President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that the global governance system should be made more equitable and fair, and that rules set by one country or some nations cannot be imposed on others. Building barriers and pushing for decoupling will harm othe...

Taiwan is seeking to acquire long-range, air-launched cruise missiles from the United States, a defence official said on Monday, as the Chinese-claimed island bolsters its forces in the face of increasing pressure from Beijing. While Taiwan is deve...

China could see its number of births slide below 10 million annually in the next five years if the government does not quickly abolish its policy of limiting families to two children, an expert was quoted in domestic media as saying. China's total p...

The United States and China are "committed to cooperating" on the pressing issue of climate change, the two sides said in a joint statement, following a visit to Shanghai by US climate envoy John Kerry. "The United States and China are committed to ...

Taiwan prosecutors on Friday charged a truck driver with negligent homicide over his role in the island's worst rail disaster in decades that left 49 dead and more than 200 injured. The April 2 crash was caused by a railway maintenance truck that sl...

China said on Friday that the United States needed to take more responsibility on climate change but welcomed greater cooperation after a visit by envoy John Kerry, state media said. The former secretary of state turned US climate emissary was the f...

President Xi Jinping slammed the European Union's plan for a carbon tax system on Friday in a call with the leaders of France and Germany, state media reported. The European Parliament on Wednesday endorsed the creation of a carbon border tax that w...

China’s apparent success at controlling the coronavirus outbreak has resulted in a population that has seemed almost reluctant to get vaccinated. So it is accelerating its inoculation campaign by offering incentives — free eggs, store coupons a...

Taiwan's government on Thursday said it had accepted the resignation of its transport minister following a train crash earlier this month that killed 49 people, the island's deadliest in decades. The April 2 crash was caused by a railway maintenance...

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen told emissaries visiting at the request of US President Joe Biden on Thursday that the island would work with the United States to deter threats from Chinese military activities. Former senior US officials, including ex...

President Joe Biden sent an unofficial delegation of former US officials to Taiwan on Wednesday in a signal of support for the democratic island as it faces increasingly hostile moves by Beijing. Former senator Christopher Dodd and former deputy sec...

US climate envoy John Kerry will visit China this week in the first trip there by the Biden administration, which says it will find areas of cooperation with Beijing despite soaring tensions on multiple fronts. The former secretary of state will vis...

China reported nine new Covid-19 cases on April 12, down from 16 cases a day earlier, the country's national health authority said on Tuesday. The National Health Commission said in a statement that one of the new cases was a local infection reporte...

The government in Macau on Monday responded to citywide criticism of its latest giveaway plan by increasing the handouts from 4,800 patacas per resident to 8,000, and scrapping a controversial requirement for residents to spend first before receiving...

Thirteen people who describe themselves as "victims of forced confessions broadcast on Chinese television" are urging European satellite operator Eutelsat to reconsider carrying Chinese channels CGTN and CCTV4. The letter published by human rights w...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday the United States is concerned about China's aggressive actions against Taiwan and warned it would be a "serious mistake" for anyone to try to change the status quo in the Western Pacific by force. ...

Rescuers were working on Sunday to reach 21 workers trapped in a coal mine in northwest China's Xinjiang region after flooding cut power underground and disrupted communications, state media reported. The accident happened in Fengyuan coal mine in H...

China accused the US of causing humanitarian disasters through foreign military interventions in a report on Friday that was the latest broadside by Beijing amid increasingly contentious relations with the Biden administration. The report from the g...

The US Commerce Department said on Thursday it was adding seven Chinese supercomputing entities to an American economic blacklist for assisting Chinese military efforts. The department is adding Tianjin Phytium Information Technology, Shanghai High-...

China accused the United States of "politicising sports" on Wednesday, after Washington said it would discuss calls to boycott the Beijing Olympics with its allies after growing pressure to shun the Winter Games on human rights grounds. Republican ...