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Seventy-five US hundred-dollar bills, a device for detecting secret surveillance equipment and five SIM cards: the mystery surrounding Mar-a-Lago intruder Zhang Yujing deepened on Monday after US prosecutors in Florida laid out the inventory of items found in the Chinese woman’s possession.

Yet an equally puzzling and, according to national security analysts, potentially troubling picture is beginning to emerge about the man who advertised the event that Zhang said she was at US President…

In the ’50s and ’60s, the US and the Soviet Union were locked in a race to send astronauts into space.  

The decade ended with a US victory, as it landed the first man on the moon in 1969.

But now some want the space race to make a return.

This time, the US is confronting another nation it sees as a rival: China, whose huge investment in technological innovation could potentially lead it to surpass the United States.

China’s “dramatic progress” in technological innovation has rapidly…

Two days before Chinese Premier Li Keqiang set off for Brussels to attend Tuesday’s summit with European Union leaders, Chinese diplomats were getting desperate.

They were struggling to get their EU counterparts back to the table to agree on a joint statement to be released at the end of the meeting between Li and EU leaders.

The two sides were able to draft a statement at the last minute, but not before European negotiators initially threatened to walk out from the discussions.

The rare…

A Chinese-American start-up specializing in brain-reading tech has come under fire in China, after a post to the Twitter-like Weibo showed its headbands being worn by Chinese pupils at an undisclosed primary school.

The company, BrainCo, describes its Focus headband as featuring “real-time brainwave feedback and visualization,” targeted at the education, fitness and wellness sectors.

Now it’s been caught in a social media controversy amid concerns in China that the wide use of tech such as…

Nine leaders of Hong Kong’s Occupy Central protests are waiting to be sentenced after being found guilty for their roles in organizing the massive pro-democracy “Umbrella Movement” in 2014.

Days before their conviction, the three leaders at the center of the movement – Benny Tai, Chan Kin-man and the Reverend Chu Yiu-ming – returned to the same red-brick building where they had launched their civil disobedience campaign.

At Kowloon Union Church on Saturday, they went to seek solace not just…

President Donald Trump’s former advisor Steve Bannon has issued a blistering condemnation of McKinsey & Company, Goldman Sachs and an advocacy group representing some of the most prominent Chinese Americans, as he stepped up his rhetoric about the need for Washington to confront China.

Speaking on Tuesday at a Washington event organized by the Committee on the Present Danger: China, or CPDC – which also featured Senator Ted Cruz and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich – Bannon, the…

When an American-developed F-35 fighter jet went missing on Tuesday minutes after it took off from an airbase in north-eastern Japan, several US military analysts reacted in alarm.

This was a “big deal,” tweeted Thomas Moore, a former staffer at the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. “There is no price too high in this world for China and Russia to pay to get Japan's missing F-35, if they can.”

As China has ramped up its efforts to develop a fighter fleet to rival that of the US, the…

Nine organizers of the largest civil disobedience movement in Hong Kong’s history have been found guilty over their roles in the 2014 protests.

They were the final group of protesters to go on trial over the 79-day Occupy Central protests, also known as the Umbrella Movement, which exposed clashing visions for the future of the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.

China resumed control of the former British colony in 1997, promising the city a high degree of autonomy and eventual democratic…

When are bikinis allowed on China’s live-streaming apps, and when are they not?

As content moderators at Inke, one of China’s largest live-streaming companies with 25 million users, Zhi Heng and his brigade of 1,200 mostly fresh-faced college graduates have just seconds to decide whether the swimwear on their screens breaches the rules of the platform.

Here on the front lines of China’s war to police the internet, companies employ armies of censors to adjudicate the sea of content produced…

A video host in China has been put behind bars for wearing the symbolic Communist red scarf in a fishing video.

The woman surnamed Tang, from the southwestern province of Sichuan, had been posting content to the popular short-video app Kuaishou.

Tang’s videos, viewed millions of times, often depicted her standing in mudbanks and pulling eels from the ground – while clad in a variety of clothing including tank tops and short skirts and shorts.

The videos, which the authorities said feature…