China’s surplus reached $1.19 trillion last year, a 20 percent increase from 2024, as Beijing kept the currency weak and pursued self-reliance to replace imports.

One of China’s most popular short-video and streaming platforms was flooded with porn and violent content earlier this week, sparking outrage and bafflement in a nation where the internet is tightly controlled. Kuaishou, a major rival of TikTok’s ...

In the final weeks of 2025, rain became the new normal across China's dry north -- so frequent, and at times so violent, that it was rewriting local records and stretching the very notion of a "flood season."