US President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the country’s Commerce Department told senators on Tuesday that she would use punitive tariffs and export restrictions against China, but stopped short of a specific commitment to keep existing sanctions against Huawei Technologies in place.
A Chinese corruption charge that the mother of Canadian music star Wanting Qu embezzled more than 350 million yuan in her position as a Harbin housing official has been withdrawn, according to a social media post shared by Qu about the long-running case. But Zhang Mingjie, 65, remains in detention with her fate unclear more than six years after the accusations emerged. Prosecutors had sought the death penalty at Zhang’s original 2016 trial, but she has not been convicted.