DAKE KANG

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, and Kenyan President William Ruto attend a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People Thursday, April 24, 2025 in Beijing, China. (Iori Sagisawa/Pool Photo via AP)
Kenyan president vows closer ties to China during visit amid Trump’s trade war
Kenyan President William Ruto pledged to build closer ties with China on Thursday, a day after saying a global trade war triggered by Washington could deal a “death blow” to the current world order.
April 24
Members of the IPAC (Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China) attend its Taipei Summit in Taipei, Taiwan, , July 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying, File)
Beijing ups diplomatic pressure on Africa as the US pulls back
Chinese diplomats threatened to cancel a summit and called top officials in two African countries to pressure lawmakers to quit an international parliamentary group critical of China, officials from the group told The Associated Press.
April 9
Uniformed and plainclothes security officers stand guard outside the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, Aug. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
US bans government personnel in China from romantic or sexual relations with Chinese citizens
The U.S. government has banned American government personnel in China, as well as family members and contractors with security clearances, from any romantic or sexual relationships with Chinese citizens.
April 3
This photo provided by Thailand's daily web newspaper Prachatai shows a truck with black tape covering the windows leave a detention center in Bangkok, Thailand, on Feb. 27, 2025. (Nuttaphol Meksobhon/Prachatai via AP, File)
Thai officials secretly planned to deport Uyghurs while making repeated public denials
Testimony from parliamentary inquiries and other evidence shows that top Thai officials secretly decided to hand a group of Uyghur detainees over to China while denying plans to do so in public, giving the detainees and their advocates no chance to make a last-ditch appeal before they were bundled o
March 24
The U.S. Department of Justice building is seen in Washington, Dec. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
US charges Chinese hackers and government officials in a broad cybercrime campaign
China is denying the U.S. Justice Department’s accusations against 12 Chinese nationals charged in connection with global cybercrime campaigns targeting dissidents, news organizations, U.S. agencies and universities.
March 6
This photo provided by Thailand's daily web newspaper Prachatai shows trucks with black tape covering the windows leave a detention center in Bangkok, Thailand Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025.(Nuttaphol Meksobhon/Prachatai via AP)
Thailand deports 40 Uyghur men back to China after more than a decade in detention
Thai and Chinese officials have confirmed that a group of 40 Uyghur men detained in Thailand for more than a decade have been deported to China. The men made a public appeal last month to halt the deportation.
February 28
In this photo provided by Zhang Yazhou, she sits on the roof of her damaged Tesla Model 3 with a bullhorn outside a Tesla dealership in Zhengzhou, the capital of central China’s Henan province, on March, 9, 2021. Banner reads, “Tesla brake failure.” (Courtesy Zhang Yazhou via AP)
Takeaways: Tesla has sued Chinese customers and journalists — and won almost every time
Tesla has sued its own customers and journalists in China for defamation and won just about every time.
February 12
This photo provided by Zhang Yazhou shows her damaged Tesla Model 3, left, which her father was driving when it hit two other cars before crashing to a halt against a concrete barrier in Anyang, a city in central China’s Henan province, on Feb. 21, 2021. Zhang was in the passenger seat. Her mother and her one-year-old niece were at the back. (Zhang Yazhou via AP)
Her parents were injured in a Tesla crash. She ended up having to pay Tesla damages
Tesla has sued its own customers and journalists in China for defamation – and won just about every time.
February 12
Police stand outside an immigration detention center of the Immigration Bureau where Uyghur detainees are held in Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025. The detainees say they are facing deportation back to China, where they fear persecution. (AP Photo/Haruka Nuga)
Uyghurs detained in Thailand say they face deportation and persecution in China
A group of Uyghurs who were detained in Thailand over a decade ago say that the Thai government is preparing to deport them to China, alarming activists who say the men are at risk of abuse and torture if they are sent back.
January 11
In this image from video, Wu Qian, Chinese Defense Ministry spokesperson, speaks during a Defense Ministry press conference held in Beijing, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Borg Wong)
High-ranking military official in China suspended and placed under investigation
China’s Defense Ministry says a a high-ranking military official has been suspended while he is under investigation.
November 29, 2024
Rave attendees dance in an abandoned air raid shelter in Guangzhou, China on Aug. 20, 2023. (Fang Qi via AP)
Welcome to China’s underground raves, from street techno to quotes from Chairman Mao
By day, Xing Long works in an office for a state-owned company in Changchun, an industrial city in the northeastern rust belt of China.
November 13, 2024
Chinese President Xi Jinping, centre, and Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto attend a welcome ceremony during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Nov. 9, 2024. (Florence Lo/Pool Photo via AP)
Newly inaugurated Indonesian President Subianto visits China in first overseas trip
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has pledged to maintain close ties with China during a meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing, his first overseas stop since he took office three weeks ago.
