The death toll from a mudslide in China's northwestern city of Xian has risen to 21, with six people still missing, the city's emergency management authority said on Sunday, as China grapples with unusually high summer rainfall.
Following a hotly contested U.S. election that reverberated across Chinese social media, drawing hundreds of millions of views on Weibo and birthing myriad memes, many Chinese academics and commentators are turning their attention to...
China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan, Brunei assert claims in South China Sea. China's claims supported by "history and jurisprudence". Philippines making vigorous claims. Chinese President visited Vietnam, Vietnamese states exercise...
Posting about politics on Weibo can sometimes look like a game of Russian Roulette: without knowing where the pitfalls lie, at some point one is bound to run into trouble. Hot takes can lead to quick suspensions. Asking for explanations...
Last week, the Jamestown Foundation published the second installment of a two-part investigation by researcher Sze-Fung Lee into “PRC Consulate Gray Zone ‘Pop-up’ Events in New York and Beyond.” The People’s Republic of...
Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey discuss Keir Starmer’s attempts to reset the UK’s relationship with China at the G20. Plus, rows flare in the Labour party over the assisted dying bill Continue reading...
Northern Mariana Islands governor says ‘the world is changing in the Indo-Pacific’ as work continues in the US territory on defense development The governor of the Northern Mariana Islands says an $800m US military upgrade plan which...
Prime minister wants bilateral at G20 to lead to closer ties with China, which he sees as key to faster growth Keir Starmer will become the first UK prime minister in six years to meet the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, promising to turn...
China has extended its dominance at home and abroad over critical minerals that are essential to future high-tech and renewable-energy industries. Amid intensifying geopolitical competition, Western countries are increasing their efforts...
China is renewing its criticism of this weekend's summit among the leaders of the US, Japan and South Korea, saying no country should "seek its own security at the expense of the security interests of others and of regional peace and...
The state visit will be Xi's second international trip of 2023, after making an official trip to Russia in March. "Chinese President Xi Jinping left Beijing on Monday for the 15th BRICS Summit to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa,...
Detained pro-democracy activist spoke for first time about charges against him under Hong Kong national security law Jimmy Lai, the detained pro-democracy activist and media mogul who is the target of Hong Kong’s most high-profile...
The Shenzhou-19 spaceship carrying three of China’s youngest taikonauts successfully launched and docked with China’s Tiangong space station this week. The mission follows the return of China’s sample-bearing lunar probe from the far...
Despite this year’s disappointing, propagandistic line-up of winners for the 34th China Journalism Award, some Chinese investigative journalists continue to ply their trade with dogged reporting, commitment to keeping the public...
At the Associated Press, Fu Ting reports mounting pressure on China’s independent bookstores and other cultural channels and venues: Independent bookstores have become a new battleground in China, swept up in the ruling...
The jailing of 45 pro-democracy activists testifies to the ruthless suppression of a once-vibrant civil society Defending Beijing’s draconian crackdown on political freedoms in Hong Kong, following the extraordinary protest movement in...
Concern is mounting over the health of imprisoned civil society activist and human-rights lawyer Xu Zhiyong, who has been on a nearly one-month hunger strike to protest his mistreatment in Shandong’s Lunan Prison. Many human rights...
On the eve of “Journalists’ Day” on November 8, the All-China Journalists Association announced the winners of the two most prestigious national prizes for reportage: the China Journalism Award and the Changjiang Taofen Award. A total of...
The amendment to the State Council Organic Law deepens the Party's control over state organs and the Party-state structure. It establishes new committees and encroaches on economic and financial policy. The premier's news conference...
PM questions sanctions against MPs and plight of Jimmy Lai as China’s president says Starmer ‘fixing foundations’ China’s president, Xi Jinping, has heaped praise on Keir Starmer’s economic policy, as the UK prime minister used their...
Documentary film-maker Nanfu Wang found difficulties while following an activist in Cuba for her revealing, and timely, new film Night is Not Eternal “I don’t believe in America being the beacon of democracy,” says the documentary...
Ten years after the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, the families of Chinese passengers are still searching for answers. The families visited officials and presented demands, hoping for the search to be restarted.