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China reported its first Covid-19 death in almost six months on Sunday as the virus outbreak in the country continues unabated. A 87-year-old man in Beijing died on Saturday after his condition worsened, according to media report. He first…

Chinese President Xi Jinping has never expressed interest in a military base in Papua New Guinea, the nation’s leader said, amid growing concerns among US allies about Beijing’s security interests in the Pacific. Prime Minister James…

China may have significantly eased the way it responds to Covid-19 outbreaks, but some major cities still barely move when the virus is spreading. There were dramatic declines in the number of people on the subway in a slew of China’s…

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed Thursday to work for stabilizing bilateral ties and expressed their opposition to any use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine, in a veiled counter to Russia's threat to…

On Monday, a rumor took hold that Shijiazhuang, a small city 260km from Beijing, was to become a test case for China’s reopening, dismantling key parts of the Covid-zero regime. But rather than jubilation that the policy’s incessant…

French President Emmanuel Macron tweeted Tuesday that he and Chinese leader Xi Jinping called for respecting Ukrainian territorial integrity and sovereignty and stopping escalation of the war in Ukraine as they met in Indonesia's Bali. In…

Senior executives across China’s US$58 trillion financial system are facing additional pay cuts as firms from investment banks to mutual funds weigh options to comply with President Xi Jinping’s “common prosperity” drive. At least four of…

The face-to-face meeting between United States President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping was a powerful signal to the rest of the world that both leaders can manage ties, according to US trade chief Katherine Tai. “It’s a really…

Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger has praised renewed talks between the United States and China at a summit in Bali, but said a long path remains to prevent conflict between the world’s largest economies. The 99-year-old…

A surge in Covid-19 cases threatens to turn into an early test of China’s resolve to ease some of its strict virus controls, after health officials over the weekend said the changes were a refinement, not a relaxation, of the rules. The…