November 9, 2024
The front cover of Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump's "God Bless the USA" Bible in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Trump has long blasted China’s trade practices. His ‘God Bless the USA’ Bibles were printed there
Thousands of copies of Donald Trump’s “God Bless the USA” Bible were printed in China, a country that the former president has repeatedly accused of stealing American jobs and engaging in unfair trade practices.
October 9, 2024
Chinese journalist Jia Jia talks with a friend at a bookstore in Tokyo, Japan, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)
For many investors and intellectuals leaving China, it’s Japan — not the US — that’s the bigger draw
Well-heeled Chinese are moving to Japan in droves, buying up homes and harboring hopes for opportunities. Some are scholars and artists. Others are dot-com entrepreneurs.
September 5, 2024
A rider passes by an abandoned construction project on the outskirts of Beijing, Thursday, July 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Facing budget crunches, Chinese tax collectors descend on companies
Chinese authorities are chasing unpaid taxes from companies and individuals dating back decades, as the government moves to plug massive budget shortfalls and address a mounting debt crisis.
August 8, 2024
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te, center, arrives to speak at a gathering of the largest delegation of foreign lawmakers to visit Taiwan in Taipei, Taiwan on Tuesday, July 30, 2024. The delegation by the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, or IPAC, is a group of hundreds of lawmakers from 35 countries concerned about how democracies approach Beijing. Lai told attendees that their participation showed the importance of democratic unity, even as Beijing put pressure on lawmakers not to attend the conference. (AP Photo/Dake Kang)
Taiwan president urges democracies to unite at largest-ever gathering of foreign lawmakers in Taipei
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te has welcomed what he said is the largest ever delegation of foreign lawmakers to Taiwan, even as Beijing pressured members of the delegation not to visit.
July 30, 2024
Luke de Pulford, Executive Director of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, July 27, 2024. Chinese diplomats are pressuring lawmakers from at least six countries not to attend a China-focused conference hosted by the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China in Taiwan, participants told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)
Lawmakers from 6 countries say Beijing is pressuring them not to attend conference in Taiwan
Lawmakers from at least six countries say Chinese diplomats are pressuring them not to attend a China-focused conference in Taiwan.
July 29, 2024
Virologist Zhang Yongzhen, the first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus, walks down a street in Shanghai, China on Dec. 13, 2020. Zhang was staging a sit-in protest after authorities locked him out of his lab. Zhang wrote in an online post on Monday, April 29, 2024, that he and his team were suddenly notified they were being evicted from their lab, the latest in a series of setbacks, demotions and ousters since he first published the sequence in early January 2020.(AP Photo/Dake Kang)
Chinese scientist who published COVID-19 virus sequence allowed back in his lab after sit-in protest
The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China says he has been allowed back into his lab after days of protest.
May 1, 2024
Virologist Zhang Yongzhen speaks at a coffeeshop in Shanghai, China on Dec. 13, 2020. Zhang, the first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China was staging a sit-in protest after authorities locked him out of his lab. Zhang wrote in an online post on Monday, April 29, 2024, that he and his team were suddenly notified they were being evicted from their lab, the latest in a series of setbacks, demotions and ousters since he first published the sequence in early January 2020. (AP Photo/Dake Kang)
Chinese scientist who first published COVID sequence stages protest after being locked out of lab
The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China staged a sit-in protest outside his lab after authorities locked him out of the facility.
April 30, 2024
FILE - A policeman moves journalists back from a farewell event held for the last group of medical workers who came from outside Wuhan to help the city during the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on April 15, 2020. The hunt for COVID-19 origins has gone dark in China. An AP investigation drawing on thousands of pages of undisclosed emails and documents and dozens of interviews found feuding officials and fear of blame ended meaningful Chinese and international efforts to trace the virus almost as soon as they began, despite years of public statements to the contrary. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
Takeaways from AP report on how the search for the coronavirus origins turned toxic
The Chinese government froze meaningful efforts to trace the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, despite publicly declaring that it supported an open scientific inquiry, an Associated Press investigation has found.
April 22, 2024
FILE - A security person moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organization team arrived for a field visit in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Feb. 3, 2021. The hunt for COVID-19 origins has gone dark in China. An AP investigation drawing on thousands of pages of undisclosed emails and documents and dozens of interviews found feuding officials and fear of blame ended meaningful Chinese and international efforts to trace the virus almost as soon as they began, despite years of public statements to the contrary. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
Toxic: How the search for the origins of COVID-19 turned politically poisonous
The Chinese government froze meaningful efforts to trace the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, despite publicly declaring that it supported an open scientific inquiry, an Associated Press investigation has found.
