemic
A fertility clinic has been allowed to fully resume its services following an embryo sample mix-up incident earlier this year, Hong Kong authorities have announced. The Department of Health said in a statement on Monday that the department will lift a service ban on Heal Fertility. The clinic was allowed to resume taki
Huawei's Mate 90 can pool the cellular connections of up to four nearby Huawei devices; Richard Yu said a Beijing-Shanghai rail test cut video-call stutter by 90%.
American tennis star Coco Gauff said Tuesday she faced an “insane” amount of online racist abuse after defeating Chinese teenager Sun Xinran in a match that included a video review. During Monday’s China Open match against 16-year-old Sun Xinran in Beijing, the former US Open champion requested a video review over flic
Asian stocks mostly rose on Tuesday as a tech-led record on Wall Street was tempered by ongoing worries about a spike in government borrowing costs. In Hong Kong, the benchmark Hang Seng Index ended the day 240 points, or one percent, higher at 24,280 on turnover of HK$98.26 billion. The tech index was 39 points, or 0.
The recent US-China summit yielded a narrow, caution-filled outcome for bilateral trade: a two-month extension of the Kuala Lumpur trade truce, which now expires on January 10 next year. This reprieve eases fears of immediate tariff escalation and shows that head-of-state diplomacy can still curb spiralling confrontati
China’s provision of 300,000 veterinary vaccine doses is strengthening Pakistan’s efforts to control livestock diseases. The assistance also highlights the need for sustained vaccination, surveillance, and veterinary coverage. The vaccines will help control lumpy skin disease (LSD) and Brucella melitensis. Pakistan’s M
Written by Ming-yeh T. Rawnsley. This special issue of Taiwan Insight highlights five award-winning scholars recognised by the International Journal of Taiwan Studies Research Article Competition. Spanning Indigenous justice, vegan activism, cross-Strait relations, political communication, and music history, their essa
Hong Kong’s leader has vowed thorough investigations and “severe” punishment following a string of construction scandals in the city, the latest involving suspected corner-cutting at a HK$115 million waterfront luxury house in Stanley. Chief Executive John Lee said on Tuesday that authorities are investigating whether
The four propellers begin to spin. A gust of wind presses down the surrounding rice plants as a pulsing rotor-whir fills the air. The drone, carrying its battery and a tank of pesticides, lifts off and stabilises, hovering briefly before angling towards the fields. It accelerates over the paddies, the air beneath it fl
A police raid on a longstanding gay bar in Taipei sparked a lightning protest and demands for independent oversight after patrons alleged humiliation and discrimination, prompting disciplinary action against officers and an apology from the mayor weeks before the city’s annual Pride celebrations
China tried three times to persuade powerful families in northern Myanmar to shut down scam operations before Myanmar police carried out large-scale arrests in 2023, according to a new documentary broadcast on Chinese state television. The three-part documentary, jointly produced by China’s Ministry of Public Security
A railway station in Guangzhou has set a national record for trips in a single day and drawn attention for the frequency of bullet train departures – one every 40 seconds – during this month’s holiday period, according to the Guangdong provincial government. Guangzhou South Railway Station handled 1,252 train services
The Japanese coast guard said on Tuesday a Chinese survey ship had left Tokyo’s exclusive economic zone after being ordered repeatedly to stop research operations that Japan said were unauthorised. The Chinese vessel Kexue was first seen on September 27 in waters around 70 kilometres (45 miles) north of Ishigaki island
Hong Kong authorities will “pursue accountability” over the deadly Tai Po blaze after an independent probe committee submits its final report, leader John Lee has said, without commenting on whether government officers will be investigated for misconduct. Lee, speaking ahead of a meeting with the Executive Council, sai
Turkmenistan has added the FK-2000 missile-and-gun system to its growing arsenal of Chinese-made air defences, highlighting Beijing’s expanding role in the Central Asian weapons market once dominated by Russia. At least 10 FK-2000 vehicles – along with an array of other Chinese-made military equipment – could be seen i
China is accelerating ultra-deep oil and gas development to expand domestic supply amid global energy uncertainties, with advances in exploration and extraction technologies unlocking harder-to-recover resources. One key frontier is the resource-rich western region of Xinjiang, where PetroChina’s Hade-Fuman oilfield ha
Chief Executive John Lee on Tuesday said the government would work to deliver a high-quality experience for all participants at the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) Finance Ministers' Meeting, which will be held in Hong Kong between October 20 and 21. Lee said the Ministry of Finance in Beijing was han
ARTICLE 19, the Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ), and the Center to Combat Corruption and Cronyism (C4 Center) welcome the communication and the request for clarification by the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, the Special R
In 2019, President Xi Jinping became the first Chinese leader to publicly call for the exploration of detailed proposals for governing Taiwan after reunification. Seven years later, the first proposals from a handful of the mainland’s leading research institutes have either been finalised or are nearing completion, the
Beijing’s push to accumulate gold serves a larger goal: yuan internationalisation. In this series, Part I traces China’s path to becoming a gold superpower, while this article explores Hong Kong’s key role in safeguarding the nation’s financial security. In 2013, one-third of the world’s traded gold passed through Hong
