Xi Jinping

The Russian leader, who has barely traveled abroad since the invasion of Ukraine, is attending a forum on the Belt and Road initiative and will meet with the Chinese president on Wednesday

The jolt of consumer spending during the eight-day annual holiday was not enough to counteract the current slowdown

Relations between the world’s two largest economies have faced no shortage of strain over the last year. The two countries’ differences have also been exacerbated by Russia’s war in Ukraine and China’s increased assertiveness in the Taiwan Strait

Beijing insists on its openness, while the disengagement persists in several sectors months after reopening its borders

The announcement sets the stage for a possible meeting between President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, in November

The White House said in a statement that Jake Sullivan and Chinese envoy Wang Yi had “candid, substantive and constructive discussions”. The two officials spent about 12 hours together over two days in Malta

The Venezuelan leader seeks to strengthen ties with Beijing as attempts at rapprochement with Washington remain fruitless

Sunak said he raised the issue with Premier LI Qiang when the two met at a Group of 20 summit in India

Beijing defends a decade of global benefits from the program, but critics warn of spiraling debt for developing countries

India recently overtook China as the world’s most populous nation and the two are rivals in technology, space exploration and global trade

Gina Raimondo is the fourth American official to visit the Asian country since June. While she left with ‘some optimism,’ Beijing remains skeptical of Washington’s overtures

Raimondo plans meetings with Chinese officials and U.S. business leaders in Beijing and Shanghai

Putin skips meeting with leaders of the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa bloc fearing arrest for war crimes in Ukraine invasion

The Russian president’s travel to Johannesburg was complicated by an outstanding International Criminal Court warrant for his arrest over the abduction of children from Ukraine

The order seeks to blunt China’s ability to use U.S. investments in its technology companies to upgrade its military while also preserving broader levels of trade that are vital for both nations’ economies

The Philippine military on Sunday condemned the Chinese coast guard ship’s “excessive and offensive” use of a water cannon to block a Filipino supply boat

Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s government is making ambitious promises to drag the economy out of that crisis of confidence aggravated by tension with Washington

The U.S. president will meet with the Italian prime minister on Thursday, and try to persuade her to back out of China’s Belt and Road Initiative

The development comes after Qin dropped out of sight almost a month ago amid speculation over his personal affairs and political rivalries. He was replaced with his predecessor, Wang Yi

Vice President Han Zheng told U.S. climate envoy John Kerry in Beijing that addressing climate change is ‘an important aspect of China-U.S. cooperation’ but is predicated on mutual respect

Kerry met on Tuesday with the ruling Communist Party’s head of foreign relations Wang Yi, telling him Biden hoped the two countries could ‘achieve efforts together that can make a significant difference to the world’

Yellen is one of a series of U.S. officials who are due to visit Beijing as part of efforts to revive relations that are at their lowest level in decades

Beijing has placed export controls on two critical minerals for making semiconductors and introduced a law that places the Communist Party at the center of foreign policy

Yellen planned to focus on stabilizing the global economy and challenging Chinese support of Russia during its invasion of Ukraine

Analysts say his participation at a virtual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization on Tuesday is an opportunity to show he is in control after a short-lived insurrection by Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin

The goal of her visit is to deepen and increase the frequency of communication between U.S. and China