Chinese leader Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump discussed bilateral cooperation and the issue of Taiwan in a phone call yesterday, Beijing’s state news agency Xinhua reported.

China yesterday slammed Japan’s decision to push ahead with a planned deployment of missiles on an island near Taiwan, escalating a weeks-long diplomatic spat.

China and Japan's long-testy ties have spiralled further this month

Air China, China Southern and China Eastern all published separate statements

China has advised its citizens to refrain from travelling to Japan

The two leaders held talks in South Korea at the end of October

China’s factory activity shrank for a seventh straight month in October, official data showed Friday, as trade uncertainty ahead of talks between President Xi Jinping and US leader Donald Trump weighed on the economic powerhouse.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping was expected to meet Canada and Japan's new prime ministers for the first time on Friday, a day after agreeing to a trade war ceasefire with US President Donald Trump..The meeting in Busan, South Korea saw Trump announce a cut in US tariffs and Xi agree to maintai

China exercises a virtual monopoly on so-called "rare earth" metals, essential for everything from household appliances to cars, energy and weapons

Investors cautiously optimistic of trade truce extension

Beijing’s top diplomat yesterday told his Japanese counterpart he sees “positive signals” from Tokyo’s new leadership, after the country swore in a prime minister long viewed as a China hawk.

Trump's aides have accused India of fuelling Russia's war in Ukraine by buying Moscow's oil

China will develop its high-tech sector on a massive scale in the next decade, top officials vowed yesterday, a day after meetings on the country’s future policy priorities concluded in Beijing.

Trump, under pressure from US farmers reeling from big drops in Chinese orders for soybeans, said he expected to reach some agreement with Xi on the issues

China yesterday accused the United States of conducting cyberattacks on Beijing’s national time centre that could have caused severe damage to critical financial and telecommunications infrastructure.

China’s new visa programme aimed at attracting foreign tech talent kicks off this week, a move seen boosting Beijing’s fortunes in its geopolitical rivalry with Washington as a new US visa policy prompts would-be applicants to scramble for alternatives.

Live drone footage broadcast by state media on Sunday showed vehicles traversing the immense structure

Also announces a delay until Jan 20 in enforcing law that would otherwise ban the app

Ragasa is expected to make landfall in the central and western coastal areas of Guangdong within 24 hours

Parvez Karim Abbasi discusses Bangladesh’s geopolitical balancing act