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China on lashed out at what it called U.S. “coercion” after Panama declined to renew a key infrastructure agreement with Beijing following Washington’s threat to take back the Panama Canal.

The USPS said it will resume accepting inbound mail and packages from China and Hong Kong Posts, just hours after it suspended service from those regions.

China retaliated immediately on Tuesday as a 10% U.S. tariff on Chinese goods went into effect, announcing its own levies of 10% to 15% on some U.S. products.

A frenzy over an artificial intelligence chatbot made by Chinese tech startup DeepSeek was upending stock markets Monday and fueling debates over the economic and geopolitical competition between the U.S. and China in developing AI technology. DeepSeek’s AI assistant became the No. 1 downloaded free app on Apple’s iPhone store Monday, propelled by curiosity about the ChatGPT competitor. Part of...

The Chinese company released a free, open-source large language model in late December that can outperform leading models in the U.S.

Early this month, Trump suggested he would consider using military force to regain control of the canal from Panama, one of the U.S.’s closest allies in Latin America, describing it as “vital” for national security.

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump floated a 10% duty on China, with an expected start date of Feb. 1.

The law in question requires China-based TikTok owner ByteDance to divest itself of the company, arguing U.S. national security concerns.

The 7.1 magnitude quake struck parts of western China and Nepal on Tuesday morning.

“People do not have to leave the city and its tracks to experience poetry and wilderness”, said the architectural design firm behind the concept.

The U.S. Treasury Department said a state-sponsored Chinese hacking operation was able to use third-party software to tap into desktop computers of Treasury employees.

The Treasury Department says Chinese hackers remotely accessed several employee workstations and unclassified documents after compromising a third-party software service provider.

Dozens of Chinese workers have been taken and put up in hotels in Brazil’s tropical northeastern region after local labor authorities found them at a construction site for electric vehicle automaker BYD.

A sweeping Chinese government hacking campaign against American telecoms firms is a “very, very serious matter” that is “still going on,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Thursday in an interview on MSNBC.  Mayorkas confirmed that the long-term effort, nicknamed Salt Typhoon, was “a very sophisticated hack” that was not done “overnight.” The hacking campaign is one of the largest intelligence compromises...

China said it was expanding its visa-free transit policy, allowing eligible foreign travelers to stay in parts of the country as long as 10 days as officials try to attract more overseas visitors.

The agreement’s extension had been under negotiation for months after U.S. lawmakers raised concerns that cooperation with China could undermine national security.

Three American citizens imprisoned for years by China have been released.

Forty-five ex-lawmakers and activists have been sentenced to four to 10 years in prison in Hong Kong’s biggest national security case under a Beijing-imposed law that crushed a once-thriving pro-democracy movement.

Hackers affiliated with Beijing have compromised the networks of “multiple” telecommunications companies to obtain customer call records and gain access to the private communications of “a limited number of individuals,” the FBI said.

35 people were killed and dozens more were injured in an apparent intentional hit-and-run incident in southern Chinese city of Zhuhai, police said Tuesday.