Australia’s spy chief says hackers linked to the Chinese government and military are targeting the country’s critical infrastructure, warning the country was increasingly at risk of “high-impact sabotage”. Mike Burgess, head of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (Asio), said “unprecedented levels of espionage” meant a growing threat of “cyber-enabled sabotage” in the next five years….
Police seized 61,000 Bitcoin from Zhimin Qian, 47, as part of a years-long money laundering investigation. The United Kingdom has sentenced a Chinese woman to 11 years and eight months in prison for a years-long scheme to launder investment scam proceeds into Bitcoin, luxury property, and other assets now worth about 4.8 billion British pounds…
BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s President Xi Jinping met with Spain’s King Felipe VI on Wednesday in Beijing, state broadcaster CCTV reported. This marks the first state visit to China by a Spanish monarch in 18 years. (Reporting by Joe Cash; Editing by Himani Sarkar) Copyright 2025 Thomson Reuters. Source link
Laura Murphy is a professor of human rights and contemporary slavery at Sheffield Hallam University. She investigates how the Chinese government exploits the country’s Uyghur community to mine rare minerals and make consumer goods for the west, something the Chinese state denies. Murphy describes to Helen Pidd how in 2024, strange things began to happen….
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A massive bridge at a hydropower station in southwest China collapsed Tuesday, sending concrete and steel plunging into a river just months after it opened, according to Chinese state media. Reuters reported that an official from Barkam County confirmed the collapse to the Chinese state-run Global Times,…
A newly opened bridge in China’s southwestern province of Sichuan has partially collapsed, creating a huge dust plume. Authorities had closed the 758m (2,486ft) long Hongqi bridge on Monday after cracks appeared on nearby slopes and roads. On Tuesday afternoon conditions on the mountainside worsened, triggering landslides that led to the collapse of part of…
In recent weeks China has released a series of statements, articles and photos, that analysts say signal an escalation in the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s approach to Taiwan. Beijing claims Taiwan as a province and has vowed to annex it under what it terms “reunification”. China’s military is not believed to be capable of a…
Video has emerged on social media of a newly opened bridge partially collapsing in China’s south-west along a national highway. The 758-metre Hongqi bridge was closed on Monday afternoon after cracks appeared on nearby slopes and roads, and shifts were seen in the terrain of the mountain, the local government told Reuters. On Tuesday afternoon,…
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EPA/Shutterstock Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi suggested that Japan could respond with its self-defence force if China attacked Taiwan Over the past week, China and Japan have been locked in an escalating war of words. It all started when Japan’s new Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, suggested that if China attacked Taiwan then Japan could respond…