The Latest Breaking News from Beijing

Hong Kong judges have proposed a new delay in the trial of a prominent activist publisher who was arrested in August 2020 under a sweeping Beijing-imposed national security law

Winking, grimacing or nodding their heads, robots mimicked the expressions of visitors at a robot expo in Beijing.

The Hai River basin is “the largest natural drainage system in northern China”, said Channel News Asia (Singapore). It has five rivers flowing into it and it contains the capital, Beijing, as well as the major port city of Tianjin. 

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has called for measures to mitigate the effects of this year’s disastrous flooding which has left scores dead and inflicted massive damage on crops, homes and infrastructure, including in and around Beijing

Amid Japan-South Korea detente, summit presents chance to shore up trilateral alliance to counter China and North Korea.

If Beijing is forced to step in to save the economy, that might push Fitch Ratings to consider a downgrade, given a debt-to-GDP ratio that's "a little bit on the high side."

U.S. defense strategists warn that China may use the distraction of the war in Ukraine to launch military action against Taiwan. They believe Chinese President Xi Jinping is determined to gain control over the breakaway province – which has been beyond Beijing’s control since the founding of the People’s Republic…

Beijing denies it is in a ‘deflation’ but figures suggest economic struggle

The triple Olympic champion stormed to victory in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium, comfortably beating the mark of 9.69secs set in Beijing the previous year.

Self-ruled island that Beijing claims as its own is due to go to the polls in January with VP Lai the frontrunner.

Xi Jinping does not want Russia to be overly powerful in order to confront China, but he also does not want Moscow to lose.