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Chinese are now the fourth-largest nationality crossing the dangerous jungle route through Panama. The number of Afghans, Indians and Bangladeshis is also increasing

The analysis of 90 scientific investigations concludes that living alone and having few social relationships shortens life

American private investigator Michael McMahon and two Chinese citizens living in the U.S. — Zheng Congying and Zhu Yong — all were accused of taking part in scare tactics aimed at a former Chinese official

As sales stall in the People’s Republic, desire to drive further overseas including to Europe is turning into a necessity. But rising anti-China sentiment will make for a difficult journey

Washington is strengthening traditional alliances such as NATO, while in the Asia Pacific it is forging new networks with more limited objectives

Blinken and Xi pronounce themselves satisfied with progress made during two days of talks, without pointing to specific areas of agreement

William Maloney, the World Bank’s chief economist for the region, talks about the impact of inflation, the threat of climate change and the growing influence of China in the area

U.S. and Chinese officials say the two countries have failed to overcome their most serious disagreements but were able to discuss them in a potentially constructive way and have agreed to continue talks

Animosity and recriminations have steadily escalated over a series of disagreements that have implications for global security and stability

Social collectives are pushing for change regarding the mining of lithium, cobalt and nickel necessary for the production of electric cars, solar panels and wind turbines as the current system mainly benefits companies and countries in the developed world

Fifty-five percent of the targets were from the Americas and 24% from the Asia Pacific region. They included foreign ministries, foreign trade offices and academic organizations

The Secretary of State will be the most senior U.S. official to visit China since President Joe Biden took office and amid rising tensions between the two countries

Almost a century after his disappearance, the remains of Andrew Irvine and the camera that could prove that he and George Mallory summited in 1924 have still not been found

Taiwan’s TSMC, South Korea’s Samsung and U.S.-based Nvidia are leaders in a strategic sector where commercial and geopolitical interests overlap

China’s official CCTV says Foreign Minister Qin Gang and his Honduran counterpart Enrique Reina took part in the inauguration of the embassy on Sunday morning

The existence of the Chinese spy base was confirmed after The Wall Street Journal reported that China and Cuba had reached an agreement to build an electronic eavesdropping station on the island

The ex-employee from ByteDance, the Chinese company which owns the popular short-video app TikTok, says those same people had access to U.S. user data

Blinken’s trip comes after the kingdom under Prince Mohammed has been more willing to disregard the U.S. in striking its own decisions, straining relations between Riyadh and Washington

The agency estimates that the international economy will expand just 2.1% in 2023 after growing 3.1% in 2022

The incident occurred Saturday as the American destroyer USS Chung-Hoon and Canadian frigate HMCS Montreal were conducting a so-called ‘freedom of navigation’ transit of the strait between Taiwan and mainland China

A strong police presence prevented acts of tribute in Hong Kong, where there have been more than a dozen arrests. The violent repression against students on June 4, 1989 is now a taboo subject in the country

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke in the same forum Saturday and said that Washington would not “flinch in the face of bullying or coercion” from China

In Hong Kong, which had been the last Chinese-controlled territory to hold commemorations, eight people, including activists and artists, were detained on the eve of the anniversary of the crackdown

The U.S. has been expanding its own activities around the Indo-Pacific to counter sweeping territorial claims from China, including regularly sailing through and flying over the Taiwan Strait and in the South China Sea

America will not leave a void in the Middle East to be filled by others, a high ranking official has asserted

Environmental advocates cautiously welcomed the outcome of five days of U.N. talks in Paris on but expressed concern that the petroleum industry and some governments would water down the eventual deal