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A Xpeng P7 electric car is on display during the 18th Guangzhou International Automobile Exhibition at China Import and Export Fair Complex on November 20, 2020 in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province of China.VCG | Visual China Group | Getty…

China's central bank said Monday it had urged several payment firms and banks to crack down on cryptocurrency speculation, adding to calls from Beijing for restrictions on bitcoin and other digital currencies.The People's Bank of China said…

A bitcoin mine near Kongyuxiang, Sichuan, China on August 12, 2016.Paul Ratje | The Washington Post | Getty ImagesBitcoin sank Monday on reports that China has intensified its crackdown on cryptocurrency mining.The world's largest digital…

Three Chinese astronauts docked with the country’s still-under-construction space station on Thursday, beginning what their government expects will be a decade or more of continuous presence by Chinese astronauts in Earth’s orbit.Six hours…

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Another Chinese robotic mission landed on the moon in December, collecting lunar rocks from the surface and bringing them back to Earth weeks later. This made China only the third nation after the USA and the Soviet Union to complete such…

Luna 27 and Chang'e-6, for example, are said to drill into the surface and bring samples back to Earth - an accomplishment that China did three times a year with Chang'e-5 last December and the Soviet Union with Luna landers three times a…

Sea containers from China and other Asian countries will be unloaded at the Port of Los Angeles on September 14, 2019 in Long Beach, California, as the trade war between China and the United States continues.Mark Ralston | AFP | Getty…

The police in the Chinese region of Xinjiang are still buying hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of American DNA equipment despite warnings from the U.S. government that the sale of such technologies could be used to enable human…

An Ant Group logo is pictured at the company's headquarters, a subsidiary of Alibaba, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China on October 29, 2020.Aly song | ReutersGUANGZHOU, China - China has approved Ant Group to operate a consumer finance…