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Congress Spotlights Forced Labor Concerns With Chinese Shopping Sites Shein and Temu

Lawmakers are flagging what they say are likely significant violations of U.S. law by Temu, a popular Chinese shopping platform, accusing it of providing an unchecked channel that allows goods […]




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China’s Economic Rebound Hits a Wall, With ‘No Quick Fix’ to Revive It

When China suddenly dismantled its lockdowns and other Covid precautions last December, officials in Beijing and many investors expected the economy to spring back to life.It has not worked out […]







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The Elusive Fix for China’s Budget Crisis

Across China, many local governments are on the brink of insolvency. Some cities have reduced pay for civil servants. Cuts to municipal health insurance have triggered street protests.Central government bailouts […]




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Capvision, a Consulting Firm, is Raided by Chinese Authorities

For weeks, little was known about why prominent international consulting firms in China were being raided by the police. Employees had been questioned and even detained for doing what has […]




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Even as China Reopens, Security Visits Spook Foreign Businesses

With China’s pandemic restrictions dismantled and its leaders wooing executives flying into the country again, this was supposed to be a springtime of renewed investor confidence in the world’s second-biggest […]







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China Says Chatbots Must Toe the Party Line

Five months after ChatGPT set off an investment frenzy over artificial intelligence, Beijing is moving to rein in China’s chatbots, a show of the government’s resolve to keep tight regulatory […]




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Chinese Officials Flock to Twitter to Defend TikTok

When members of Congress grilled TikTok’s chief executive last month on Capitol Hill, the app’s supporters sprang to its defense online.The lawmakers were “old, tech-illiterate,” one said. “Out of touch, […]




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China’s Rise Relied on the West. Xi Jinping Is Turning Away.

In late 1978, China’s paramount leader, Deng Xiaoping, set in motion two major policy shifts that would change China and the world order in the decades to come. At a […]