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.

The Chinese government has said it would take necessary counter-measures in response to the New York Stock Exchange’s announcement that it would delist three major Chinese telecoms firms.

Three Chinese companies will be booted off the New York Stock Exchange this month under an executive order signed in November by US president Donald Trump.

Chinese health regulators have given conditional approval to a coronavirus vaccine developed by a state-owned company. The two-dose Covid-19 vaccine is the first approved for general use in China.

Top EU officials and Chinese president Xi Jinping have concluded a business investment deal that will open up big opportunities to European companies but has the potential to irk the new US administration.

China is to suspend flights to and from the UK, joining a growing list of countries who have instituted travel bans in light of a new variant of coronavirus, its Foreign Ministry has announced. It did not offer details on when flights would stop.

Australia will ask the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to intervene in its dispute with China over barley and expects other nations to become involved in the case, the country’s trade minister said on Wednesday.

A tweet from a Chinese official with a fake image of an Australian soldier appearing to slit a child’s throat is “truly repugnant”, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said.

India banned 43 mobile apps, including many from China, with which it is locked in a military standoff along their border in the Himalayas.

"We respect the choice of the American people,” said foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin."

Drug giant Pfizer has received informal requests from the US Securities and Exchange Commission and Department of Justice for information on its China operations, according to a regulatory filing lodged by the company this week.

Senior military commanders from India and China have agreed to not add more troops along their disputed border in the mountainous Ladakh region where the two Asian giants are locked in a bitter months-long standoff.

Senior Indian and Chinese military commanders are holding talks aimed at resolving a tense months-long stand-off along their disputed border in the mountainous Ladakh region.

India’s defence minister said the country faces challenges in its border dispute with China and urged Beijing to sincerely implement an understanding they reached previously to completely disengage forces in the Ladakh region.

The World Trade Organisation has said US tariffs on Chinese goods totalling more than 200 billion dollars (£155 billion) are illegal under the rules of the global trade body.

Domestic air travel in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the global coronavirus outbreak, has returned to pre-pandemic levels, authorities say.

India has banned the widely popular Chinese mobile game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) along with 117 other mobile apps in another move targeting China.

Holding more than €16,000 in cash for a deposit on a security contract, getting refused for a credit card, and incomplete receipts to back up hotel stays were among the issues raised in a series of Department of Foreign Affairs audits of its ...

Bullion is ending a week filled with big price fluctuations on a relatively tame note, trading at over $100 an ounce below last week's record.  

A report from the Chinese authorities claiming Stormont’s leaders said they respected new security laws in Hong Kong has been amended to remove the controversial statement.

Stormont’s leaders have been urged to publish minutes of a meeting with a senior Chinese official amid claims they said they respected new security laws in Hong Kong.

Although Donald Trump's actions regarding TikTok could yield a short-term gain, they have introduced severe potential risks to US interests, not to mention to international and domestic rules of commerce. 

Australian prime minister Scott Morrison says his government holds a less dramatic view of US-China tensions than a predecessor who warned of a potential “hot war” before the American election this November.

The US says it has closed its consulate in Chengdu, China after China ordered the consulate closed in retaliation for a US order to shut down the Chinese Consulate in Houston last week.

China has told the US to close its consulate in the western city of Chengdu in the latest development in an increasingly tense diplomatic conflict.

The FBI believes the Chinese consulate in San Francisco is harbouring a Chinese researcher who is charged in federal court in California with lying about her military background.

Young Hongkongers may not be given an automatic right to move to the UK and will need to prove they still live with their parents in order to do so.

The US said it has ordered China to close its consulate in Houston “to protect American intellectual property” and the private information of Americans.

China says the US has ordered it to close its Houston consulate in what it called a provocation that violates international law.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have had “candid” talks as tensions mounted between China and the Western allies.

The US Justice Department has accused two Chinese hackers of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars of trade secrets from companies across the world and targeting firms developing a vaccine for coronavirus.

The US government has imposed trade sanctions on 11 companies it says are implicated in human rights abuses in China’s Muslim north-western region of Xinjiang.

China has warned Britain will “bear the consequences” of suspending its extradition treaty with Hong Kong as US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo prepares to meet the UK's Prime Minister.

A team of Chinese researchers are preparing to launch a third phase of testing for a potential Covid-19 vaccine after it was found to be safe during a trial involving just over 500 people.

The UK has suspended its extradition treaty with Hong Kong and slapped an arms embargo on the territory in response to China’s national security law.

Boris Johnson signalled he would be “tough” with China as the British Government prepared to change extradition arrangements with Hong Kong.

TikTok has insisted that China’s Communist Party does not have access to the personal information of its users.

China has warned it will deliver a “resolute response” to any move by Britain to sanction officials involved in the alleged human rights abuses against the country’s Uighur population.