China has sent 19 fighter jets towards Taiwan in a large display of force. This happened after the self-governing island announced its intention to join an 11-nation Pacific trade group that China has also applied to join.

Taiwan has applied to join an 11-nation Pacific trade group, Cabinet officials said, setting up a potential clash with rival Beijing over the status of the island democracy.

Chinese President Xi Jinping said his country will no longer fund coal-fired power plants abroad, surprising the world on climate for the second straight year at the UN General Assembly

China says the international community should support chances for positive developments in Afghanistan rather than impose sanctions on the Taliban.

China has said it is waiting for the establishment of an “open, inclusive, and widely representative” government in Afghanistan before it decides on the issue of recognition.

More than 30 Chinese officials have been sacked or received other punishments over accusations they failed to respond properly to the latest surge of the coronavirus in the country.

China’s worst coronavirus outbreak since the start of the pandemic has escalated with dozens more cases around the country, the sealing-off of one city and the punishment of its local leaders.

Chinese authorities have announced mass coronavirus testing in Wuhan as an unusually wide series of Covid-19 outbreaks reached the city where the disease was first detected in late 2019.

An editorial in the state-run newspaper Global Times said the CSG entered the sea on Sunday as part of the “UK’s effort to show its presence in the region”.

China cannot accept the World Health Organisation’s plan for the second phase of a study into the origins of Covid-19, a senior Chinese health official said.

China has hit out at the UK and other western nations for “groundless and irresponsible” accusations that it was behind major “systematic cyber sabotage”.

The European Union joined the UK in blaming the attacks on hackers based in China, although it did not explicitly link them to the Chinese state.

The US administration has upheld a Trump-era rejection of nearly all of China’s significant maritime claims in the South China Sea.

As part of the boycott, the British government was also urged to abstain from sending officials to ceremonies and functions, discourage UK businesses from sponsoring or advertising at the event

Six new cases were reported in Guangzhou in 24 hours, raising the number in the outbreak to more than 100.

China has stepped up its vaccination programme, giving out 100 million shots of its Covid-19 jabs in the span of just five days last month.

Malaysia’s government will issue a diplomatic protest against an “intrusion” by 16 Chinese military aircraft into its airspace, the foreign minister said.

The southern Chinese city of Guangzhou has shut down a neighbourhood and ordered its residents to stay at home for door-to-door coronavirus testing following a surge in coronavirus infections.

British researchers say the world’s production of solar panels is being fuelled by forced labour from Uighur Muslims in the Chinese province of Xinjiang.

The Beijing based company Sinovac is developing the inactivated jab and the review is based on preliminary results from lab and clinical studies

Ireland’s exports to China fell sharply at the start of this year, suggesting that last year’s stellar sales to China are at risk

Suspected state-backed Chinese hackers exploited widely used networking devices to spy for months on dozens of high-value government, defence industry and financial sector targets in the US and Europe, according to prominent cybersecurity firm ...

Taiwan’s foreign minister said the island will defend itself “to the very last day” if attacked by China. Joseph Wu said China’s attempts at conciliation while engaging in military intimidation are sending “mixed signals” to the island’s residents.

A Chinese border city hit by a fresh outbreak of Covid-19 has started a five-day drive to vaccinate its entire population of 300,000 people.

Yvonne Murray and her family had to leave China because of mounting pressure from the Chinese Authorities.

Chinese officials have briefed diplomats on the ongoing research into the origin of Covid-19, ahead of the expected release of a long-awaited report from the World Health Organisation.

Hundreds of Uighurs staged protests in Ankara and Istanbul, denouncing Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi’s visit to Turkey and demanding that the Turkish government take a stronger stance against human rights abuses in China’s far-western Xinjiang ...

The leaders of China and North Korea have reaffirmed their traditional alliance.

The contentious tone of their public comments suggested the private discussions would be even more rocky

There is strong evidence that continued growth in Ireland’s exports to the Asian market can be expected this year and next

China is aiming to vaccinate 70-80% of its population against coronavirus by the end of this year or mid-2022, the head of the country’s Centre for Disease Control has said.

China’s military has acknowledged four of its soldiers were killed in a high-mountain border clash with Indian forces last year, the first time Beijing has publicly conceded its side suffered casualties in the deadliest incident between the Asian ...

The UK's Foreign Secretary has branded China’s decision to ban BBC World News an “unacceptable curtailing of media freedom”. Dominic Raab said the move will damage Beijing’s reputation in the eyes of the world.

Joe Biden on Wednesday held his first call as president with Xi Jinping, pressing the Chinese leader about trade and Beijing’s crackdown on democracy activists in Hong Kong as well as other human rights concerns.

World Health Organisation (WHO) investigators have visited a research centre in the Chinese city of Wuhan that has been the subject of speculation about the origins of the coronavirus.

World Health Organisation (WHO) experts have visited an animal disease centre in the Chinese city of Wuhan as part of their investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.

Indian and Chinese soldiers clashed last week along the countries’ disputed border, officials in India have said.

US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has imposed new sanctions on China and said its policies on Muslims and ethnic minorities in Xinjiang constitute a “genocide”.

Taiwanese troops using tanks, mortars and small arms staged a drill aimed at repelling an attack from China, which has increased its threats to reclaim the island and its own displays of military might.

A spokesperson says the Irish company 'at all times acted in good faith'. 

Chinese GDP climbed 6.5% in the final quarter from a year earlier, pushing growth to 2.3% for the full year

Coronavirus was found on ice cream produced in eastern China, prompting a recall of cartons from the same batch, according to the government.

US president Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning transactions with eight Chinese software applications, including Ant Group’s Alipay mobile payment app, the White House said, escalating tensions with Beijing two weeks before ...

The head of the World Health Organisation has said he is “disappointed” that Chinese officials have not finalised permission for the arrival of a team of experts into China to examine the origins of Covid-19.