The Latest Breaking News from China

Vladimir Putin, of all people, was the first world leader to grasp what a big deal artificial intelligence was for geopolitics. “Whoever becomes the leader,” he warned a group of schoolchildren more than five years ago, “will become the ruler of the world.” What, back then, seemed even to cutting-edge…

Don Farrell has become the first Australian trade minister to visit China since 2019, touching down in Beijing on Thursday afternoon.

VW Group was criticized over the alleged use of forced labor in China, as well as the slow EV transition and market share loss in China to BYD and Tesla.

A genetics study finds that some of the first arrivals came from China during two distinct migrations: the first during the last ice age, and the second shortly after.

HONG KONG: A Hong Kong newspaper on Thursday scrapped a political cartoon after a four-decade run following a series of complaints by authorities, the cartoonist said, in what was seen as the latest blow to media freedom in the China-ruled city.

Diplomats from several countries including the United States said on Thursday they were prevented from attending the subversion trial of rights activist and lawyer Guo Feixiong in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou.

LABUAN BAJO: Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) leaders on Thursday urged restraint and peaceful resolution of disputes in the South China Sea and said a surge in missile tests by North Korea was a threat to regional peace.

French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna and her Chinese counterpart Qin Gang agreed on the need to "develop an economic relationship that is both stronger and more balanced", the foreign ministry in Paris said after they met on Wednesday.

China’s local municipalities are heavily in debt, with all 31 apart from Shanghai reporting deficits in 2022.