Crossing the nine-dash line

Vietnam has banned the release of the Warner Bros feature film “Barbie” because its trailer includes a crude cartoon map that Vietnamese netizens believed depicted China’s “nine-dash line” territorial claims in the emotive South China Sea maritime terr…

Chinese hackers breached US email servers for a month

A breach of Microsoft-hosted U.S. government email servers by a Chinese hacking group was detected and fixed “fairly rapidly,” National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on Wednesday, despite Microsoft saying that the breach was only discovered after…

Communist Party takes direct charge of the running of Hong Kong

The ruling Chinese Communist Party has taken over responsibility for running the day-to-day affairs of Hong Kong from China’s cabinet, the State Council, in a move commentators said is likely linked to a recent bid to pursue the city’s democracy activi…