China passed a law on a "shared" national identity ⁠among ⁠the country's 55 ethnic minority groups on ⁠Thursday, a move critics say will further erode the identity of people who are not ​majority Han Chinese and risk making anyone challenging that "unity" a separatist punishable by law.

President Donald Trump’s administration started the first of several sweeping trade investigations that set the stage for new tariffs, the centerpiece of a push to replace levies struck down by the US Supreme Court.