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A new law aims to force ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns the platform, to sell the app under the threat of closure. It is a step with precedents in other countries that opens up multiple concerns and scenarios

The U.S. secretary of state ended his trip with a meeting with the Chinese president, who said the two countries should be ‘partners rather than rivals’

On his trip to Beijing, the U.S. secretary of state will try to consolidate America’s fragile understanding with the Asian giant. Taiwan, trade, and the South China Sea are among the key topics to be discussed

The Swedish historian, an advocate of classical liberalism, argues that for a certain sector of the right today, defending the beliefs of Thatcher and Reagan is being a ‘cultural Marxist’

Groundwater extraction and heavy skyscrapers are key factors in an accelerating trend

The International Monetary Fund projects Sudan, Japan and Singapore to have the highest liabilities

The U.S. president said last month that he opposed the merger, but went far further in his comment to the steelworkers at the Pittsburgh headquarters of the United Steelworkers

The international organization cautions that four years after the Covid pandemic, fiscal deficits and debts are higher than prepandemic forecasts had expected

Experts say that demand from China and the brands’ reception there will set the course for listed companies

EL PAÍS has compiled a list of words, places, people and acronyms that can help us understand a time of turbulent change, amidst the strain unleashed by geostrategic forces

The Italian firm’s poor performance in the Asian region is taking its toll on its parent company, French conglomerate Kering, owned by François-Henri Pinault

These days, only about 700 American students are studying at Chinese universities, down from a peak of close to 25,000 a decade ago, while there are nearly 300,000 Chinese students at U.S. schools

Following the trilateral meeting, Biden warned that any attack on Manila would trigger the mutual defense treaty

Researcher Sheldon Garon highlights the precedent that the Spanish conflict represented in the generalization of a tactic aimed at breaking the morale of the population

Biden and Japanese PM Fumio Kishida are meeting this week in Washington, which will also host the leader of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, to show America’s support following pressure from Beijing on Manila

Hefei, a city in the east, has become a model to follow for the technological development that Beijing wants to achieve in an economy that has been affected by the real estate crisis

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is on a visit to the Asian giant after the call between Biden and Xi, and her message to authorities focuses on ‘macroeconomic imbalances’ between both economies

The Treasury Secretary met with Chinese Premier Li Qiang and sent a message of mutual cooperation despite the nations’ differences

The social network tracks the preferences, personal information and online behavior of millions of users

The executive says that construction of a plant with the capacity to produce 300,000 vehicles will begin this year. The firm is continuing to analyze the best spot for this new factory

‘Unlike China and Russia, we consider that civil society and a free media are indispensable, especially now, as in the last decade support for democracy has declined,’ says the diplomat in conversation with EL PAÍS

The Chinese company’s stock surged after its SU7 electric car garnered 90,000 orders in 24 hours

Tuesday’s call was their first conversation since their November summit produced renewed ties between their militaries and a promise of enhanced cooperation on stemming the flow of fentanyl from China

Once a semiconductor market leader, the company has fallen behind the competition and is now worth 12 times less than Nvidia

Numerous works reflect the similarities of the current geopolitical situation with the Cold War era in parallel to the Russian invasion of Ukraine