Sept. 3, 2026, 8:29 p.m. ET The Chinese government has asked the United States to investigate the death of a 51-year-old Chinese national who died hours after being booked into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in the U.S. territory of Saipan, according to news reports. Lianyong Wei, who had been arrested on several charges…
Updated Aug. 31, 2026, 2:50 p.m. ET WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said American communities should accept data centers unless they want to be “backwards and poor” and warned “China could not be happier” as the massive facilities that power artificial intelligence face a bipartisan backlash across the country. Trump, who has stood firmly behind…
Updated Aug. 28, 2026, 8:42 a.m. ET NUWAKOT, Nepal ― Nepal and China resumed rescue operations that had been suspended briefly in the flood-hit Himalayas on Friday after risks from an overflowing lake were found to be manageable, easing fears of fresh devastation. Wednesday’s catastrophic flood caused by a glacier collapse killed 547 people in…
Aug. 25, 2026, 3:54 p.m. ET Lincoln, Ford Motor Co.’s luxury brand, will bring back the Corsair crossover for the 2027 model year by importing the hybrid model from China into the United States, the company said Tuesday. The announcement comes after the brand earlier this month said it was phasing out Chinese production for…
Aug. 13, 2026, 9:05 a.m. ET Ford Motor Co. said it’ll end production of Lincoln vehicles in China for the U.S. market as a part of plans to grow the manufacturing of the luxury brand here starting in 2030. Lincoln has built the Nautilus SUV in China since 2024 when it moved production to its…
July 26, 2026, 11:46 p.m. ET The ads were reportedly delivered by GatherOne, one of Meta’s advertising partners based in China. Meta states it does not allow non-consensual intimate imagery or nudify apps and takes aggressive steps to combat them. Following inquiries, GatherOne suspended new ad accounts for these services and Meta banned several of…
July 22, 2026, 1:34 p.m. ET The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee approved legislation on Wednesday to toughen a U.S. government ban on Chinese automakers entering the American market that could bar German automaker Mercedes-Benz from selling vehicles in the United States. Senator Ted Cruz, the committee chair and a Texas Republican, warned the bill’s provision that would…
July 21, 2026, 3:04 p.m. ET WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on July 21 downplayed China’s meddling in United States elections ‒ suggesting the U.S. does similar things to them ‒ just five days after he accused Beijing of executing “the largest compromise of election data in history” in a primetime address to the nation….
July 17, 2026, 6:14 p.m. ET WASHINGTON – Among President Donald Trump’s many assertions about election insecurity in his July 16 nationwide address, perhaps none was more alarming than his accusation that China carried out the “largest compromise of election data in history” through its “illicit acquisition of 220 million U.S. voter files.” Not true,…
Updated July 17, 2026, 8:58 a.m. MT In a Thursday night address to the nation, President Donald Trump claimed China had meddled in U.S. elections. During the July 16 primetime address, Trump alleged that newly declassified documents would reveal Chinese efforts to interfere in multiple U.S. elections, including the 2020 election, when he lost to…