Three scientists working at New York University's Langone Medical Center are accused of leaking research funded by the National Institutes of Health to a rival research institute funded by the Chinese government. For one scientist, his compensation was pre-paid grad school tuition.
A new report by the Department of Defense claims for the first time that the Chinese government is directly connected to attacks on U.S. computer systems, including those owned by the government. What's with the change in tone?
Over the weekend, two new "We the People" petitions met the White House's 100,000-signatory standard for a formal response. Unlike most previous petitions, though, the majority of the people doing the signing are more than likely not American citizens.
The new People's Daily building is massive, imposing, and, uh, currently shaped like a colossal penis. So the country's censors are working overtime to stop Chinese people on social media from laughing at the expense of the very state-run newspaper in charge of controlling the country's message.
It looks like the new leader of China may have borrowed a propaganda slogan from mustachioed New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman.
The first reported case of a human infection outside mainland China arrived Wednesday, and that's got the world's top scientists pretty worried about this H7N9 strain — even if it's not being transmitted from person to person.
China's wildly fluctuating (and increasing) urban air pollution is prompting some residents of Beijing to seek homes elsewhere. A look at recent air pollution data, though, suggests that most of the country's cities suffer similar problems.
A powerful earthquake devastated China's southwestern region on Saturday leaving more at least 156 people dead and more than 5,500 injured, with expectations that those numbers will surely arise as the recovery efforts continue.
After mastering the art of drones (by way of Photoshop) and the science of sending a monkey (that was not real) into space, the latest breakthrough out of Iran is a "time machine." The only thing stopping production, apparently, is the fear that China will make millions of crappy versions of it.
An edited version of Quentin Tarantino's latest revenge-murder fest, Django Unchained, was supposed to open in China today, but was yanked from all its theaters—in some cases, even after the opening credits had already started rolling.
The total reported impact of this still very mysterious strain has grown to eight deaths and 24 infected people, but the bird flu might just be a lot worse than China is letting on — and it wouldn't be the first time the country's health officials have "covered up" a major disease threat.
Chinese President Xi Jinping used his first speech since taking over to indirectly call out North Korea for being so prickly lately. He never mentioned the country by name, but it's pretty clear who he was referring to.
Six people are dead from the H7N9 strain. The number of infected has grown to to 14. A new scare just hit Hong Kong. The U.S. has begun early research for a vaccine. And now China has slaughtered 20,000 chickens, ducks, geese, and pigeons to try and cut off the health risk at the source. So: Is it time to panic yet?
China's air pollution problem — which contributed to 1.2 million deaths in the country in 2010 — has gotten sharply worse in 2013. And the threat isn't contained to China. But things are still as ugly as ever in Beijing.
Apple CEO Tim Cook's public apology and his company's consumer friendly change to its Chinese iPhone warranty policy Monday was met with approval by China's state run media today — along with what sounds like a warning to "other American companies."
After weeks of anti-Apple rhetoric from China's state run media outlets complaining about iPhone customer service standards, Apple CEO Tim Cook has not only written a formal apology but even gone so far as to change the Chinese iPhone warranty policy.
Two men from Shanghai have died from a new strain of bird flu in the last month, sparking rumors that it might be related to the "pig soup" that has taken over local rivers.
Chinese state media has reported that 83 workers have been buried in a massive landslide in Tibet, but that efforts are being made to bring them out alive. Those efforts aren't looking too good.
After three straight days of anti-Apple articles in the state run newspaper People's Daily, China's propaganda push is having unintended effects, making the government look like the enemy in a fight it keeps on picking.
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Why was Bo Jiang, a Chinese national and NASA researcher, arrested at the airport by the FBI? And should you be worried? Here's what we know so far.
Right after China's state-run television station ran a damning documentary on Apple's customer-service practices, a bunch of Chinese celebrities took to China's version of Twitter, all at the same time, to paint a picture of Apple as bullying consumers. Is this a government conspiracy, coincidence, or some combination therein? Let's look at every theory.
Sky News' Mark Stone was in the middle of discussing efforts to ensure as little controversy as possible when he referred to the June 1989 protests. Then police stepped in, loaded him into a van, and transported him into the Forbidden City.
China's longstanding effort to solidify claims to various disputed areas has prompted a focus on an unexpected threat: Coke. The concern is probably overblown, though, given how much worse spying pays than selling soda.
As you are aware, the 1.2 billion members of the Catholic Church on Wednesday identified a new leader. You may not have heard, however, that the 1.3 billion citizens of China did as well, and just a few hours later.
