Sidewalk construction in Tianjin. Last year thousands of residents were evacuated from apartments in the city after nearby streets split apart.

The former headquarters of ByteDance, the parent company of the video sharing app TikTok, in Beijing.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany with Xi Jinping, China’s leader, in Beijing on Tuesday.

Chinese runner He Jie, Ethiopian Dejene Hailu Bikila and Kenyans Robert Keter and Willy Mnangat taking part in a half-marathon in Beijing on Sunday.

A clothing store in Shenzhen. Retail sales in China have picked up.

Tesla reported a decline in sales this month that caught investors off guard.

With the latest escalation of tensions between Iran and Israel, President Biden’s political opponents are now blaming the administration for having not taken a tougher line in recent years against Iran.

Daniel J. Kritenbrink, the assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, will travel to China on Sunday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, in 2016 at a BRICS meeting in Goa, India.

President Biden with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the Philippines and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan at the White House on Thursday.

President Biden with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the Philippines and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan at the White House on Thursday. “I want to be clear, the United States defense commitments to Japan and to the Philippines are ironclad,” Mr. Biden said.

Reporters outside the entrance to the Hong Kong court where Jimmy Lai began standing trial last year.

Since President Xi Jinping’s rise to power, China has stepped up efforts to sway elections in Canada and other countries, according to intelligence officials, academics and members of the diaspora.

Han Dong’s testimony was part of an ongoing federal inquiry into foreign meddling in Canada’s political system, especially the general elections of 2019 and 2021.

Lin Qi spent millions to buy the rights to a Chinese science-fiction novel called “The Three-Body Problem” but was murdered before it launched as a television series.

Ma Ying-jeou, who was Taiwan’s president from 2008 to 2016, favors closer ties with China.

Journalists gathering at a court in Hong Kong to cover the trial of Jimmy Lai, the founder of Apple Daily, a pro-democracy newspaper.

Joseph Wu, the foreign minister of Taiwan, said that if the United States abandoned Ukraine, China would “take it as a hint” that sustained action against Taiwan will cause the United States and its allies to back off.

In this long exposure, a string of SpaceX Starlink satellites passed over an old stone house in 2021 near Florence, Kan.

Elon Musk, Tesla’s chief executive, dancing onstage during a delivery event for Tesla’s China-made Model 3 cars in Shanghai in 2020.

Elon Musk dancing in 2020 as his company, Tesla, unveiled the first cars made at its factory in Shanghai.

The site where a container ship hit a bridge in Guangzhou, China, in February.

President Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in Tel Aviv in October.

An installation of the Chinese Communist Party flag, at the Museum of the Communist Party of China in Beijing in 2022.

Palestinians inspected the damage to a building after a strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza on Monday.

Oliver Dowden, Britain’s deputy prime minister, in London earlier this month. He was expected to address Parliament on Monday.

Anti-tank fortifications line a beach on the Taiwanese island of Kinmen, several miles off China’s coast. Tensions with China have risen in recent months.

Russia, China and Algeria voted against the U.S. resolution, and Guyana abstained, at the U.N. Security Council meeting in New York on Friday.

The World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai in July 2023. China has invested heavily in A.I. education.

A protest against the extradition law in Hong Kong in June 2019.

Hong Kong’s skyline. The government has focused on security in an effort to revive the city.

Lawmakers in Hong Kong passed sweeping new security laws on Tuesday.

Pro-democracy activists at a candlelight vigil at a downtown Hong Kong park in 2003. Public pressure that year forced city leaders to back down on a package of security laws known as Article 23 legislation.

Di Sanh Duong in December at his office in Melbourne, Australia.

Di Sanh Duong at his warehouse in December in Melbourne, Australia.

St. Petersburg this month. Russia is taking a systemic approach to change the way its domestic internet functions, according to civil society groups, researchers and companies that have been affected.

If the TikTok bill were to become law, it would likely deepen a cold war between the United States and China over the control of important technologies.

Xi Jinping, China’s leader, at a session of the National People’s Congress in Beijing on Friday.

Hong Kong officials are scrambling to pass a law that has long been pushed by officials in the Chinese Communist Party.

Supporters of Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig in Vancouver in 2019.

A Chinese citizen accused of stealing A.I. technology was arrested at his home near Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., on Wednesday.

The National People’s Congress, the most important spectacle on China’s political calendar, opened on Tuesday.

Malé, the capital and most populous city of the Maldives.

China’s leader, Xi Jinping, left, and Premier Li Qiang at a meeting in Beijing on Monday.

Shuang Xuetao, one of China’s most celebrated young authors, is best known for his short stories chronicling the economic decline of his hometown, Shenyang, in the country’s northeast.

The couple were escorted from their labs at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 2019 and later stripped of their security clearances. They were fired in January 2021.

The assembly line at a production facility for Nio, a maker of electric cars, in Hefei, China.

China has fortified its national security and data sharing laws, while waging an all-of-society campaign against espionage.

Zong Qinghou, the president of the Chinese food and beverage company Wahaha, in 2013 at a news conference in Beijing.