Exclusive: China would rather see TikTok U.S. close than a forced sale

Beijing opposes a forced sale of TikTok’s U.S. operations by its Chinese owner ByteDance, and would prefer to see the short video app shut down in the United States, three people with direct knowledge of the matter said on Friday.China is willing to use revisions ByteDance has been in talks to sell TikTok’s U.S.... Read More

China calls Hong Kong people arrested at sea ‘separatists’

The 12 Hong Kong people arrested at sea by mainland authorities last month were separatists, a spokeswoman for China’s foreign ministry said on Sunday, in response to her U.S. counterpart’s characterisation of the arrest as a deterioration of human rights. The comment came a day after relatives of the detainees held a news conference... Read More

China imposes new visa restrictions targeting US media

In the latest round of tit-for-tat between Beijing and Washington targeting each other’s media outlets, Chinese authorities have imposed new visa restrictions on foreign journalists working for US news organizations in China. In the past week, during the routine renewal of their press credentials — which are normally valid for a year — several journalists were handed a... Read More

China Opens 5G-Covered Road For Testing Of Self-Driving Cars

A 5G-covered road for testing self-driving cars was formally opened in Baohe District of Hefei City, east China’s Anhui Province on Thursday, welcoming the first batch of passengers. The 4.4-km-long ring road will be open to both self-driving vehicles and ordinary vehicles. Construction on the road started in August 2019 and has since achieved... Read More

Rare footage shows US patrol of South China Sea

For the first time in two years, the US Navy is providing CNN with rare footage and interviews aboard a reconnaissance plane flying over the contested South China Sea. The pandemic has not stopped the rising tensions between the US and Chinese Navies, as well as warships of neighboring countries that claim parts of region. ... Read More

Thousands of Taiwan government email accounts ‘hacked by China’

Chinese hackers infiltrated at least 10 Taiwan government agencies and gained access to around 6,000 email accounts in an attempt to steal data, officials said Wednesday. The damage done was “not small”, according to a top Taiwan cyber official, who said the full impact was still being assessed. Taipei has accused Beijing of stepping... Read More

China floods: 100,000 on Yangtze evacuated, Leshan Buddha at risk

Water intake at Three Gorges Dam expected to reach highest level since it was built in 2003 amid torrential rain. More than 100,000 people have been evacuated from areas on the upper reaches of China’s Yangtze river as flooding threatened a 1,200-year-old World Heritage Site. Staff, police and volunteers used sandbags to try and protect... Read More

China floods force hundreds of thousands from homes

Floods in mountainous southwest China have washed away roads and forced tens of thousands from their homes, with authorities warning Wednesday the giant Three Gorges Dam was facing the largest flood peak in its history. Footage on state broadcaster CCTV showed murky water lapping at the feet of the Leshan Giant Buddha — a... Read More

Chinese search giant Baidu’s earnings overshadowed by US probe

Baidu’s streaming service iQIYI said it is cooperating with US investigation into its finances, operations, investments. Chinese search engine giant Baidu Inc posted its quarterly revenue a notch ahead of estimates, but its shares slid in extended trade after its streaming service, iQIYI, said it was being investigated by the United States Securities and... Read More

China’s Huawei, ZTE face India 5G network exclusion: Report

The US, UK and Australia have also raised concerns about alleged security threats from Chinese technology firms. China’s Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp. are set to be kept out of India’s plans to roll out its 5G networks as relations between the two countries hit a four decade low following deadly border clashes.... Read More