South China Morning Post

A woman arrested at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort had a hidden-camera detector and a thumb drive capable of planting malware on a target computer, prosecutors said.

The finding, revealed at a bail hearing at West Palm Beach, Florida on Monday, has deepened the mystery surrounding Chinese national Yujing Zhang, who has been accused of lying her way into the Florida resort, where Trump has hosted multiple foreign leaders.

US lawmakers have raised questions over whether Trump and his…

When Chinese Premier Li Keqiang stood up in the Great Hall of the People last month to deliver his annual work report, he spoke for more than an hour and a half.

Yet he was notably silent about one high-profile government policy.

Not once did he mention Beijing’s flagship “Made In China 2025” industrial strategy, unveiled with such fanfare back in 2015.

Since then, of course, MIC2025 has attracted intense criticism internationally. Beijing’s plan to pour vast state resources into seizing a…

China will refuse to give up its status as a developing country at the World Trade Organization, in a rebuke to a US proposal that would pare back the privileges China and other nations enjoy on trade.

China declares itself as a developing country at the global trade body, which allows it to subsidize its agricultural producers and set higher barriers to market entry than more developed economies.

The dispute reflects a fundamental divide within the WTO that has threatened the future of the…

Before Chairman Mao Zedong died, premier Zhou Enlai delivered a warning: one day, a US celebrity-turned-president could become a major threat to China.

At least, that’s the story feng shui master-turned-playwright Edward Li Kui-ming tells in a new Cantonese opera production, Trump on Show.

The political satire begins its run in Hong Kong on Friday, a modern update on a centuries-old Chinese art form characterized by its elaborate make-up and costumes.

While real relations between China and…

Federal officials have labeled Boston a major target of Chinese spies who are looking to steal trade and technology secrets from the US.

US Assistant Attorney General John Demers, who leads a federal force against Chinese espionage in America, said Massachusetts had become a focus of his team’s work, the Associated Press reported.

“Boston is a target-rich environment for anyone who is interested in intellectual property,” Demers was quoted as saying at a media roundtable discussion on Friday…

You go to work at 9am, and you leave at 9pm. Every day, six days a week.

It’s known as “996,” a 72-hour work week that’s become the new normal in the Chinese tech industry.

Many of the leading Chinese tech companies, including Alibaba (which owns Inkstone), JD.com, Bytedance and Huawei all have staff running on this schedule, according to a crowdsourced document naming and shaming some 40 tech companies on Github, a popular code-hosting site where two Chinese software developers have started…

The Philippines says it will prepare for a “suicide mission” if Beijing ever touches an island claimed by both countries in the South China Sea.

President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday called on Beijing to leave alone the island of Thitu, known as Pagasa in Filipino, in a strong protest against a growing Chinese presence in the disputed waters.

“I will not plead or beg, but I am just telling you that lay off the Pagasa because I have soldiers there. If you touch it, that’s a different story. I…

China has officially recognized 13 new job titles – including drone pilot and eSports player – in order to keep up with the fast-changing face of the country’s workforce.

The majority of the newly added job titles apply to the high-tech sector, underscoring the Chinese job market’s shift toward advanced technology as China seeks to move away from its reliance on export and manufacturing for growth.

The new job titles include “artificial intelligence engineering technician” and “Internet of…

Massachusetts Institute of Technology is ending its funding ties with Chinese telecoms giants Huawei and ZTE, citing the risks of such arrangements in the light of US federal investigations of the two companies.

MIT’s move is the latest in a series of blows to the Chinese telecoms giants, both of which have struggled in the face of high-level opposition to their activities in the US market.

Lawmakers allege that the equipment they sell – key components in mobile phone network infrastructure –…

A bipartisan group of US lawmakers on Wednesday called on the Trump administration to sanction Chen Quanguo, a Chinese official overseeing Xinjiang region.

Chen is the Communist Party chief of the far-western region, where the Chinese authorities have reportedly forced at least one million ethnic Uygurs, a mostly Muslim minority, into camps for political indoctrination in the name of counter-terrorism.

The lawmakers’ push for economic sanctions against Chen puts additional pressure on the…