China

The company’s collapse shows the liquidity crisis that sweeping the Asian giant’s real estate sector

Enshrined in the Constitution by the 13th Amendment, slavery and involuntary servitude are banned – except as punishment for a crime

The Chinese ambassador in Washington said dozens of Chinese have been denied entry every month for the past few months when returning to school from overseas travel

Dozens of Chinese developers have collapsed since 2020 under official pressure to rein in surging debt the ruling Communist Party views as a threat to China’s slowing economic growth

Foreign Minister Wang Yi tells U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan the island’s recent election did not change the fact that it is is part of China

That summit meeting was seen as an effort to patch up frayed relations due to quarrels over a range of economic and geopolitical issues

Factories act as merchants and ship their products to Temu warehouses in China, which are then delivered directly to consumers in the U.S. and other countries

One of Beijing’s top officials in the fight against drugs, the expert asserts that cooperation with the United States to prevent fentanyl trafficking ‘has been fully restored’

Japan’s ‘SLIM’ spacecraft executes a challenging landing, showcasing the complexity of this remarkable achievement

The United States, the EU and Arab countries are mobilizing to demand Israel stops its offensive in the Strip and commits to negotiating the two-state solution

As head of commercial aviation at the French-based airplane manufacturer, Scherer is confident that sustainable fuels will decarbonize the sector in the short and medium-term. In a conversation with EL PAÍS, he reiterates that the first hydrogen model will be flying by 2035

While most previous probes have used landing zones some 6 miles wide, SLIM was aiming at a target of just 330 feet

Kim Jong Un has been on a provocative run of weapons testing and threats that raised regional tensions to their highest point in years

Senior representatives from Washington, Beijing and Brussels present their approaches to a period that, according to the EU’s Ursula von der Leyen, represents the ‘greatest risk to the global order since the postwar era’

A group of Chinese researchers has perfected the technique for producing identical macaques but says that cloning people would be ‘completely unacceptable’

The roughly $78 billion in tax cuts would be paid for by more quickly ending a tax break Congress approved during the Covid-19 pandemic

The Ukrainian President described ‘the terrifying feeling that the war may never end.’ He also criticized a world that told him not to escalate tensions ahead of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022

The situation of Chinese real estate and inflation will also continue to be in the eye of the hurricane next year

The ultra-right Argentine president defends his radical reforms in Congress while reshaping the country’s international policy

Beijing has accused Washington of violating the ‘one-China principle’ after Antony Blinken congratulated the election winner, Lai Ching-te

The U.S., a close Israel ally, has rejected them as unfounded, the U.K. has called them unjustified, and Germany said it “explicitly rejects” them

It’s the big threat. A cheap, white powder — 50 times more powerful than heroin — which kills more than 70,000 people each year in the United States and countless others across the rest of the Western Hemisphere. EL PAÍS, in a long-term investigation that spanned two continents and included interviews with anti-drug czars in the U.S. and China, visited the clandestine laboratories in Sinaloa, where fentanyl is manufactured. In the vicinity of these Mexican labs, addicts serve as guinea pigs for drug traffickers. This newspaper has gathered testimonies about how this lethal substance crosses the border to the north and spreads like a plague through the streets of the most powerful country in the world. The trafficking of fentanyl is part of a global network with one foot in China, which the White House has declared war on

The current vice president, Lai Ching-te, rejected by Beijing for his pro-independence stance, wins the presidential elections on the self-governed island

The campaign events of the main parties show the island’s different options before Saturday’s elections. ‘Between three bad apples, we have to choose one,’ says a supporter of the DPP, which leads the polls

Russia’s average monthly expenditure on imports of battlefield goods from January to October 2023 stood at $932 million, only 10% less than the Kremlin was spending before sanctions

The campaign spokesperson of the group — which is leading the polls to win Saturday’s elections — is concerned that Beijing’s declared objective is to annex the self-governed island ‘peacefully or by force if necessary’