Image: OONI attending FIFAfrica 2026 . Last week, we had the opportunity to participate in the Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa (FIFAfrica) 2026 , one of Africa’s largest and most important digital rights conferences. We are grateful to have had the opportunity to share OONI tools at the conference and learn from pa
In 2006, the same year that Macau overtook Las Vegas to become the world’s biggest gambling hub, Donald J. Trump was trying to make inroads into the Special Administrative Region of China. But there was a snag: his company name was already registered to local residents. Trump Companhia Limitada – “Trump Company Limited
The US Justice Department (DOJ) is seeking to revoke the citizenship of a former Navy sailor convicted of spying for China and a Florida man convicted of conspiring to act as an agent of Beijing, it announced on Monday. Jinchao Wei and Ping Li are among 40 people facing denaturalisation actions in what the department d
Novak Djokovic advanced to the China Open final on Monday after Daniil Medvedev was disqualified in the second set, when a ball that came off the Russian's racquet hit a spectator. A man sitting in the stands behind Medvedev's side of the court was seen holding his face and escorted out of his seat after being hit, as
The United States has accused mainland China of hiring an American citizen of Chinese origin to surveil the family of Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te, days after President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Washington. The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Sunday arrested 34-year-old Zhang Wanying at Los Angeles Intern
Mainland Chinese prefer coercion over military force to settle the “reunification question” with Taiwan, and their opinion of the US remains low, although they favour engaging with Washington on trade and security. These are the results from the latest survey of mainland citizens, conducted between April 16 and June 26
Xi Jinping’s state visit to Washington in September was steeped in pageantry. The Chinese president received two 21-gun salutes in three days, watched a flyover by the powerful B-2 stealth bomber, and viewed the founding documents of American democracy at the National Archives. US President Donald Trump called his summ
Bogota mayor Carlos Fernando Galan has called on the Chinese-led consortium building the city’s first metro line to send more workers to its stations, after the country’s top auditor warned that delays in several parts of the project could push back its opening in March 2028. “We are entering a critical stage, which is
For more than eight decades, the remains of US fighter pilot Morton Sher lay unrecovered in China. A photograph of a memorial to him in a Hunan village eventually helped investigators find where his plane crashed in 1943. Sher was buried in his hometown of Greenville, South Carolina, in December 2025, a homecoming that
In the strongest sign yet of a shifting European Union policy on China, the leaders of France and Germany have demanded a new trade weapon that would cut off access to the EU market when third countries cause severe distortions. The tool would effectively act as a kill switch, allowing Brussels to respond rapidly to sy
As China seeks to build on its “engineer dividend” – the advantage created by a vast pool of engineers built up over decades – it is directing more talent towards artificial intelligence and other hi-tech fields central to its competition with the US. The push comes as fresh graduates face mounting pressure to find job
Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert is quoted in the Guardian about Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s increasing influence on AI dominance. The post Fixer, Financier, Spymaster: How the UAE’s Sheikh Tahnoon is Setting His Sights on AI Dominance appeared first on The Citizen Lab .
A number of recent incidents illustrate new tactics in China’s playbook for transnational repression. For one, a comedy club in Taipei–known as Comedy Club or Comedy Plus +--had its entrance smeared with a mixture of feces and white paint. It is thought that this occurred due to performances by comedian Huang Yi-hao. H
A woman accused of spying for China on Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te’s son and his family was arrested Sunday in the United States, US and Taiwanese officials said. Wanying Zhang, 34, is accused of acting as an unregistered agent of China and spying on a “close relative of a Taiwanese government official” in the Uni
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The latest deadly attacks come a week after at least 50 civilians were killed in the worst such incident since the current conflict in the state began nearly three years ago
Beijing warned Manila on Monday against “provocative acts” in the disputed South China Sea, accusing a Philippine aircraft of an airspace violation over the weekend. Beijing claims most of the sea, despite an international ruling that its assertion has no legal basis, and confrontations have occurred regularly. The Phi
Move would strengthen Britain’s case to be included in new legislation to protect European manufacturing Business live – latest updates The UK is reviewing whether to impose tariffs on Chinese car imports to align itself with the EU and strengthen its case to be included in new legislation designed to protect the Europ
Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen played in front of rowdy fans at her home tournament on Saturday before opponent Anna Kalinskaya retired with injury to give the Chinese star player a 6-7 (4/7), 6-4, 3-0 victory in the second round of the China Open. A strong breeze and a noisy crowd made for tense rallies on a chilly cen
Five pro-democracy figures convicted of failing to register a fund linked to the 2019 protests and unrest have taken their case to Hong Kong’s top court, after losing an appeal last month. Cardinal Joseph Zen, barrister Margaret Ng, former lawmaker Cyd Ho, scholar Hui Po-keung, and singer-activist Denise Ho were listed
The Southern Theater Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) said on Monday that the Philippines illegally intruded into China's territorial airspace and that it has warned the Philippine side to immediately cease its rights violations and provocative acts.