The heart of the German economy is making and exporting the big-ticket, complex goods that make global business run: everything from cars and locomotives to factory machinery, aircraft and construction equipment.
Prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security under a Beijing-imposed law that has effectively stifled the city's once-thriving pro-democracy movement.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday that 19 of the members of the G20 agreed to address streams of "cheap exports" that cause global economic imbalances, but China dissented.
Religious freedom advocates lambasted the two-year prison term given in Seoul Monday to Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, the 83-year-old leader of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, as an assault on religious liberty.
A high-profile summit reuniting President Trump and Kim Jong-un would check a lot of boxes for Mr. Trump, who has openly pined for a Nobel Peace Prize. But don't expect any substantive breakthroughs or concessions, experts say: The North Korean leader doesn't need Mr. Trump this time around.
In an oddly coincidental development, both Pyongyang and Seoul replaced their defense ministers over the weekend.
Ohio State University will pay the federal government $2.1 million for failing to report Chinese funding for a climate scientist who was working under Beijing's Thousand Talents foreign expert recruitment program, the Justice Department announced Monday.
Leaders of Russia, China, India and Iran will meet this week in Kyrgyzstan for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, as the non-Western partners look to strengthen ties amid growing world tension.
The leaders of China, Russia and India gathered with other heads of state in Kyrgyzstan on Monday for the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a group billed as a counterweight to U.S. global influence.
President Trump appeared to dismiss U.S. national security concerns over large-scale Chinese intelligence collection, espionage and cyberattacks in a recent exchange with reporters noting similar U.S. practices.
The social media platform X said it uncovered a Chinese influence operation to turn Americans against AI development and construction of data centers.
The Marine Corps is using an Australian cargo ship to develop new tactics for coastal warfare as the service continues preparing for operations in the shallow coastal waters of the Indo-Pacific region.
The Trump administration desperately needs Western Hemisphere partners to help battle powerful drug cartels and stem the tide of Chinese influence across the Americas. It may have a new one in Keiko Fujimori, Peru's recently inaugurated president.
The Chinese military is studying the use of artificial intelligence to boost the capabilities of its hypersonic missiles in defeating U.S. missile defenses, according to an Air Force think tank report.
North Korea now reportedly has 60 to 120 nuclear warheads, with a vast arsenal of short-, medium- and long-range ballistic missiles to deliver them to South Korea, Japan and the U.S.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday announced Operation Economic Outcast, promising that new measures against Iran will result in its unprecedented economic isolation.
The State Department on Wednesday called China's construction of a new military base on a disputed South China Sea island "unacceptable" and detrimental to peace and stability.
Chinese artist Gao Zhen was sentenced to three years in prison on Tuesday for "infringing upon the reputation of heroes" over his satirical works of art, including statues of China's former leader Mao Zedong.
Adm. Daryl Caudle, chief of naval operations, says the Iran war and other conflicts in the Middle East are presenting challenges to the Navy in keeping China at bay in the Pacific.
Federal agents shut down two hacking platforms used by a China state-sponsored group to conceal cyberattacks on U.S. targets, including the Justice Department, NASA and the U.S. Senate.