Some 3,000 more decomposing pigs have been found in the river near Shanghai since Monday, bringing the number to about 6,000 dead hogs, but authorities claim that water is just fine.
No one knows how over 2,800 rotting pigs got into Shanghai's Huangpu river, but we do know that it also happens to be a source of drinking water for the city's 23 million citizens.
In between swipes at the United States, China's foreign minister Yang Jiechi called for new "rules and cooperation" against cyber attacks at the annual session of the National People's Congress this weekend.
It was the first time in decades Chinese state TV had shown the preparations for an execution, though it ended the broadcast just before the criminals' execution by lethal injection.
Ten days to the day that cyber security firm Mandiant released a blistering report on China's state-sponsored sustained hacking of the United States's vital infrastructure and top companies, the Chinese Ministry of Defense has its own report about the U.S. hacking two vital military sites.
Paul Krugman on elections in austere Italy, Mathew Ingram on Google re-upping a nasty Nascar video, Tom Gross on the UN and modern-day slavery, Gordon Chang on Foxconn's exit from China, and Timothy Lee on Comcast as a threat.
The New York Times is the latest media outlet to liken the quiet standoff between the United States and China over cyber security to "a new Cold War."
Paul Krugman on sequestration shenanigans, Heather McRobie on urging Obama to shut down Keystone XL, Michael Daly on cyberwarfare preparedness, Steve Hess on the elusive Chinese Spring, and Ryan Avent on the inflation we need.
In today's tour of state-sponsored propaganda: the link between video games and Korea's propaganda factory, how the end of Olympic wrestling brought Iran and the U.S. together, and China cracks down on food — not hackers.
Those with an eye on President Obama's targeted killing program say that the U.S. Justice Department's recently leaked "white paper" justifying drone targets would have allowed for China, if it used America's new legal boundaries with its own killer technology, to execute a wanted kingpin from the sky.
Greg Austin on China's hackers, Matthew Yglesias on an expensive airline merger, Jamelle Bouie on sequestration backfiring on the GOP, George Packer on Walmart and the payroll tax, and Hadley Freeman on Hilary Mantel and the media's royal-industrial complex.
Days after cybersecurity firm Mandiant published an eye-popping report of state-sponsored cyber espionage by the China's People’s Liberation Army, the Chinese have fired back.
From The New York Times and the Defense Department to Facebook and now even Apple, there's one increasingly sophisticated type of spam to watch out for — and here are some tips, just in case the Chinese hacker war hits your inbox next.
Following a string of disclosures from big companies that could point to a larger Chinese threat, Apple on Tuesday became the latest to admit that its internal computers had been hacked — and by the same malware malfeasance that got inside Facebook.
If it weren't for the strictness of the Chinese government's Internet firewall, security firm Mandiant may never have discovered the identities of the Chinese army's instantly notorious "Comment Crew."
Bill McKibben on the Keystone XL pipeline, David Brooks on the shortcomings of big data, William Pesek on China's North Korean neighbors, Scott Winship on the robot economy, and Jonah Goldberg on liberal Hollywood.
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Remember that scary column Obama wrote last year, describing the nightmarish scenario of a crippling cyber attack that shut down our power grid and poisoned our water? It just got real.
Now that Samsung has its own hype cycle, it seems only fair to keep track of what the tech rumormongers are saying about the upcoming Galaxy S IV.
Facebook announced in a blog post on Friday afternoon that its "systems had been targeted in a sophisticated attack" and that "Facebook was not alone," which immediately raised the cyber-espionage question of the moment: Was China behind this one, too?
North Korea says it wants to conduct one or two more nuclear tests this year in order to force the United States into diplomatic talks — by doing the exact opposite of what the United States wants them to.
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Chinese hackers are on a digital espionage campaign targeting a vast array of pretty much any major American organization "with intellectual property to protect," and now that there's a rare human side to combatting the malware attacks, we know there's not enough being done to stop the hackers yet.
With Tim Cook as an official guest, the President will be able to look up into the Capitol's VIP box at an Apple figurehead for his second straight State of the Union — except after the year Apple's had, maybe it won't be such an awkward thumbs-up to China this time.
Japan's Ministry of Defense is upset with the Chinese navy frigate that locked onto a Japanese navy ship with radar usually used to shoot missiles.
If you're from a country like the United States where the Constitution is sacrosanct, it's hard to comprehend a burgeoning political movement in China that's demanding its leaders obey the country's basic law.
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