A senior Chinese official said on Monday that the United States and China had reached a framework agreement on the future of TikTok, while stressing that Beijing will protect its national interests. "The two sides reached a basic framework consensus...

US President Donald Trump said on Monday that trade talks with China had gone very well in Madrid and hinted that a deal has been reached to resolve issues that his administration has over TikTok ownership. The Republican president said he would be ...

The United States is "very close" to a deal with China to settle their dispute over TikTok, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Monday as the two sides resumed trade talks in Madrid. Bessent and Vice Premier He Lifeng opened the latest round...

China's top market watchdog announced on Monday a decision to launch a further probe into Nvidia for anti-trust violations following a preliminary investigation. The State Administration for Market Regulation said an investigation found the US chip ...

President Xi Jinping has called for the "orderly exit" of outdated production capacity and the curbing of disorderly price competition, Xinhua News Agency reported on Monday, citing an article written by Xi. China's leaders have pledged to put an en...

Delegations from China and the United States were set to continue their talks in Madrid into a second day on Monday over trade tensions and an imminent deadline for Chinese divestment from the short-video app TikTok. The latest round of negotiations...

Retail sales on the mainland continued to gain momentum, expanding 3.4 percent year on year in August, according to official figures released on Monday. That compared with a 3.7 percent increase in the month before. Sales of home electric appliance...

Voters in Macau have returned 26 new lawmakers in an election hailed as a success by the territory’s chief executive, Sam Hou-fai. Authorities said 175,272 ballots were cast to return 14 directly-elected members of the 8th Legislative Assembly of ...

The Chinese and US delegations arrived in Madrid on Sunday for a fresh round of economic and trade talks. Vice Premier He Lifeng and US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent kicked off their meeting at the Spanish capital, which is scheduled to last for ...

Macau Chief Executive Sam Hou-fai has called on voters of the Legislative Assembly election to choose responsible lawmakers to represent their views. His remark came as the city holds the eighth election of its legislature on Sunday to pick 14 dire...

China and the United States will hold a new round of economic and trade talks in Spain from Sunday. The Commerce Ministry said Vice Premier He Lifeng will meet a US delegation from September 14 to 17. The ministry said the two sides will discuss is...

The National People's Congress Standing Committee on Friday adopted a new law to regulate the response to public health emergencies and enhance the country's capacity to address such situations. According to Xinhua News Agency, "the law on public he...

A chartered plane carrying some 300 South Koreans, who were detained in a large-scale US immigration raid at a battery project site in Georgia, landed at Incheon airport near Seoul on Friday. Their return capped a week of intense negotiations by Seo...

The Oman Investment Authority (OIA) on Thursday pledged support for Chinese investors seeking to enter the Middle Eastern market. Speaking at the Belt and Road Summit in Hong Kong, the authority’s chief investment officer for private markets, Ib...

Nasa has begun barring Chinese nationals with valid visas from joining its programmes, underscoring the intensifying space race between the rival powers. The policy shift was first reported by Bloomberg News and confirmed by the US government agency...

Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Wednesday called on Beijing and Washington to "work together for world peace and prosperity" in a phone call with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. A Xinhua news agency report also cited Wang as saying that the two sides...

China said on Wednesday it strongly condemns Israel's deadly attack on Hamas political leaders in the Qatari capital Doha. Hamas said the strikes killed six people, including the son of its top negotiator and a Qatari security officer, but that seni...

Vice commerce minister Yan Dong on Wednesday said that Beijing is studying the feasibility of setting up a free trade zone between Hong Kong, Macau and the mainland, as part of measures to further boost the SAR's trade appeal and contribute to the Be...

The mainland's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, was down 0.4 percent year on year in August, according to figures from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Wednesday. NBS statistician Dong Lijuan attributed the decline to...

A bipartisan group of lawmakers from the US House of Representatives will make an official trip to China later this month, led by Democratic US Representative Adam Smith. Smith, a US representative from the Washington state, is the former chair of t...