Travelers were stuck without a way to get back to their pets amid coronavirus travel restrictions. Now expats in China are chartering a flight to bring dogs and cats over to their owners.

President Trump held a news conference Tuesday about new sanctions over China's actions in Hong Kong — but incendiary comments on race overshadowed the event.

China claims sovereignty over the vast majority of the economically important body of water, and in recent years, it has built artificial islands to bolster those claims.

Border closures due to the pandemic have kept many people apart from their relatives for months. Others had to face separation from a different kind of family — their pets.

The Trump administration's penalties are meant to punish China for its treatment of Uighurs and Muslim minorities in the region, and target a Politburo member for the first time.

The U.S. is cutting back its special treatment of the territory, while the U.K. offers a pathway to British citizenship for Hong Kongers.

The State Department's new listing of Chinese media escalates a tit-for-tat scrap over journalists that kicked off earlier in the year.

Neither the U.S. nor China publicly announced the meeting in advance and it was not clear which side had proposed it.

Zoom has apologized for blocking accounts of U.S.-based Chinese activists as they were marking the Tiananmen Square anniversary. It shows the challenges U.S. tech companies face working with China.

After years of U.S. criticism about human rights, China's Communist Party has seized on protests sparked by George Floyd's death to spread propaganda about what it calls American "double standards."

Protests across the U.S. sparked by George Floyd's death have created an unlikely opportunity — for China. The scenes of violence became a propaganda gold mine for the ruling Communist Party.

After China's central government asserted more direct authority over Hong Kong, President Trump announced his intent to revoke Hong Kong's special customs status and take other steps.

President Trump announced a set of measures on Hong Kong on Friday, after China announced earlier this week that it was going to impose new national security measures in the city.

Here are some key points about what the latest moves by Beijing and Washington may mean for Hong Kong.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he has reported to Congress that Hong Kong is no longer autonomous from China — a move that may lead the U.S. to withdraw preferential trade status of the city.

Experts say the Communist Party sees more at stake than public health. One of the biggest concerns is the economy. China is also looking to defuse criticism over its early handling of the outbreak.

China is leading the global race in the development of a COVID-19 vaccine. Half of the vaccines that have already gone into clinical trials were discovered by Chinese companies.

By not inviting Taiwan to its health assembly, the World Health Organization kept out "scientific expertise on pandemic disease" and "damaged the WHO's credibility," the secretary of state said.

Taiwan has reported fewer than 500 cases of COVID-19 and six deaths, but a push to get the country invited to the World Health Organization's annual meeting is expected to fail.

North Korean media, cited by South Korea's Yonhap News Agency, said he attended a ceremony marking the completion of a fertilizer plant in a town just north of the capital, Pyongyang.