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“Just because certain terms have been used in the past doesn’t make it appropriate now. We know that language evolves,” an expert said.

China called the U.S. arrogant and selfish on Friday after two Chinese citizens were charged with stealing trade secrets and other sensitive information from American government agencies and corporations. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying accused the U.S. of undermining other countries’ development in order to defend its own hegemony. “The U.S. is a world superpower, and it’s quite arrogant and...

The U.S. Justice Department has charged Zhu Hua and Zhang Shillong of China with hacking computer servers in the U.S. on behalf of the country’s main intelligence agency.

The trade war that erupted Friday between the U.S. and China carries a major risk of escalation that could weaken investment, depress spending, unsettle financial markets and slow the global economy....
The opening shots were fired just after midnight, when the Trump administration imposed a 25 percent tariff on $34 billion of imports from China, and Beijing promptly retaliated with duties...

The United States and China launched what Beijing called the “biggest trade war in economic history” Friday, imposing tariffs on billions of dollars of each other’s goods amid a spiraling dispute over technology. The Trump administration is confronting China over development tactics it says include stealing technology or pressuring foreign companies to hand it over. American officials worry U.S. industrial...

Generations of red-state farmers have braced for the impact of President Donald Trump’s trade war, knowing Chinese tariffs aimed at the U.S. heartland could destroy their livelihood, NBC News reported. “For some family farms, one season could be the death of them,” said Matt Thiede, chief operating officer of Michigan produce packing company Heeren brothers. “You will see a serious...

Join us Sunday, April 15 at 7 p.m. for a new episode of “Bay Area Revelations Asian American Pioneers.” They were excluded, imprisoned and murdered. How the people of Asia helped shape today’s Bay Area.

Ed Lee was the first Asian American to be elected mayor of San Francisco. Asian Americans in the Bay Area reflect on Lee’s legacy.

China’s steel mills, a target of U.S. President Donald Trump’s ire, are their industry’s 800-pound gorilla: They supply half of world output, so every move they make has a global impact. The steel industry swelled over the past decade to support a history-making Chinese construction boom. Once that tailed off, the country was left with a glut of half-idle, money-losing...

President Donald Trump announced tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum to address what he says is an “assault on our country.”

P.F. Chang’s China Bistro released a list of 33 restaurants Monday where a security breach involving stolen data from certain credit and debit cards used at those locations was compromised, including eight stores in California – one in the Bay Area.