The Latest Breaking News from Beijing

Partnership deal signed by 14 nations follows historic summit at the White House and comes as China extends influence.

SHANGHAI: A central bank digital currency trial focused on cross-border transactions involving China, Thailand, Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates has been completed, as Beijing tries to internationalise its digital yuan.

Beijing’s ban on macaque exports—needed to test vaccines and other lifesaving drugs—could give its pharma industry an edge.

Like many other world currencies, China's onshore and offshore Yuan both fell against the dollar on Wednesday, increasing the pressure on the People's Bank of China to intervene directly. The drop is a result of the strong US dollar following the Federal Reserve's rate hikes, coupled with Beijing's more dovish…

The US is elevating its engagement with the Pacific as Beijing increases its presence in the region.

China has spent a trillion dollars to expand its influence across Asia, Africa and Latin America through its Belt and Road infrastructure program. Now, Beijing is working on an overhaul of the troubled initiative, according to people involved in policy-making.

Chinese President Xi Jinping visited an exhibition in Beijing on Tuesday, according to state television, in his first public appearance since returning to China from an official trip to Central Asia in mid-September.

Former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo told an audience in Taiwan on Tuesday that the era of "blind engagement" with China is ending, and that Beijing's increasingly aggressive behavior has brought like-minded nations closer together. One of former president Donald Trump's most hawkish advisers on China, Pompeo is the…

Apple is to start making iPhone 14s in India, amid growing criticism over the economic and human costs of Beijing's strict COVID-zero policy.