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New Yorkers flock to Manhattan park for lovable woodcocks’ bobbing strut

American woodcocks continue to attract onlookers in a New York City park. The curious birds are known for their bobbing walks and kazoo-like calls.

 

Q&A: What has China done so far? What could China do next?

A reordering of global trading relationships could be underway as the world’s two largest economies clash and relations spiral into a trade war.

 

What to expect when China’s legislature meets this week

China’s annual major political event gets underway this week to endorse decisions already made by the all-powerful Chinese Communist Party.

 

Silence descends around China’s deadliest mass killing in years as flowers cleared away

Online discussion about China’s deadliest mass killing in years was being censored Wednesday as authorities in a southern city cleared candles and flowers from the memorial to the 35 people dead.

 

Australian treasurer, visiting Beijing, welcomes Chinese efforts to stimulate its economy

Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers has welcomed efforts by China to perk up its slowing economy. Chalmers was wrapping up a two-day visit to Beijing, the first by an Australian treasurer to China in seven years, as strained bilateral relations mend.

 

A 10-year-old Japanese boy stabbed near his school in China has died

Officials in Tokyo say a 10-year-old Japanese student attending a Japanese school in southern China who was attacked the day before has died, asking Beijing to provide details of the stabbing and take preventive measures.

 

China is raising its retirement age, now among the youngest in the world’s major economies

China is raising its retirement age for workers, which is now among the youngest in the world’s major economies.

 

Leaders of China and Vietnam pledge to strengthen political and economic ties

The leaders of China and Vietnam have pledged to further their economic ties and gave a nod to their shared communist ideology during the first visit by Vietnam’s new president to Beijing.

 

Craft unfurls China’s flag on the far side of the moon and lifts off with lunar rocks to bring home

China says its spacecraft unfurled the country’s red and gold flag on the far side of the moon before lifting off with rock and soil samples to bring back to Earth.

 

Xi pledges more Gaza aid and talks trade at summit with Arab leaders

Chinese President Xi Jinping is calling for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state and promising more humanitarian aid for people in Gaza.

 

Putin concludes a trip to China by emphasizing its strategic and personal ties to Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin is concluding a two-day visit to China by emphasizing the countries’ strategic ties as well as his own personal relationship with Chinese leader Xi Jinping as they seek to present an alternative to U.S. global influence.

 

China and Russia reaffirm their close ties as Moscow presses its offensive in Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping reaffirmed their “no-limits” partnership that has deepened as both countries face rising tensions with the West.

 

What a new president in Taiwan means for the island, China, the US and the world

Taiwan’s incoming president is promising continuity. The question is what that will bring, not only for Taiwan but also for China, the United States and others with an interest in the island of 23 million people that supplies many of the world’s advanced semiconductors.

 

War of words after Taiwan election highlights the intractable divide over the island’s fate

A war of words has erupted the day after Taiwan’s presidential election. Taiwan accused China of making “fallacious comments” and China criticized the U.S. for congratulating the winner.

 

Former Premier Li Keqiang, China’s top economic official for a decade, dies at 68

Former Premier Li Keqiang, China’s top economic official for a decade, has died of a heart attack at 68. State media CCTV said he died Friday in Shanghai.

 

In China, Lula seeks help to build back Brazilian industry

The trip by Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to Beijing has made clear he is counting on China to help reinvigorate the South American nation’s ailing industrial sector.

 

China’s Xi meeting Putin in boost for isolated Russia leader

Chinese leader Xi Jinping is due to meet Vladimir Putin in Moscow in a political boost for the isolated Russian president after the International Criminal Court charged him with war crimes in Ukraine.

 

Hong Kong pulls visa for man behind gene-edited babies claim

Hong Kong has revoked a visa it granted to a Chinese scientist who set off an ethical debate five years ago with claims that he made the world’s first genetically edited babies.

 

China accuses US of indiscriminate use of force over balloon

China has accused the United States of indiscriminate use of force in shooting down a suspected Chinese spy balloon, saying it seriously damaged both sides’ efforts to stabilize Sino-U.S. relations.

 

China rings in Year of Rabbit with most COVID rules lifted

People across China are ringing in the Lunar New Year with large family gatherings and crowds visiting temples after the government lifted its strict “zero-COVID” policy.

 

As climate warms, a China planner advocates “sponge cities”

China is affected by both extreme floods and water shortages, exacerbated by climate change. Landscape architect Yu Kongjian works to counter a concrete-based infrastructure that he says works against nature – trapping water within the city during floods, siphoning it away during droughts.

 

As leaders meet, Chinese hope for end to ‘zero-COVID’ limits

China is doubling down on its at times draconian “zero-COVID” policies, even as the population may have wished for a hint at the Communist Party’s congress that the rules would be eased.

 

Shanghai’s landmark park revived as COVID restrictions ease

Shanghai’s landmark old city garden has sprung back to life as residents took advantage of the renewed sense of freedom following the easing of 2-month-old COVID-19 restrictions.

 

Shanghai starts coming back to life as COVID lockdown eases

Traffic, pedestrians and joggers have reappeared on the streets of Shanghai as China’s largest city begins returning to normalcy amid the easing of a strict two-month COVID-19 lockdown that has drawn protests over its heavy-handed implementation.

 

Shanghai moves toward ending 2-month COVID-19 lockdown

Shanghai authorities say they will take major steps Wednesday toward reopening China’s largest city after a two-month COVID-19 lockdown that has throttled the national economy and largely confined millions of people to their homes.

 

Shanghai lockdown: Residents demand release, and some get it

Residents in China’s largest city of Shanghai have become bolder in demanding the lifting or easing of coronavirus restrictions that have left millions locked up in their compounds for almost two months.

 

China’s ‘zero-COVID’ restrictions curb May 1 holiday travel

Many Chinese are marking a quiet May Day holiday this year as the government’s “zero-COVID” approach restricts travel and enforces lockdowns in multiple cities.

 

Most of Beijing to be tested for COVID amid lockdown worry

Beijing will test most of the city’s 21 million people as a new COVID-19 outbreak sparks worries among residents of a Shanghai-style lockdown.

 

BEIJING SNAPSHOT: Reporting, inside and outside the bubble

Journalists who spent weeks of reporting on the Beijing Olympics while hermetically sealed inside the “closed-loop” system will leave with an incomplete picture of what reporting in China entails.

 

‘Wuhan, I Am Here': Film follows volunteers in sealed city

The homeless, the sick, the elderly: For people who fell through the cracks of the official system, the then-unprecedented decision to isolate the central Chinese city of Wuhan and its 13 million people was a matter of life or death.

 

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