Beijing is flexing its military and economic might to show its displeasure with the Japanese leader’s comments about defending Taiwan. But its aggressive approach risks backfiring.

China sent Coast Guard ships near disputed islands and warned travelers and students about safety risks in Japan. The escalation is over comments on Taiwan by Japan’s new prime minister.

Everything the Trump administration is doing to stop the flow of drugs is just making the problem worse.

The Trump administration wants the Security Council to adopt a resolution that has the 20-point U.S. plan annexed, effectively making it international law.

Anthropic, the artificial intelligence start-up, said that Chinese state-sponsored hackers used its tools in a widespread attack.

The company claimed that A.I. did most of the hacking with limited human input and said it was a rapid escalation of the technology’s use in cybercrime.

A Pentagon intelligence report says China could try to acquire advanced F-35 technology in Saudi Arabia if the Trump administration sells jets to the kingdom.

The United States is largely absent from the United Nations climate negations in Brazil. So who is stepping up?

But there are signs that greenhouse gas pollution in China might be slowing, according to a new analysis.

China and the United States say She Zhijiang, a Chinese-born businessman, ran a major scam compound in Myanmar. He was arrested in Bangkok in 2022.

Despair about dimming economic and personal prospects has created an outwardly strong, inwardly brittle nation.

Few American are becoming mariners today, but demand could soon rise because President Trump and a bipartisan group of legislators in Congress want to revitalize the American shipbuilding industry.

The contracts are the latest sign of how Europe is lagging the United States in the race to break China’s chokehold on rare earths.

The California governor painted the president as a threat to American competitiveness by letting China dominate the renewable energy industry.

China is equipping other countries to fight climate change. It’s a role reversal.

At an international conference, researchers at the forefront of animal-human transplantation compared notes and allowed themselves the first real optimism in decades.

A section of the tall bridge in mountainous Sichuan Province fell, apparently after a landslide. No casualties were reported.

The shake-up in China’s armed forces comes as both Beijing and Washington are pushing through major changes in their country’s militaries, in different ways.

A trade truce between the United States and China has calmed nerves, but it won’t stop the broader movement of companies to countries like Vietnam.

The two countries agreed to suspend the fees for a year as part of their recent trade pact, but America still aims to build more commercial ships.

Neros, a company founded in 2023 by former teenage drone racers, won a coveted Army contract and is gaining popularity in the defense sector.

At this year’s climate summit, the United States is out and Europe is struggling. But emerging countries are embracing renewable energy thanks to a glut of cheap equipment.

China will require licenses for export of 13 chemicals used to make the deadly drug, another indicator of thawing tensions between the world’s two largest economies

We have arrived at a “Polycene” moment where binary systems are giving way to multiple interconnected ones.

The changes would make it easier for American firms to obtain key minerals, delivering on what the White House said the two countries had agreed to at last month’s summit.

A correspondent for Reuters, he became a global symbol of China’s isolation and of the anti-foreigner hysteria spawned by its Cultural Revolution.

A leading German automotive supplier said it was again allowed to ship semiconductors that Beijing had barred for export.

President Trump has made it easier for countries that are close to Russia and China to build ties with the United States. Those countries are embracing the opportunity.

Longevity labs, “immortality islands” and grapeseed pills are part of China’s national project to conquer aging, despite sometimes shaky science and extravagant claims.