Suspected Chinese spy bases in Cuba are growing, including one near a US naval base: report

Tech Insider
Cuban border guards standing in a watch tower at the border between Cuba and the US in Caimanera, Cuba
Cuban border guards in a watch tower at the border between Cuba and the US in Caimanera, Cuba, in 2018.

Sven Creutzmann/Mambo Photo via Getty Images

Apple finally gets some good news in China as iPhone shipments surge

Tech Insider
Apple store Shanghai
An Apple store in Shanghai.

NurPhoto/Getty Images

A Chinese firm's answer to SpaceX's Falcon 9 blew up in a giant fireball after it accidentally launched during a test

Tech Insider
A Long March-4C rocket carrying the satellite Shiyan-23 blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, May 12, 2024.
A Long March-4C rocket carrying the satellite Shiyan-23 blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, May 12, 2024.

Putin getting tight with Kim Jong Un could be as big of a problem for China as it is for the US

Tech Insider
Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un smiling and holding up glasses of red wine.
In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un toast during a reception at the Mongnangwan Reception House in Pyongyang on June 19, 2024.

VLADIMIR SMIRNOV via Getty Images

Warren Buffett once went to China with Bill Gates — and lived on burgers, fries, and Cherry Coke

Tech Insider
Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett skipped local cuisine in favor of fast food during his China trip in 1995.

REUTERS/Rick Wilking

A prominent think tank says China could take control of Taiwan without even launching an invasion — here's how

Tech Insider
A screen grab captured from a video shows the Chinese People's Liberation Army's Eastern Theater Command launching large-scale joint military exercises around Taiwan with naval vessels and military aircraft in China on May 24, 2024.
Chinese military exercises off Taiwan.

Gui Xinhua/PLA/China Military/Anadolu via Getty Images

China and Russia are in a bad marriage that the West shouldn't try to break up

Tech Insider
China and Russia's partnership is littered with potential issues that limit its potency and staying power.
China and Russia's partnership is littered with potential issues that limit its potency and staying power.

Ju Peng/Getty Images

The Chinese internet is having a field day over Biden's bad debate performance

Tech Insider : Politics
US President Joe Biden greets Chinese President Xi Jinping before a meeting during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' week in Woodside, California on November 15, 2023.
US President Joe Biden greets Chinese President Xi Jinping before a meeting during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' week in Woodside, California on November 15, 2023.

BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images

China says it picked up a submarine detector dropped by a US Navy aircraft in the South China Sea

Tech Insider
P-8A Poseidon dropping a device replicating a Mk-54 torpedo
The aircraft in the video released by Chinese state media looked like a US Navy P-8A Poseidon, and it was dropping what looked like a sonobuoy, which is a kind of acoustic sensor used to track submarines.

US Navy/Greg L. Davis

Here's what the economy could look like with a Biden or Trump presidency

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics, Economy
President Biden and Donald Trump on a blue background
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have different plans for how they'd tackle the US economy if they win the November election.

Anna Moneymaker/Getty, Anna Moneymaker/Getty, Tyler Le/BI

Subscribe to China