The Latest Breaking News from Beijing

International Crisis Group urges all parties including US to re-establish a baseline level of trust

This week, two of the original members of Australia’s 1971 “ping-pong diplomacy” team are returning to Beijing to mark the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two nations.

Media tycoon and activist Jimmy Lai has been detained in China since 2020 and while foreign secretary James Cleverly says he raised the issue in Beijing, it is not clear how

The move follows Beijing’s move to impose a national security law following the 2019 mass protests for democracy.

The third Belt and Road Forum held in Beijing recently attracted fewer heads of state or senior officials than the previous forums in 2017 and 2019. There were 11 European presidents and prime ministers at the 2019 forum. But last week’s forum attracted only three.

With China resisting U.S. pleas to manage superpower competition, other countries should step in.

Visit takes place amid Israel-Hamas war and escalating tensions in the disputed South China Sea.

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that the Hamas attack had been traumatic for Israel but that it also was a disaster for the Palestinian people. "Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people," Macrontold reporters alongside Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, in the West Bank, following a meeting…

Beijing’s claim is embodied by its nine-dash line that an international court rejected more than seven years ago.