April 22, 2024
David Moser, an American and associate professor at Capital Normal University in Beijing, poses for a photo at the university, Friday, March 22, 2024 in Beijing, China. Only about 700 American students are studying at Chinese universities, while there are nearly 300,000 Chinese students are at U.S. schools. Without these U.S. students, “in the next decade, we won’t be able to exercise savvy, knowledgeable diplomacy in China,” warned Moser, an American linguist who went to China in the 1980s and is now tasked with establishing a new master's program for international students at Beijing Capital Normal University. (AP Photo/Dake Kang)
Far fewer young Americans now want to study in China. Both countries are trying to fix that
The imbalance in the U.S.-China relationship extends beyond trade to the world of higher education. These days, only about 700 American students are studying at Chinese universities, down from a peak of almost 25,000 a decade ago, while there are nearly 300,000 Chinese students at U.S. schools.
April 13, 2024
FILE - A man walks along the road in the city of Handan in northern China's Hebei province on Feb. 28, 2024. Chinese authorities in the Feixiang district near Handan city announced three suspects have been detained over the March 10, 2024 gruesome murder of a thirteen-year-old boy, riveting users on Chinese social media and sparking debate over bullying and mental health in China's countryside. (AP Photo/Emily Wang Fujiyama, File)
Detention of 3 teens over gruesome killing of 13-year-old classmate sparks debate in China
Three teens have been detained over the gruesome murder of a 13-year-old boy in China, sparking debate over bullying and mental health in China’s countryside.
March 19, 2024
Plainclothes policemen have a chat as they stand watch outside the barricaded Sichuan Trust office building in Chengdu in southwestern China's Sichuan Province on Feb. 27, 2024. Some investors in a troubled trust fund in China are facing financial ruin under a government plan to return a fraction of their money, casualties of a slump in the property industry and a broader economic slowdown. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Elderly retirees face big losses after Chinese trust goes bust, reflecting turbulent economy
Some investors in a troubled Chinese trust fund are facing financial ruin under a government plan to return a fraction of their money back.
March 13, 2024
FILE - The interior of the I-Soon office, also known as Anxun in Mandarin, is seen after office hours in Chengdu in southwestern China's Sichuan Province on Feb. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Dake Kang, File)
Behind the doors of a Chinese hacking company, a sordid culture fueled by influence, alcohol and sex
China’s hacking industry, leaked internal documents reveal, is vast in size and scope but also suffers from shady business practices, disgruntlement over pay and work quality, and poor security protocols.
March 8, 2024
A young couple walk by a construction site near office buildings in the Central Business District in Beijing on March 2, 2024. China's efforts to restore confidence and rev up the economy will top the agenda during this month’s meeting of the ceremonial national legislature.(AP Photo/Andy Wong)
China seeks ways to revive slowing economy and salvage property market as annual congress convenes
China’s efforts to restore confidence and rev up the economy will top the agenda during this month’s meeting of the ceremonial national legislature.
March 4, 2024
FILE- Wang Zhi'an speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Tokyo on Oct. 5, 2022. Wang, as well as artist-turned-dissident Li Ying, said in separate posts Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024, that police were interrogating people who followed them on social media, and urged followers to take precautions such as unfollowing their accounts, changing their usernames, avoiding Chinese-made phones and preparing for to be questioned.(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
Two Chinese bloggers in exile warn that police are interrogating their followers
Two prominent Chinese bloggers in exile said that police were investigating their millions of followers on international social media platforms, in an escalation of Beijing’s attempts to clamp down on critical speech even outside of the country’s borders.
February 27, 2024
The interior of the I-Soon office, also known as Anxun in Mandarin, is seen after office hours in Chengdu in southwestern China's Sichuan Province on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. Chinese police are investigating an unauthorized and highly unusual online dump of documents from a private security contractor linked to China’s top policing agency and other parts of its government. (AP Photo/Dake Kang)
An online dump of Chinese hacking documents offers a rare window into pervasive state surveillance
Chinese police are investigating an unauthorized and highly unusual online dump of documents from a private security contractor linked to China’s top policing agency and other parts of its government.
February 22, 2024
FILE - Protesters hold up blank pieces of paper and chant slogans as they march to protest strict anti-virus measures in Beijing, Nov. 27, 2022. Thousands of people demonstrated across China in what came to be called the White Paper movement, after the blank sheets of paper protesters used to represent the country's strict censorship controls. One year later, China has all but forgotten the protests. The state reacted quickly, breaking up the marches with arrests and threats and ending COVID-19 controls. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
One year after protests shook China, participants ponder the meaning of the brief flare of defiance
A year ago, Li Houchen was on the streets of Shanghai, hollering “Freedom!” to protest China’s harsh “zero COVID” controls and growing authoritarianism.
November 28, 2023
Zeng Fanzhi, a retired architect turned artist, pauses during an interview at his studio in Shenzhen in southern China's Guangdong province, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. Zeng painted stark, realist portrayals of life in China under zero-COVID, saying he did so to capture a unique moment in history. (AP Photo/Dake Kang)
Artist Zeng Fanzhi depicts ‘zero-COVID’ after a lifetime of service to the Chinese state
A year after protests pushed Beijing to end its stringent “zero-COVID” controls, a retired architect is on the road displaying portraits of life under the policy.
November 27, 2023
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