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Workers transport soil containing rare earth elements for export at a port in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China October 31, 2010. Photo: REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo
China

Global alarms rise as China's critical mineral export curbs take hold

German automakers became the latest to warn that China's export restrictions threaten to shut down production and rattle their local economies, following a similar complaint from an Indian EV...

Zheng Yanxiong, director of China's Hong Kong Liaison Office, speaks during the National Security Education Day opening ceremony in Hong Kong, China April 15, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Lam Yik/File Photo
China

Hong Kong leader says sudden removal of China's top official in the city was 'normal'

An employee measures a newly manufactured ball mill machine at a factory in Nantong, Jiangsu province, China June 28, 2019. Picture taken through a ball mill machine June 28, 2019. Photo: REUTERS/Stringer/ File Photo
China

China's factory activity cools in May as US tariffs hit

Finance Adviser Salehuddin Ahmed and China's Commerce Minister Wang Wentao sign an MoU at a meeting of Bangladesh-China Joint Commission on Sunday, 1 June 2025. Photo: Courtesy
Bangladesh

15th meeting of Bangladesh-China Joint Commission held

Components made at a factory are pictured in Higashiosaka, Japan June 23, 2022. Photo: REUTERS/Sakura Murakami/File Photo
China

Asia's factory activity shrinks in May as US tariffs bite

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks at the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue security summit in Singapore, May 31, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Edgar Su
China

China accuses US's Hegseth of 'vilifying' remarks at security forum

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, center, attends the signing ceremony of “the Convention on the Establishment of the International Organization for Mediation”, in Hong Kong. Photo: AP/Jonathan Lee via UNB
China

China forms new global mediation group with dozens of countries

The interior of a Pony.ai Robotaxi is pictured at the booth of the Chinese autonomous driving startup, during a media day for the Auto Shanghai show in Shanghai, China April 24, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Go Nakamura/File Photo
China

Chinese robotaxi makers head to a welcoming Gulf as overseas ambitions grow

A Long March-3B Y110 rocket carrying Tianwen-2 probe takes off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province, China May 29, 2025. Photo: China Daily via REUTERS
China

China successfully launches new satellite into space

A Long March-3B Y110 rocket carrying Tianwen-2 probe takes off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province, China May 29, 2025. Photo: China Daily via REUTERS
China

China launches mission to retrieve asteroid samples

Chinese H-6 bombers are parked on the tarmac of an airfield on Woody Island, in the disputed Paracel archipelago, which is known in China as Xisha Islands, South China Sea, May 19, 2025. Photo: MAXAR TECHNOLOGIES/Handout via REUTERS
China

China's most advanced bombers seen on disputed South China Sea island

A central processing unit (CPU) semiconductor chip is displayed among flags of China and U.S., in this illustration picture taken February 17, 2023. Photo:REUTERS/Florence Lo/Illustration/File Photo
USA

US curbs chip design software, chemicals, other shipments to China

A view of the site of the chemical plant explosion in Gaomi, Shandong province, China May 28, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Go Nakamura
China

Residents pick up the pieces one day after deadly China chemical blast