Authorities are violently cracking down on protesters who oppose a bill that would extradite people to China. Is resistance futile? By CG Fewston.

Chinese state television is gaining influence in Africa. But while the media outlets involved officially claim their journalism is independent, those who work for the companies tell a different story. By Bartholomäus Grill.

Hong Kong braces for another mass rally Sunday as public anger seethes following unprecedented clashes between protesters and police over an extradition law, despite a climbdown by the city’s embattled leader in suspending the bill. Organisers are hoping for another mammoth turnout as they vowed to keep pressure on chief executive Carrie Lam.

Hong Kong extradition bill: Carrie Lam backs down and 'suspends' legislation, sets no new time frame

American retailers, manufacturers and tech companies warned President Donald Trump on Thursday that tariffs on China will damage the US economy, lead to job losses and harm millions of consumers.

Mourners gathered at a cemetery in what’s now western China around 2,500 years ago to inhale fumes of burning cannabis plants that wafted from small wooden containers. High levels of the psychoactive compound THC in those ignited plants, also known as marijuana, would have induced altered states of consciousness.

Over the past two-and-a-half years, you’ve probably heard a lot about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election — but that is just one of several ways Russia is trying to undermine the US, CNN’s Jim Sciutto writes in his new book The Shadow War.

It's getting violent.

George Orwell’s 1984 was published exactly 70 years ago today but its horrifying vision of a world in which every citizen is monitored at all times by an all-knowing, all-seeing authoritarian “Big Brother” government seems oddly closer and more threatening than ever. Driven by a combination of surveillance and data processing technologies — artificial Intelligence, deep learning, facial recognition software, Internet of Things, the world is quickly adopted the very technologies that make such a system possible.

​For years now, scientists have marvelled at the insulating qualities of polar bear fur, suggesting that it could inspire manmade heat-retaining materials. Well, Chinese researchers have now developed just such a substance, which reportedly outperforms real fur.

Newspapers’ sites had until recently been among the few major English-language outlets still regularly accessible in mainland China.

More than 1 million protesters took to the streets of Hong Kong Sunday, organizers said, to oppose a controversial extradition bill that would enable China to extradite fugitives from the city.

A newly discovered virus has been found infecting people in China, and it may be transmitted by ticks, according to a new report. Researchers have dubbed the virus "Alongshan virus" after the town in northeastern China where it was first discovered, according to the report, published yesterday (May 29) in the New England Journal of Medicine. In humans, the virus is linked to a number of symptoms, including fever, headache and fatigue, and in some cases, nausea, rash and even coma.

China is preparing to deploy "major retaliative measures" over the US' decision to blacklist Huawei, according to the editor of one of the country's state media outlets. Hu Xijin, editor of the tabloid newspaper Global Times, wrote on Twitter: "China will take major retaliative measures against the US placing Huawei and other Chinese companies on Entity List." "This move indicates Beijing will not wait passively and more countermeasures will follow."

As the trade war heats up, Apple is an enticing target for Chinese reprisals. It derives a nearly 20% of its revenue from the country, and its supply chain is based there.

Three decades after the crackdown, Beijing is still terrified of the movement and what it stood for.

A state-owned rail company in China has built the prototype for a blazingly fast maglev train. The new prototype, built by the China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC), is being designed to carry passengers at 373 mph (600 km/h). China hopes the train will be serving passengers in 2021. “Take Beijing to Shanghai as an example — counting preparation time for the journey, it takes about 4.5 hours by plane, about 5.5 hours by high-speed rail, and [would only take] about 3.5 hours with [the new] high-speed maglev,” said CRRC deputy chief engineer Ding Sansan, head of the train’s research and development team, in a statement to CNN.

According to a report in the South China Morning Post, "Foxconn, the Taiwanese electronics manufacturer that assembles handsets for many phone brands including Apple and Xiaomi, has stopped several production lines for Huawei phones in recent days as the Shenzhen company reduced orders for new phones." The newspaper cited "people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named as the information is private."

