China

China’s latest efforts to influence the outcome of U.S. elections is shifting away from the presidential race and toward state and local candidates.

The joint exercises come after Beijing criticized a speech in which Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said China had no right to represent the self-ruling island.

The action broadens the scope of the U.S. effort to counter products from entering the country that the government says are tied to human rights abuses.

When the 3,600-year-old coffin of a young woman was excavated in northwestern China two decades ago, archeologists discovered a mysterious substance laid out along her neck like a piece of jewelry.

The family of a Chicago woman serving a life sentence in a women’s prison in China is pushing to bring her home. NBC Chicago’s Regina Waldroup reports.

A Hong Kong court convicted two former editors of a shuttered news outlet on Thursday, in a sedition case that is widely seen as a barometer for the future of media freedom in the city once hailed as a bastion of free press in Asia.

A court in Beijing has ruled against an unmarried Chinese woman in the case over her right to freeze her eggs.

The United States has renewed a warning that it’s obligated to defend its close treaty ally a day after Filipino navy personnel were injured and their supply boats damaged in one of the most serious confrontations between the Philippines and China in a disputed shoal in the South China Sea.

Four instructors from Iowa’s Cornell College teaching at Beihua University in northeastern China were attacked in a public park, the U.S. school and the State Department said.

The four instructors from Cornell College, a private liberal arts college in Iowa, were visiting a public park in the northeastern Chinese city of Jilin while on an exchange program.

Four instructors from Iowa’s Cornell College teaching at a Chinese university have been attacked in a public park, reportedly with a knife, according to officials at the U.S. school and the State Department.

A Chinese battery manufacturer that has been awarded a $2 billion contract to operate a plant in Kankakee County is facing accusations that it uses forced labor and that it is connected to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Mary Ann Ahern has the story.

The accounts of multiple users who posted about their luxurious lifestyles are blocked amid a government crackdown on conspicuous displays of wealth.

Videos circulating on Chinese social media show the two “panda dogs” in an exhibit at Taizhou Zoo in the eastern province of Jiangsu that opened on May 1.

A congressional committee is accusing China of fueling the fentanyl crisis in the U.S.

The U.S. treasury secretary has called for a level playing field for American companies and workers as she opens a five-day visit to China in a major industrial and export hub. She told the governor of Guangdong province on Friday that the U.S. and others are concerned about spillovers from industrial overcapacity in China, and will meet with U.S. business...

China says it has filed a complaint at the World Trade Organization over U.S. subsidies for electric vehicles.

FBI Director Chris Wray has told House lawmakers that Chinese government hackers are busily targeting critical infrastructure inside the United States, including water treatment plants, the electrical grid and transportation systems.

A landslide in southwestern China’s mountainous Yunnan province has buried 47 people and forced the evacuation of 200 more.

Chinese state media say 13 students have died after a fire broke out in dorms at a boarding school for elementary students in central Henan province.