A vendor is seen in her store at a supermarket in downtown Beijing on May 23, 2019. Jason Lee/Reuters Reports from several parts of China indicate that tax authorities are restoring tax registrations and reviewing the financial records of businesses that have already shut down as regime authorities intensify efforts to collect taxes amid mounting … Read more
A meat stall at a market in Nantong city, Jiangsu Province, China, on Sept. 10, 2018. STR/AFP via Getty Images A Shanghai farmers’ market has ordered meat vendors to secure their knives with metal chains, a measure that has drawn comparisons to the stringent knife-control measures long imposed in the China-occupied Xinjiang region, also known … Read more
President Donald Trump speaks during the 2026 Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas on Sept. 9, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times President Donald Trump suggested on Sept. 11 that he would consider allowing Chinese automakers to build cars in the United States. In an interview with Fox News, Trump dismissed the possibility of allowing imports of … Read more
Chinese state actors were using Claude to surveil dissident and religious communities, including practitioners of the faith group Falun Gong and NTD, The Epoch Times’ sister media outlet, tech company Anthropic said in a report. The Chinese state-aligned actors targeted groups that Beijing has historically suppressed, using its artificial intelligence (AI) model to build dossiers … Read more
China’s textile and apparel industry is showing signs of further contraction, with about 1,500 companies estimated to have dropped out of the regime’s official industrial-enterprise statistics during the first half of this year. Data cited by the Hong Kong General Chamber of Textiles show that the number of textile companies classified as “above-scale” fell by … Read more
China’s exports surged 25 percent in August, pushing its trade surplus above $800 billion in the first eight months of the year as weak domestic demand leaves Beijing increasingly reliant on overseas markets to absorb excess industrial capacity. The widening imbalance is drawing growing scrutiny from the United States, Europe, and other major economies, raising … Read more
Beijing is investing heavily in domestic chipmakers amid tightening U.S. chip controls, but experts warn the initiative risks isolating China’s tech sector rather than closing the gap with the United States. Chinese companies remain constrained by weaknesses in advanced manufacturing, semiconductor equipment, and software ecosystems, according to some industry insiders who spoke to The Epoch … Read more
Firefighters’ vehicles park near a cargo ship after it caught fire at a port in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China, on Sept. 10, 2026. Li Aoqiu/Xinhua via AP Twenty-five people have been killed after a foreign-flagged cargo ship docked at a Chinese port for repairs caught fire, according to state media outlets. There were 42 people … Read more
China is officially promoting AI-powered “one-person companies” as a way to support entrepreneurship, but the policy is drawing skepticism as most such businesses struggle to survive and consumer demand remains weak. The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Sept. 4 included one-person companies (OPCs) in a national entrepreneurship support program … Read more
China’s economic slowdown is increasingly squeezing incomes even in the country’s traditionally prosperous Yangtze Delta, with workers in the region reporting sharp pay cuts, layoffs, and dwindling job opportunities. Interviews with workers and jobseekers in the region indicate that declining business activities have eroded wages across manufacturing, services, and state-owned sectors. Some workers report that … Read more