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A resurfaced video from the Obama-era White House shows Joe Biden joking about asking Mainland China to help him become president. Biden made those remarks at a U.S.-Chinese forum in Washington back in 2013 while referring to his earlier meeting with Xi Jinping who had just become Chinese president. NEW (from me) Joe Biden joked …

Two Australian journalists fled China after being questioned by intelligence agents and forced to seek the protection of their country’s government, their news organizations said Tuesday. Chinese officials told Bill Birtles, Beijing correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and Mike Smith, Shanghai correspondent for the Australian Financial Review (AFR) that they were “persons of …

In the credits of Disney’s new Mulan movie, the company offers a special thanks to four Chinese Communist Party propaganda departments and a public security bureau in the region of Xinjiang where more than a million Muslims, mostly of the Uighur minority, have been imprisoned in concentration camps. Disney recently revealed that some scenes in …

Hollywood is casting more light-skinned actors for major roles in movies to appeal to Chinese audiences following the Communist Party allowing more foreign films in the country, according to a report on Tuesday. Since 2012, US filmmakers apparently became aware of the aesthetic preferences of Chinese movie-goers — who place a higher premium on light …

The Trump administration may ban products made with cotton from China’s Xinjiang region amid concerns about human rights abuses there, a new report says. The move could cause an upheaval in a global apparel industry that relies heavily on materials from China, a country the US has sought to punish for allegedly forcing Xinjiang’s Muslim …

Amazon has banned foreign merchants from selling seeds and plants to US customers while officials investigate the Chinese seed packets that were mysteriously delivered to Americans. The e-commerce giant’s seller policy now prohibits listings for seeds that are imported to the US from abroad or sold by someone who lives outside the country. “Moving forward, …

The Trump Administration’s looming TikTok ban may be just the beginning. The US government is scrutinizing a number of other apps owned by Chinese-based companies to see if they pose a national security threat, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said Thursday. Meadows did not specify what apps the administration might target, but his …

China is forcing some residents of Xinjiang Province to take concoctions of traditional Chinese medicine to treat coronavirus, even though the medicines are not scientifically proven to be effective against the illness, the Associated Press reported on Monday. Xinjiang has been under lockdown for 45 days following the appearance of over 800 cases of coronavirus. …

China appears to be putting up roadblocks to TikTok parent ByteDance’s efforts to divest the video-sharing app’s US operations to comply with President Trump’s orders to sell it to a US company by September 15 or see it shut down in the US. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce added 23 items Friday to a list …

Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe announced on Friday that he would resign for health reasons, marking the end of his tenure as Japan’s longest-serving leader. Abe was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis as a teenager, and first stepped down one year into his first term in 2006 because of complications from the chronic illness. However, Abe …