China

Some provinces have been without power since the weekend. President Díaz-Canel assures his government is ‘working hard to reconnect the national electricity grid’

A study analyzes biosignatures in samples that would need to be brought back to Earth for confirmation, a mission Donald Trump wants to cancel

The long list of trade barriers cited by the Trump administration includes energy, agriculture and intellectual property. The US president seeks to achieve gains not only in its balance of payments, but also in the political and immigration spheres

Veteran scientists warn EL PAÍS of the dismantling of America’s scientific strength and the risk posed to democracy: ‘It could take decades to recover’

Climate change, decreased consumption, tariffs, price hikes and greater competition in new terroirs complicate the market

Scientists heading the project face an ethical dilemma in the technology’s potential human use

Chinese firms are beginning to push aside Western companies in the production of materials for the energy transition

A hot mic caught the leaders of China and Russia exchanging ideas about increasing their own longevity that science doesn’t support. They’d be better off focusing on healthy lifestyles for the years they may have ahead of them

The presence of the minor in Beijing underlines her importance as a possible successor

‘Today, humanity once again faces the choice between peace and war,’ Xi Jinping warned during an event commemorating Japan’s surrender in the Second Sino-Japanese War and the end of World War II

Chinese companies’ commitment to the South American country has accelerated, placing it as the second destination for direct investment in the first half of 2025, behind only Indonesia

A Chinese company, calling itself ‘the organ factory of the future,’ has humanized a pig through genetic engineering to enable a transplant performed on a brain-dead man

Between peaks over 6,000 meters high, sisters Karishma and Sumaira have created a tournament that is much more than just a sport: it is a window for girls of the Wakhi tribe to aspire to education, scholarships, and even the possibility of delaying early marriage

By releasing an alcohol into the air that causes neighbors’ roots to exude pesticides, they can even protect subsequent generations of crops

Beijing has hosted an international competition where companies and universities test the autonomy of their androids and fine-tune their capabilities

The president is applying the same strategy of threats and blackmail with major corporations as he did during the trade war

Pensioners from the Chinese megacity defy loneliness with a weekly meeting in the Swedish multinational’s cafeteria

While the Asian country is increasing investment in education, American institutions are facing cuts under Trump

A renowned theoretical physicist is proposing the possibility of sending tiny spacecraft to the nearest black hole to Earth to test the limits of physics. His colleagues believe the proposal is too speculative

The pulse to reconfigure the world order, sharpened by Trump’s agenda, crudely exposes the supremacy of Washington and Beijing over the rest

A neo-Mudéjar mansion, luxury cinemas, dance halls, and the remnants of a Basque pelota court in the Chinese city bear the traces of a small but pioneering community

With a last-minute raft of new tariffs on dozens of countries, the Republican carried out his challenge to the globalized trade order with levies on exports to the US that will finally go into effect on August 7

The international federation, World Aquatics, has opened the door to changing the minimum age for competition in the case of the young prodigy

A team led by Chinese scientists found that there was a natural crossing nine million years ago, in an investigation with geopolitical implications: whoever controls potatoes dominates the world

Despite its proximity to the epicenter, the Asian country successfully sent evacuation orders and warnings to alert citizens about a potential tsunami