Not all plants can be stored in a seed bank. Cryopreservation offers an alternative, but critics question whether this form of conservation will work.

A surprise breakthrough in US-China trade tensions has unleashed a flurry of activity across Chinese factories and ports as companies in both countries rush to make the most of a 90-day rollback ...

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan.

China has been installing renewable energy at a spectacular rate and now has more renewable capacity than the next 13 countries combined, and four times that of its closest competitor, the US.

For the first time, the growth in China’s clean power generation has caused the nation’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to fall despite rapid power demand growth. The new analysis for Carbon Brief ...

At the time, one could make the argument that China’s economic modernization was being accompanied by a parallel, if somewhat more laggardly, political reform. But the advent in 2012 of Xi ...

Beijing’s moderate relaxation of export controls on some rare earths – raw materials essential in hi-tech and aerospace hardware – as part of a trade truce with the US reflects China’s ...

China was likely watching the recent military clashes between Pakistan and India closely. China has provided Pakistan with weaponry, which it could see in action, military analysts said. This ...

The tit-for-tat tariff escalation that had resulted in 145 percent levies on Chinese goods entering the U.S. and 125 percent levies on U.S. goods entering China has been reduced to 30 percent and ...

But it won’t back down from its territorial claims, experts predict. By Chris Buckley Even as the United States and China take steps to rein in their trade war, Beijing is preparing for broader ...

SHANGHAI, May 14 (Reuters) - German healthcare and materials group Merck KGaA (MRCG.DE), opens new tab has dropped a surcharge on life sciences sector orders within China following the U.S.-China ...

Quite often, the answer is China. China ranks as America’s third-largest source of imported goods in 2025, according to Census data, with $103 billion in imports through March. In all of 2024 ...