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The Chinese Communist Party announced Thursday that it would propose sweeping new national security laws for Hong Kong, effectively bypassing Hong Kong’s local government to amend its current independent legal system. The head of China’s top political body, Wang Yang, announced Thursday that the move would be an “improvement” to the Basic Law, which has …

Documents from the Chinese government show that Beijing requested the extradition of a Uighur man who left China amid the communist country’s continued oppression of his Muslim community and fled to Turkey. A 2016 document asks for the extradition of Enver Turdi, who in 2014 fled Xinjiang in northwest China, where there is a large community of Uighur …

The Trump administration has ramped up pressure on the Chinese Communist Party by forging closer political and business ties with Taiwanese technology firms, while at the same time working to undermine Chinese tech giant Huawei, according to a report. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, or TSMC, said last week it would build a factory in Arizona, …

More U.S. voters see China as an “enemy” than as a friend or ally amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new Politico/Morning Consult poll. The data shows that the percentage of U.S. voters who see China as hostile has risen 11 percentage points since January to 31 percent, while the number of respondents who …

The Nasdaq Stock Market notified the Chinese cafe chain Luckin Coffee that it plans to delist it from the U.S. stock exchange, the company said Tuesday. The Listing Qualifications Staff cited two reasons in their written notice for the decision to delist, the company said in a regulatory filing, including “public interest concerns” related to …

An Australian university will hold a hearing on Wednesday to consider the expulsion of a student after he protested against the Chinese Communist Party. Drew Pavlou, 20, is a philosophy major at the University of Queensland, whose website states that it possesses “more student mobility, research collaborations, and commercialization partnerships with China than with almost …

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg called China’s social-media censorship “really dangerous” during an online debate Monday, adding that “the best antidote” to the Chinese Communist Party’s model is “a clear regulatory framework that comes out of Western democratic countries.” Speaking to the European Union’s internal market commissioner Thierry Breton, Zuckerberg said he was worried about China’s …

President Trump on Monday threatened to pull the U.S. out of the World Health Organization and end funding permanently if the group does not immediately address concerns about its deference to China. “It is clear the repeated missteps by you and your organization in responding to the pandemic have been extremely costly for the world,” …

The World Health Organization on Monday acquiesced to pressure from its member nations to submit to an investigation into its response to the coronavirus pandemic. The WHO will launch an independent review of the organization’s response to the global health crisis “at the earliest appropriate moment,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at the annual …

China’s President Xi Jinping said Monday that China will contribute $2 billion in aid to combat the coronavirus in other countries as the world’s second largest economy works to repair its global image after the pandemic spread beyond its borders. The funds, which will be distributed over two years, are intended to “help with Covid-19 response, …