The Latest Breaking News from Beijing

Authorities can swoop over anything they deem relevant to national security in toughening of law already used against expatriates or their Chinese contacts

How China’s bureaucracy guides its leaders into error.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping says Beijing will send an envoy to Ukraine to discuss a possible “political settlement” to Russia’s war with the country

In phone call with Zelenskiy, Xi appears to pledge China will stay neutral in war, according to Chinese state media

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday he had held a "long and meaningful" phone call with Chinese leader Xi Jinping and hoped it would give impetus to relations with Beijing.

India is unlikely to look at Russia as a “secure” friend, given Moscow’s closer ties with Beijing in the wake of the raging war in Ukraine, a top Indian-American Congressman has said.

Cleverly warns that if Beijing invaded Taiwan, it would destroy world trade

Chinese authorities have formally charged a prominent journalist with spying, over a year after he was detained while having lunch with a Japanese diplomat, a media rights group said. Dong Yuyu, a senior columnist at the Communist Party newspaper Guangming Daily, was detained in February 2022 along with the diplomat…

China is pushing ahead with the largest-ever expansion of its nuclear arsenal, modernizing the atomic deterrent with an eye on any future conflicts with the United States, experts say. The SIPRI think tank estimates that China has a stockpile of around 350 nuclear warheads -- small fry when compared with…