The Latest Breaking News from Beijing

BEIJING: China's largest naval training ship sailed for the Philippines on Friday, its last stop of a regional "friendly" tour, amid growing unease over Chinese maritime activities in the South China Sea.

US and Cuban officials dismissed a Wall Street Journal report about a surveillance base to be built in the Caribbean.

The Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) wants to increase Chinese investment in Thailand, especially in the electric vehicle (EV), food and healthcare segments, by advocating more business cooperation with Beijing.

Fresh off a promising trip to Beijing, a US diplomat says his country is doing all it can to avoid miscalculation in tensions with China. Sam Sachdeva reports.

He Jiankui, who shocked the world in 2018 by announcing the creation of the first gene-edited babies, tells NPR he's now working on a cure for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

The country that leads the way in artificial intelligence “will become the ruler of the world”. 

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visits Washington as the UK looks for closer economic ties after leaving the EU. China denounces Europe's new "economic weapon" aimed at preventing Beijing from putting trade pressure on EU members over support for Taiwan, and TikTok aims to quadruple its e-commerce revenues.

China’s defence ministry says patrol with Russian bomber aircraft was part of exercises that first started in 2019.

The capital is the second city on the Chinese mainland to confirm at least one infection of the disease among humans

Survey reveals shift in opinion since Ukraine war and big majority favour EU increasing its defence capabilities

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to China for talks in the coming weeks, an official said on Tuesday, months after Washington's top diplomat scrapped a planned trip over a suspected Chinese spy balloon that flew across the U.S.