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WASHINGTON - U.S. and Chinese negotiators agreed Friday to extend high-level trade talks through the weekend, and President Donald Trump said he hoped to meet next month at his Florida resort with President Xi Jinping to try to…

WASHINGTON - The United States and China have started to outline commitments in principle on the stickiest issues in their trade dispute, marking the most significant progress yet toward ending a seven-month trade war, according to…

President Xi Jinping’s vision of a glorious China has struck a great wall. Economic and diplomatic supremacy was supposed to open-up new silk roads. Instead, he’s overreached. Now everything he says or does is met with suspicion.Beijing…

Mao Zedong’s personal secretary, Li Rui, who became one of the former Chinese Communist Party leader’s most vocal critics, died on Saturday at a hospital in Beijing. He was 101. A bold and deeply respected figure, Li continued to fight…

As top Chinese and American negotiators huddled in Beijing on Thursday and Friday to haggle over a comprehensive agreement to defuse the trade war, international reactions have been a mixed bag of trepidation and optimism. Following the…

President Donald Trump is insisting the trade negotiations with China are going “extremely well” and again offered the possibility of extending the deadline for the sharp rise in import duties. Previously, Trump demanded talks needed to…

Foreign Minister Taro Kono is planning to visit China, possibly in late March, to discuss bilateral cooperation on economic and other issues, diplomatic sources said Thursday, in a sign of improving relations between the two…

WASHINGTON/BEIJING - The Trump administration said the U.S. president still wants to meet China’s Xi Jinping in an effort to end the trade war, a sign of optimism as negotiators from the world’s two biggest economies start their…

BEIJING - The U.S. Embassy in Beijing says it is following the case of a Chinese-born Kazakh man who had been fighting attempts by Beijing to return him to China from neighboring Uzbekistan and whose current whereabouts are…

BEIJING - U.S. negotiators were in Beijing Monday for a new round of high-stakes trade talks, hoping to reach a deal before the March 1 deadline set by Donald Trump as the IMF warned of a possible global economic…

Chinese President Xi Jinping has turned to Karl Marx and Chinese classic teachings to justify his battle against pollution. Qiushi, the Communist Party’s journal, published in its January issue a speech Xi delivered in May in which he…

WASHINGTON - U.S. negotiators are preparing to press China next week on longstanding demands that it reform how it treats American companies’ intellectual property in order to seal a trade deal that could prevent tariffs from…

MUMBAI - China’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday condemned Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the disputed northeastern border state of Arunachal Pradesh, saying it “resolutely opposes” activities by Indian leaders in the…

When Kim Jong-un delivered his annual New Year’s address last month, the scene was unrecognisable from his first speech as leader of North Korea six years prior. Gone were the Maoist suit and lapel pin featuring the images of his father,…

WASHINGTON - Washington and Beijing are still a “sizable distance” apart in the trade talks, and no date has been set for a meeting between the countries’ leaders, a top White House adviser said Thursday.The remarks helped deepen…

He’s been spamming your phone, littering our cities with billboards and clogging TV airwaves with his face for weeks.Now, controversial mining magnate Clive Palmer is set to take his bid for political glory to a new level tonight when he…

BEIJING/TOKYO - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to visit Japan twice this year as Tokyo seeks a further improvement in relations with Beijing through a series of top-level meetings, diplomatic…

BEIJING - Japan and China agreed Saturday to accelerate preparations for Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Japan later this year, as the two nations have pledged to promote reciprocal visits by their leaders, a Japanese…

WASHINGTON - In a move that could harden Washington’s posture toward Beijing for years, the U.S. intelligence community has characterized relations with China as a global ideological showdown that will not be doused by trade deals…

WASHINGTON - A planned second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in late February will take place in Danang, Vietnam, CNN reported Friday.The plan is being finalized, it said, citing a…