Xi Jinping

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

China’s ruling Communist Party called the swift end of the 22-hour revolt Moscow’s ‘internal affair,’ with state media affirming China’s support for Russia

The president said his blunt statements regarding China are ‘just not something I’m going to change very much’

State media say the blast tore through the restaurant Wednesday evening in the capital of the traditionally Muslim Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region

The meeting of heads of intelligence agencies held in Singapore symbolizes the attempt to keep the multilateral framework alive in an increasingly conflict-ridden world

The clash of words comes just over a day after Secretary of State Antony Blinken concluded a visit to Beijing that sought to break the ice in a relationship that has hit a historical low

Washington is strengthening traditional alliances such as NATO, while in the Asia Pacific it is forging new networks with more limited objectives

Blinken and Xi pronounce themselves satisfied with progress made during two days of talks, without pointing to specific areas of agreement

Animosity and recriminations have steadily escalated over a series of disagreements that have implications for global security and stability

The Secretary of State will be the most senior U.S. official to visit China since President Joe Biden took office and amid rising tensions between the two countries

The diplomat appointed by Beijing to seek a negotiated solution to the war believes there is still a ‘risk’ of an escalation of the conflict

The country’s warning underscores the tension between Xi Jinping’s determination to seize global leadership in cutting-edge technology and concerns about the possible social and political harms of such technologies

To the chagrin of the West, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva strongly defends his own position, whether that be on Venezuela or China

As it seeks ‘self-sufficiency’ in the face of curbs imposed by Washington, China has brought together key figures at a technology forum in Beijing

A recent increase in exchanges between the U.S. and Taiwanese militaries is an ‘extremely wrong and dangerous move,’ a spokesperson from China’s Defense Ministry said

The assault early Tuesday came as European leaders sought new ways to punish Russia for the war and a Chinese envoy sought traction for Beijing’s peace proposal

Details of the charges against John Shing-Wan Leung, who also holds permanent residency in Hong Kong and was detained in April 2021, have not been publicly released