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China Announces Taiwan Strait Live-fire Drills

Beijing on Thursday said it will hold live-fire military exercises in the Taiwan Strait amid heightened tensions over in... Read more

Beijing To Hold Live-fire Drill In Taiwan Strait

China on Thursday announced live-firing military exercises in the Taiwan Strait amid heightened tensions over increased ... Read more

Li Wenzu: I'm Free Now Thanks To Media, Friends

A mainland activist, Li Wenzu, said on Thursday that she is now a free woman, a day after she was apparently placed unde... Read more

Beijing Denies Xi Speech Was Concession To The US

China denied President Xi Jinping's pledge to further open the country's economy amounts to concessions in a trade spat ... Read more

Sun Zhengcai Pleads Guilty, Says Mainland Court

A former top Chinese Communist Party official who was once tipped for a leadership post pleaded guilty at his bribery tr... Read more

Sun Zhengcai Goes On Trial At Tianjin Court

A former top Chinese Communist Party official who was once tipped for a leadership post was put on trial on bribery char... Read more

Wife Of Chinese Rights Lawyer Under House Arrest

The wife of a detained Chinese human rights lawyer who had nearly completed a 100-kilometre march to highlight her husba... Read more

Sweden Charges Man With Spying For China

Swedish prosecutors on Wednesday charged a 49-year-old Chinese man with espionage for allegedly gathering intelligence o... Read more

Foreign Minister Wang Yi To Visit Tokyo In April

Foreign Minister Wang Yi will make an official visit to Japan in mid-April, his department announced on Wednesday, in a ... Read more

Taiwan Stresses Central America Ties

A Taiwanese navy flotilla has docked in Nicaragua in a high-profile visit highlighting ties with Central America and the... Read more

Vanuatu Denies Report Of Allowing Chinese Base

Vanuatu insisted on Tuesday it had no plans to allow China to set up a military base on its territory after a report sug... Read more

Xi Announces 'new Phase Of Opening Up Economy'

President Xi Jinping vowed on Tuesday to take new steps to open China's economy "wider and wider" amid a broiling trade ... Read more

Strong Wind Topples Emperor Statue In Shandong

A strong gale-force wind has toppled a giant statue of China's first emperor Qin Shi Huang and flattened its face at a p... Read more

'Impossible' To Hold Trade Talks Now, Says Beijing

China said on Monday that trade talks with the United States are "impossible" under current conditions after President D... Read more

Wife Of Missing Chinese Lawyer Arrested: Activist

A mainland activist who was marching from Beijing to Tianjin to find her lawyer husband arrested almost three years ago ... Read more