Leading Chinese scientist warns approved modified babies could be just a year or two away.

In 2018, the Chinese scientist He Jiankui, Ph.D., altered the DNA of two human embryos, which were born as two healthy twin girls named Lulu and Nana. Against the violent ethical uproar in the medical community, He defended his experiment by claiming that the genetic changes he made were benign — they were meant to promote HIV resistance — but research published Monday in Nature Medicine has revealed that he may have spoken too soon.

Imagine calling a friend. Only instead of hearing a ring tone you hear a police siren, and then a voice intoning, “Be careful in your dealings with this person.” Would that put a damper on your rel…

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has warned U.S. firms of the risks.

The U.S. administration is considering limits to Chinese video surveillance firm Hikvision’s ability to buy U.S. technology, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, in a move that deepens worries about trade frictions between the world’s two top economies.

Both Apple and Huawei are entangled in the US and China trade war as tensions have grown over the last few weeks. A ‘Boycott Apple’ movement has gained steam in China, and many in the country are singing the praises of local tech giant Huawei while Trump has banned the company’s products. The latest example is a Chinese diplomat who has attacked Apple on Twitter saying Huawei has “cut Apple into pieces” but hilariously, he did it from an iPhone.

Mobile phone retailers in some Asian countries are refusing to accept Huawei devices for trade-ins, as more consumers look to offload their device on worries Google suspending business with the Chinese firm will disrupt services. Google has said it will comply with an order by U.S. President Donald Trump to stop supplying Huawei, meaning current owners of Huawei phones face being cut off from updates of the Android operating system from late August. New phones will lose access to popular apps such as YouTube and Chrome.

Some alarming news from the stratosphere. Chinese foam manufacturers are releasing an ozone-destroying chemical into the air that goes against an international agreement meant to fix the ozone layer, scientists announced in a study Wednesday. The chemical is a chlorofluorocarbon known as trichlorofluoromethane (CFC-11), which the world agreed to phase out starting in 2010. But just in the past six years, emissions of CFC-11 have increased by around 7,000 tons each year, and the source is eastern China, the study suggests.

U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods are hurting an unintended target as the trade war rages, an International Monetary Fund study found. The study, released Thursday, said that tariff revenue collected from levies on Chinese goods “has been borne almost entirely” by U.S. importers. China and the U.S. have been engaged in a trade war for more than a year. In that time, they have targeted billions of dollars worth of goods with high import tariffs.

The Trump administration's escalating trade dispute with China could have a significant impact on gaming in the near future. As reported by Game Daily, the Office of the United States Trade Representative has proposed a tariff of up to 25% on a wide array of products imported from China.

Huawei's founder, Ren Zhengfei, does not seem really resentful. Currently in the crosshairs of the US government, Huawei does not want to say that China retaliates by attacking Apple.

China is ready to use rare earths to strike back in a trade war with the United States

Escalating the fervor.

A sequel to the popular free-to-play online RPG Fallout Shelter is on its way - but only to mobile users in China, it seems. Trailers and gameplay footage have started to emerge giving us the first proper details about the mysterious new Fallout game you might never get to play.

China remains on schedule to ready its first independent mission to Mars in time for a short launch window in mid-2020, according to a leading space official. “Mars 2020 mission spacecraft is undergoing integration,” Wang Chi, director of the National Space Science Center (NSSC) in Beijing, told SpaceNews in a rare update on the mission.

The Department of Homeland Security is warning about the dangers of using Chinese-made drones, while some lawmakers want to prevent transit systems from buying Chinese-made subway cars.

Addressing delegates from Gansu Province at the second session of the 13th National People’s Congress (NPC) in Beijing on March 14 ,China’s President, Xi Jinping, pointed out that time was running out for fulfilling the lofty pledge to rid China of “extreme poverty” by 2020. “There should be no retreat until a complete victory is achieved,” Xi exhorted.