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China Arrests U.S. Scholar on Spying Charge
Chinese security officers have arrested an American citizen who studies politics in Myanmar, an authoritarian nation on China’s southwest border, and accused him of endangering national security, according to people with knowledge of the arrest. The U.S. citizen, U Min Zin, was arrested in early June, the people said on the condition of anonymity because of sensitive diplomacy surrounding the previously unreported arrest. He disappeared on June 3 while in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province, which borders Myanmar. American diplomats visited him on Friday. A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman…
Google Sues to Stop Chinese Cybercrime Group from Using Its A.I.
Google sued a Chinese cybercrime network on Friday, accusing it of using the company’s artificial intelligence to blast online financial scams to hundreds of thousands of Americans. The internet giant also said it was coordinating for the first time with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and wireless providers such as AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon to shut down the network, known as Outsider Enterprise. The Chinese group used Gemini, Google’s A.I. system, to create hundreds of fake websites mimicking companies like Google and YouTube and government operations like the Postal Service…
Why It’s Nearly Impossible to Build a Robot Without China
Japan led the world in robotics for decades. More than 50 years ago, Japanese researchers captured imaginations with the first robot capable of grasping objects and walking on two legs. In 1984, a team in Japan built one that could read sheet music and play the piano. When Honda unveiled its first humanoid in 2000, it seemed to cement the country’s lead. But now, just as tech investors, start-up founders and government officials around the world are betting that artificial intelligence will spur growth for robots, that lead no longer…
Top Pentagon Official Worked Closely With C.I.A. Officer Later Found With Gold Bars
David J. Rush, the former C.I.A. officer found last month with $40 million in gold bars in his home and now under F.B.I. investigation, had powerful friends in government. It turns out that one of them, Stephen A. Feinberg, the deputy secretary of defense, even contacted the C.I.A. earlier this year asking to work more closely with him. Before the C.I.A. fired Mr. Rush, he and Mr. Feinberg worked together on a highly classified program focused on spying on China, according to the current and former officials. Mr. Feinberg reached…
Trump’s Sharp Turn on China: Embracing It as a Peer Power
After meeting with China’s top diplomat in Malaysia last summer, Secretary of State Marco Rubio uttered a line that made few waves at the time but would later help pave the way for an abrupt change. The United States and China, Mr. Rubio said, had an “opportunity here to achieve some strategic stability” and find areas of cooperation. He used the phrase again in February while talking about China in the Caribbean, also to little notice. Chinese officials picked up on Mr. Rubio’s remarks and suggested to their U.S. counterparts…
The Ex-Mayor of Arcadia, Her Boyfriend and the Chinese Government
On the day she was sworn in as mayor, Eileen Wang spoke in soaring terms about her journey from a “small mountain village” in China to America, and specifically to Arcadia, a small city in Southern California. Then her speech took a sharp turn. “As Americans, and especially as elected officials, our loyalty must always be clear,” she said, “to this country, to our constitution, to our residents, and to no one else.” Three months later, in May, federal prosecutors announced that Ms. Wang, 56, had agreed to plead guilty…
Behind the Pageantry in Pyongyang With Xi and Kim
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Xi Jinping Makes Rare Trip to North Korea to Court Kim Jong-Un
new video loaded: Xi Jinping Makes Rare Trip to North Korea to Court Kim Jong-Un <img src="https://www.chinastrategy.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/xi-jinping-makes-rare-trip-to-north-korea-to-court-kim-jong-un.jpg" data-testid="betamax-poster" sizes="(width < 1024px) 100vw, (width North Korean and Chinese state media footage showed China’s leader, Xi Jinping, arriving in Pyongyang, North Korea, for a summit with his counterpart, Kim Jong-un. The visit aimed to strengthen ties between the two nations. By Jiwoong Hong June 9, 2026 NYT
Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un vow stronger ties as North Korea visit wraps up
On Tuesday, both leaders paid a visit to the Friendship Tower, which commemorates Chinese soldiers who fought in the Korean war. They also dropped by Pyongyang’s top cadre school, where they planted a fir tree symbolising their evergreen friendship, Xinhua reported. BBC