The Latest Breaking News from Beijing

BEIJING: China successfully launched its cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-5 on Saturday to deliver supplies for its space station, the construction of which is expected to be completed this year.

Quarantine periods shortened by two days but Beijing government ‘will not waver’ from strict zero-Covid policy

Cybersecurity researchers said they have found evidence of Chinese spyware in Uyghur-language apps that can track the location and harvest the data of Uyghurs living in China and abroad. Uyghurs are a Turkic Muslim minority predominantly in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang, where a recent UN report said Beijing may…

“There’s been no official contact between Taiwan and China for quite some time. If the United States is able to talk to the Chinese side some of the concerns on the Taiwanese side, that will be very helpful to Taiwan as well.”

BEIJING: China reduced the amount of time travelers and close contacts of infected people must spend in quarantine, a significant calibration of the Covid Zero policy that has isolated the world’s second-largest economy and raised public ire.

BEIJING: China’s daily Covid infections exceeded 10,000 for the first time since April, with Beijing’s cases at the highest level in more than a year, as the country’s top leaders urged more targeted restrictions aimed at controlling the virus.

China's capital Beijing has closed city parks and imposed other restrictions as the country faces a new wave of COVID-19 cases

China on Friday eased some of its strict COVID rules, including shortening quarantines by two days for close contacts of infected people and for inbound travellers, and removing a penalty for airlines for bringing in too many cases.

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Joe Biden will seek to set a floor to prevent U.S.-China ties from deteriorating further when he meets his Chinese President Xi Jinping on Nov. 14, a senior Biden administration official said.