As Kim Ends Beijing Visit, China and North Korea Craft New Messages

Images of the meeting between Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, and President Xi Jinping of China were displayed on outdoor screens in Beijing on Tuesday. CreditAndy Wong/Associated Press

Propaganda departments in China and North Korea were in full swing on Wednesday as Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, concluded a two-day tour of China that painted the once-reclusive autocrat as a forward-looking leader.

Kim Jong-un Returns to China, This Time With Leverage

President Xi Jinping of China welcomed North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Tuesday. Analysts said the trade conflict between China and North Korea put Mr. Kim in an enviable position.CreditKorean Central News Agency, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, arrived in Beijing on Tuesday amid an escalating trade conflict between China and the United States, one that gives him an opening to play the powers against each other as Washington presses him to dismantle his nuclear arsenal.

Hong Kong Marks Tiananmen Crackdown, as China Ignores Event

Tens of thousands of people attended the annual candlelight vigil at Hong Kong’s Victoria Park, on Monday, to mark the 29th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown.CreditKin Cheung/Associated Press

Tens of thousands of pro-democracy activists turned out in Hong Kong Monday to commemorate the 29th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing, observing an event that goes largely unmentioned in mainland China.

A Trump-Kim Deal Could Send China’s Trade With North Korea Soaring

A luxury apartment complex in Dandong, China, near the border with North Korea, last month. A big screen played footage on a loop of a meeting between President Xi Jinping of China and North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un.CreditYan Cong for The New York Times

In the Chinese border town of Hunchun, garment factories gladly employ squads of North Koreans, who are valued as skilled and dutiful workers. Live crab from the North wriggle in huge tanks in the fish market. Informal bankers promise to deliver the equivalent of thousands of dollars in Chinese currency to North Koreans across the border in a matter of hours.

U.S. Army Veteran Tried to Spy for China, Officials Say

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, where Ron Rockwell Hansen of Syracuse, Utah, was arrested on Saturday, just before he entered the airport to board a connecting flight to China.CreditRuth Fremson/The New York Times

Tens of thousands of dollars in cash. Documents listing locations of United States Cyber Command outposts. A passcode-protected thumb drive, hidden behind a sock in the toe of a shoe.

China Tries to Erase Taiwan, One Ally (and Website) at a Time

The changing of the guard at Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan’s capital. China’s recent efforts to isolate Taiwan, diplomatically and otherwise, have been its most intense in decades, people on the self-governing island say.CreditIsaac Lawrence for The New York Times

Can China use its enormous economic and diplomatic leverage to simply erase Taiwan’s international identity?