An official’s suggestion that people should be grateful to Xi Jinping for containing the coronavirus outbreak triggered online anger. Now he says the people should be thanked.
Large-scale testing in South Korea has provided perhaps the most credible look at the lethality of the new coronavirus as it continues its global spread.
At least 100 restaurants Hong Kong have been found to refuse service to customers from mainland China. A human rights group calls for a wider definition of racial discrimination to cover prejudice against mainland Chinese.
New regulations on the trade and consumption of wild animals have sowed confusion and uncertainties over the future of some traditional delicacies in China.
The Olympics were last canceled in 1940 after Japan invaded China and the outbreak of World War II. Tokyo is now doing all it can to make sure the 2020 Games will go on as scheduled.
Beijing has signaled it will hit back at Washington for cutting the number of Chinese nationals allowed to work in US bureaus of major Chinese state-owned media outlets.
Sun Yang, a Chinese swimming champion, has been banned from competing for eight years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. This ruling will likely end his career.