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?
We've come full circle in this tale of Chinese worker exploitation, re-reaching the conclusion that Foxconn is still a hard place to work after hearing what it's really like from a woman who works on the inside.
Coming on the deadliest single day of the Syrian uprisings, Russia and China vote against a U.N. Security Council resolution that sought to put an end to Bashar al-Assad's brutal crackdowns.
It might not make sense to Americans, with our cushy office jobs filled with ergonomic keyboards and yoga-ball chairs, but a job at Foxconn is something a lot of Chinese people want.
Twitter chief executive Dick Costolo, stern-faced and blank-eyed, explained his company's new censorship capabilities defensively on Monday night.
An investigative series by the New York Times and a performance piece by Mike Daisey featured on This American Life have put the spotlight on Foxconn, the Taiwanese company whose massive Chinese factories manufacture some of the world's most popular consumer electronics. Here's a quick look at what we know about Foxconn.
China is totally important and just like the United States and Britain, it now has its own special section in The Economist.
A huge A1 story in The New York Times about safety problems at Chinese electronics factories is sure to turn up the heat on Apple as Americans become more and more aware of the true price of their beloved gadgets.
In what might be the craziest thing you'll see this week (yes, it's only Tuesday), here's a video of Chinese soldiers playing hot potato with a live grenade explosive. Apparently it's an official military exercise.
At least one protester was killed and perhaps as many as 50 others wounded in western China on Monday, as violence between Tibetan activists and Chinese security forces continues to escalate.
With the U.S. government trying to pass what Google's Sergey Brin has called "China-like censorship," China has found a new way to tamp down free expression on the Internet: make people use their real names.
Apple released a complete list of its suppliers for the first time on Friday, saying some of the 156 companies with which it contracts don't adhere to its standards for labor or environmental practices, including a ban on child labor.
Now that Foxconn has fixed one pay dispute, we can't quite stop feeling guilty that the workers making our iPhones and Xboxes hate their lives so much they threaten suicide.
Iran's been careful to dangle it's massive oil supply in the West's face as it threatens to close the Strait of Hormuz, but no matter what the country ends up doing, we've got a backup plan.
The Obama administration's new defense strategy unveiled today says China is actively trying to curb America's military might but, in covert and overt ways, the Defense Department is bulking up its presence in the Middle Kingdom's backyard.
Despite growing calls for President Obama to call Iran's bluff in the Strait of Hormuz, the Islamic republic could credibly close off the waterway, according to military experts speaking to Reuters and The New York Times.
Startling analysts, U.S. stocks soared today, the first day of trading for 2012, with the Dow jumping 180 points and the S&P 500 up 1.5 percent.
Sure, we knew that China some air pollution problems, but this photo getting attention on Reddit drives the point home.
China's long-anticipated report detailing what caused one bullet train to crash into another one back in July came out on Wednesday, and while 54 people share the blame, the bulk of the responsibility has been assigned to one dead guy and another who's already in jail, limiting political fallout.
The U.S. Treasury Department issued a report Tuesday saying they would not term China a "currency manipulator," despite widespread claims that the Chinese government keeps the value of the yuan artificially low
Chicken feet exports to China, which at one point brought in $278 million for the United States, has become a rather facetious-sounding sparring ground for very serious trade conflicts between the two countries.
Actor Christian Bale was physically confronted by government guards when he tried to visit a blind activist lawyer being confined to his home.
Today in sports: The bidding process for star Japanese pitcher Yu Darvish ends tonight, Cleveland Browns president Mike Holmgren thinks his training staff is doing a heckuva job, and Chinese soccer struggles to keep up with the march of progress.
A commercial satellite company has released this photo of the Varyag, the thousand-foot-long, 55,000-ton beast of a boat that the Chinese military is cruising around the Yellow Sea in a second round of sea tests this month.
As the United States considers its own measures to block illegal websites, India's government is pulling a China and asking Internet companies like Facebook and Google to start screening all user generated content.
Today in sports: The Minnesota Vikings release Donovan McNabb, a Michigan State cheerleader is out of the hospital after a scary fall during last night's game against Florida State, and NBA players in China are stuck there until March.
The central banks of the U.S., Japan, England, Switzerland, Canada and the eurozone teamed up this morning to prop up the global economy and make it easier for banks to receive dollars when they need it.
Today in sports: FIFA is worried about Brazil's "nightmare" traffic jams, Urban Meyer returns to college football after a 355-day hiatus, and the NFL offers China an olive branch (and Tony Dorsett).
If the term "Internet troll" conjures up unintimidating images of angry, acne-faced computer geeks, the phrase "Internet water army" just sounds horrifying, like a force of besuited villains from a graphic novel.
Robert Samuelson on the debt deal, Jane Mayer on Keystone XL, Gordon Crovitz on tent cities, Lawrence Summers on income inequality, and Yan Xuetong on China's rise.
Also: Steven Soderbergh cries U.N.C.L.E., Terrence Malick and your little brother have similar taste in films, and CNN correspondent Jim Acosta did not like being asked to leave an airplane bathroom.
A self-immolation took place in the heart of China's capital city last month, but it has taken weeks for the news to leak out via foreign tourists.
Vladimir Putin is the winner of the second annual Confucius Peace Prize — for orchestrating a "remarkable enhancement to the military might and political status of Russia." Really?!
The New York Times has published an interactive feature that doubles as Rosetta Stone lessons for continent-hopping businessmen, with a very 21st-century piece in the World section on the pronunciation and meanings of Western brand names in Chinese.
Ai Weiwei's wife has said that her husband will be using supportive donations given (and paper-airplaned) to them in order to contest China's $2.4 million in tax fines levied against the artist, multiple outlets reported.
The big story from the sports world is the potential ouster of Joe Paterno as head coach of Penn State -- which, strangely enough, leads us to a question: Is it ever OK for someone to destroy his or her college diploma?
Ai Weiwei, the now-freed dissident who was served notice for $2.4 million dollars in tax fines by China, has been getting a flood of donations to help pay off the steep bill, the artist told multiple news outlets.
Nuclear bombs capable of pulverizing entire cities should probably be kept in a safe place. According to The Atlantic's new cover story, in Pakistan, they're transported in civilian-style vans through busy traffic.
It's not like China or Russia are looking at your embarrassing purchases or the hours you spend watching cat videos--it's all about economics.
Officials from both countries offered comment on the movement today
It's time for our regular roundup of propaganda from around the world
Russia and China are spinning why they won't condemn the Syrian regime
Also points out that she's a member of the House Intelligence Committee
Apple even secured patents on the buildings' unique design elements
It's time for our regular roundup of propaganda from around the world
It's time for our regular roundup of propaganda from around the world
Former students claim the painting was forged 30 years after the death of the artist
It's time for our regular roundup of propaganda from around the world
China's debt clout and the island nation's needs loomed large
Taiwan will have to settle for upgrades rather than new models
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