China scored a win against the illegal trade in fentanyl thanks to cooperation with US authorities but it. faces an uphill battle to contain the flourishing transnational black market as it evolves beyond the law. In the southern Chinese province of Hebei on Thursday, 21 people pleaded guilty at Xingtai Intermediate People’s Court to trading […] Read more

Chinese President Xi Jinping has landed in Panama for the first state visit by a Chinese leader to the small Central American nation, made possible when Panama switched its diplomatic ties from Taipei to Beijing last year. Xi was welcomed by Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela as he arrived in Tocumen International airport on Sunday […] Read more

China has halted the work of the scientist who claims to have created the world’s first genetically edited babies, and says it will investigate. He Jiankui caused outrage earlier this week when he told a genome summit he had altered the genes of twin baby girls so they could not contract HIV. His statement has […] Read more

On a late August weekend in 2017, a week after he was forced out as President Trump’s chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon made a trip to the Connecticut country house of Henry A. Kissinger to talk about China. It was more of a pilgrimage, actually: the prophet of disruption seeking out the high priest of […] Read more

Deere Chairman and CEO Samuel Allen said on Wednesday that his main concern with President Donald Trump’s tariffs is the long-term effects it will have on the supply of agricultural commodities. “We’re more concerned about the structural changes that it might force on the global supply of soybeans and other commodities,” Allen said on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street.” […] Read more

[Photo/VCG] With charges flying back and forth between the United States and China ahead of the eagerly awaited meeting between President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping at the upcoming G20 meeting in Buenos Aires, resolving the conflict has taken on great urgency. The alternatives pose grave risks for both countries: an ever-escalating trade war, […] Read more

He Jiankui is reflected in a glass panel as he works at a computer at a laboratory in Shenzhen in China. [Photo/Agencies] A Chinese scientist’s attempt to produce the world’s first gene-edited babies immune to HIV has sparked heated controversy among the public and academics. In an online video posted on Monday, He Jiankui, a […] Read more

By XU WEI State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi talks with representatives of the United Nations Security Council and ministry officials in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, on Monday. FONG YONGBIN/CHINA DAILY The international community is in need of an even stronger United Nations in the face of rising unilateral actions, State […] Read more

The “nine-in-one” elections, staged every four years, will be held on Saturday to choose nine levels of officers, including municipal mayors, councillors, and county magistrates. It is the first local election test for Tsai and the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party since she came to office in May 2016. Whether her party – or her opponents […] Read more

China is ready to work with other countries to boost East Asia’s security and development by safeguarding the rules-based international order and free trade, and promoting sustainable development and political dialogue, Premier Li Keqiang told the 13th East Asia Summit on Thursday in Singapore. Regional free trade mechanisms are being accelerated, with the Regional Comprehensive […] Read more