The Latest Breaking News on China

The State Department says it plans a massive increase in diplomatic personnel and spending for facilities at new U.S. embassies in the Pacific islands as the Biden administration forges ahead with efforts to counter China’s growing influence in the region

Foreign Minister Penny Wong has met with top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi for the second time since December, at a forum for southeast Asian foreign ministers.

The ISC’s warnings are unlikely to act as much of a brake on Britain’s approach to China

A misjudgment of China’s intentions could have disastrous consequences

The German government has presented a long-awaited strategy for relations with China that points to a “systemic rivalry” with the Asian power and a need to reduce risks of economic dependency, but highlights Berlin’s desire to work with Beijing on global challenges such as climate change

Without swift action Beijing could pose existential threat to liberal democracy, parliamentary committee says

Rishi Sunak’s policy is ‘shambolic mess’, Tory MPs tell The Independent – as spy watchdog reports on years of failure

Britain’s spy watchdog has slammed the Government for a “completely inadequate” response to Chinese espionage and interference which risked an “existential threat to liberal democratic systems”.

The prime minister who famously refuses to hold a press conference at home gave a long interview to a French business newspaper. Le Echos published the interview with Narendra Modi on its front page today, noting that it sat down with the PM in his “modern” home in Delhi.

China and Southeast Asian nations have agreed to try to conclude within three years a long-delayed nonaggression pact aimed at preventing frequent territorial spats in the busy South China Sea from turning into a major armed conflict

UK sent nearly £50m to China in aid in 2021-22, as a watchdog complained of ‘insufficient transparency’ in how money is spent