US President Donald Trump said his conversation with President Xi Jinping last week was friendly, and he thought he could reach a trade deal with China. The leaders of the world's two biggest economies discussed issues including TikTok, trade and Ta...

China announced plans on Thursday to channel hundreds of billions of yuan annually into shares from state-owned insurers, in the country's latest effort to support its domestic equity markets. Authorities will in the first half of this year call on ...

China on Wednesday vowed to defend its national interests after US President Donald Trump said that a 10 percent duty on Chinese imports could come as soon as February 1. "We have always believed that there are no winners in a trade war or a tariff ...

Panama has complained to the United Nations over US President Donald Trump's "worrying" threat to seize the Panama Canal, even as it launched an audit of the Hong Kong-linked operator of two ports on the inter-oceanic waterway. In a letter to UN Sec...

US President Donald Trump pledged on Tuesday to hit the European Union with tariffs, adding that a 10 percent duty on Chinese imports could also come as soon as February 1. Trump voiced his latest tariff threats in remarks to reporters at the White ...

US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he would be open to tech billionaire Elon Musk - the owner of social media platform X - buying Chinese-owned app TikTok. "I would be if he wanted to buy it," Trump told reporters when asked if he was op...

President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that China and Russia should consolidate and expand bilateral relations and push for in-depth development of practical cooperation. Xi made the remarks when holding talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in ...

Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang warned on Tuesday that no country would emerge victorious from a trade war, in a speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos as Donald Trump returned to the White House. Ding, who's also a Politburo Standing Committee memb...

China installed a record amount of renewable energy in 2024, data from the National Energy Administration (NEA) showed on Tuesday. Beijing has committed to bring carbon emissions to a peak by 2030 and to net zero by 2060. The nation added about 277...

China said it hopes for cooperation with the United States to resolve trade issues, a day after Donald Trump was sworn in as US president. "China is willing to strengthen dialogue and communication with the United States, properly manage differences...

Chinese stocks and the yuan tentatively rose on Tuesday, with investors relieved that US President Donald Trump did not announce hefty trade tariffs at his inauguration. Trump returned to the White House on Monday with an ambitious agenda spanning t...

Shares of China's embattled Country Garden jumped as much as 11 percent in resumed trade on Tuesday following a more than nine-month trading suspension to give time for the developer to prepare delayed financial statements for 2023 and 2024. On Mond...

A 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck a mountainous, rural area of Taiwan's south on Tuesday, according to China Earthquake Networks Centre (CENC). Twenty-seven people were injured. The quake hit at 12:17am local time, with its epicentre at a depth of ...

Authorities on Monday executed a man who killed 35 people in a car rampage in Zhuhai last November, state media said. A court in the city "executed Fan Weiqiu in accordance with the execution order issued by the Supreme People's Court", state broadc...

Vice President Han Zheng on Sunday told American Vice President-elect JD Vance that there is a lot of room for China-US cooperation, in a meeting ahead of Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration. Han told Vance that Beijing is willing to work wit...

TikTok stopped working in the United States late on Saturday and disappeared from Apple and Google app stores ahead of a law that takes effect on Sunday requiring the shutdown of the app used by 170 million Americans. President-elect Donald Trump sa...

President Xi Jinping held a phone call on Friday with US President-elect Donald Trump, state media reported. Later, Trump told reporters that he discussed Sino-US trade ties, the fentanyl drug problem and the Tiktok situation with Xi, saying their p...

China's population fell for a third consecutive year in 2024, with the number of deaths outpacing a slight increase in births. The National Bureau of Statistics said the total number of people in China dropped by 1.39 million to 1.408 billion in 202...

China's economy ended 2024 on better footing than expected, growing 5.4 percent in the fourth quarter from a year earlier, to put the full-year GDP growth at 5 percent. Boosted by a flurry of stimulus measures, the economy grew at the quickest pace ...

Mainland authorities have begun preparations to resume group tours to Taiwan by residents of Shanghai and Fujian province in the near future, the culture and tourism ministry said on Friday. The two sides have yet to resume such tours since the end ...