As China celebrates the lunar new year, the year of the horse has taken on an uncanny association with Draco Malfoy of the Harry Potter series.

Social media users are “becoming Chinese” just in time for the Lunar New Year. But what’s behind the trend, and will it last?

BEIJING – As 2026 began, a curious expression became a widely shared internet catchphrase in China — aini laoji, literally, “love you, my old self,” or more accurately, “love you, my dear self”.

Cryptocurrency money laundering has expanded dramatically over the past five years, with Chinese-language networks emerging as a central pillar of the global underground economy, according to new ...

The viral meme isn’t really about China or actual Chinese people. It's a symbol of what Americans believe their own country has lost. It’s hard to quantify a zeitgeist, but here at WIRED, chronically ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. There has been a fresh wave of balloon sightings across several ...

Members of Aerostar, an aerospace and defense company, conduct a high-altitude balloon launch from the Malemute Drop Zone during exercise ARCTIC EDGE 2025 (AE25) at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, ...

On Tuesday, people in Southcentral Alaska may have noticed an unusual sight in the sky: a large white and silver balloon, carrying an unidentified payload. It wasn’t a repeat of 2023, when an unmanned ...

French fighter jets shot down high-altitude balloons with air-to-air missiles in a recent test. France warned that the battle for near-space is heating up and pointed to China's spy balloon over the ...

Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu said on X that the “test launches pushed the technological constraints imposed on the aircraft, its pilot, and its weaponry beyond 20 kilometers of altitude.” ...

Have you heard of GD Culture Group? Most likely not, since the Chinese e-commerce firm focusing on TikTok has just eight employees and earned zero revenue last year ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States on Saturday downed a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the Carolina coast after it traversed sensitive military sites across North America and became the latest ...