China

Fifty years ago, on Sept. 9, 1976, Mao Zedong died in Beijing at the age of 82. Mao had led the Chinese Communist Party through decades of revolutionary struggle and headed the 1949 revolution that […]

On Aug. 26, a glacier collapsed high on the Nepali side of the Himalayan range, sending a wall of ice, rock, mud and water down the river valleys straddling the border between Nepal and the […]

On Sept. 6, 2024, a 55-year-old delivery rider identified by the surname Yuan was found unconscious on his electric scooter outside a residential complex in Hangzhou. He had been lying there for hours before anyone […]

The day before International Workers’ Day, a court in China sent a clear message to employers: artificial intelligence is not a license to throw workers away. On April 30, the Hangzhou Intermediate People’s Court in […]

President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing on May 13 ahead of two days of talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping — the first visit by a sitting U.S. president to China since Trump’s last trip […]

In the early 1980s, as the Reagan administration’s assault on labor accelerated and plant closures gutted the industrial Midwest, a grassroots campaign put forward a demand that U.S. ruling-class politicians dismissed as utopian: a job […]

The Treasury Department announced April 24 secondary sanctions against Hengli Petrochemical, a private Chinese oil refinery at the port of Dalian with daily processing capacity of about 400,000 barrels. Treasury also sanctioned approximately 40 shipping […]