The highest-level American visit to Taiwan in decades shows the island’s importance as ties between the United States and China deteriorate.
Author: AMY QIN
U.S. Health Secretary to Visit Taiwan, in a Move Likely to Anger Beijing
The trip by Alex M. Azar II, a rare high-level U.S. visit, is being billed as an opportunity to highlight Taiwan’s success in battling the coronavirus pandemic.
Li Zhensheng, Photographer of China’s Cultural Revolution, Dies at 79
With his camera and red arm band, he captured the dark side of Mao’s revolution at great personal risk. Many of the images were stashed under a floor, going undeveloped for years.
Coronavirus Fears in China Find a New Target: Salmon
Suppliers and restaurants are scrambling after an outbreak in Beijing triggered fears that salmon may have spread it. Officials later absolved the fish of blame, but consumers are avoiding it anyway.
China Responds with Restraint to Trump’s Move to End Hong Kong’s ‘Special Status’
A foreign ministry spokesman stayed close to the Communist Party’s official position on Hong Kong, suggesting that Beijing was waiting to see the specifics of the U.S. plan.
Taiwan Court Strikes Down Law Criminalizing Adultery
The decision was hailed by rights activists who said the law had disproportionately targeted women.
Hong Kong Protests China’s Tightening Grip: An Explainer
Increasingly, the demonstrations are a direct challenge to China’s ruling Communist Party rather than to the territory’s leadership.
Coronavirus Threatens Chinese Traditions of Chopsticks and Family-Style Meals
Faced with the spread of the coronavirus, the government is promoting using serving utensils, but resistance is strong. Sharing food with personal chopsticks is one way Chinese people express intimacy.
Yu Lihua, 90, Dies; Writer Spoke to ‘Rootless’ Chinese Émigrés
In her fiction she depicted “the struggle of Chinese immigrants in American society” — not the “Oriental exoticism” preferred by many publishers in the ’60s.
Coronavirus Diary: Four Stints in Quarantine, on Two Continents
A reporter got a close-up look at how different governments handled the developing pandemic. Some were more impressive than others.