Protesters in southern China clashed with police in a rare display of public opposition to anti-Covid measures, videos posted online showed, after lockdowns in the area were extended over a surge in infections.

Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping yesterday clashed over Taiwan but found areas of common ground, including a joint warning against Russia using nuclear weapons in Ukraine.

China yesterday condemned a White House plan to brief Taiwan on the results of a much-anticipated meeting between President Joe Biden and his counterpart, Xi Jinping, next week on the sidelines of a G20 gathering in Indonesia.

China reported its highest daily Covid caseload in six months yesterday, despite grinding lockdowns that have heavily disrupted manufacturing, education and day-to-day life.

After 70 years apart, childhood friends Xu Guizhen and Cao Zhenwei have been reunited and got married at the sprightly age of 94, He Qi reports in Shanghai.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz yesterday condemned threats to use atomic weapons in Ukraine, with Scholz warning that Russia risked “crossing a line” in the international community by resorting to nuclear force.

Chinese veterinary experts have been invited to Taiwan, zoo officials said yesterday, for a rare visit between the two sides after a male panda that symbolised an era of warmer ties was moved into end of life care.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to visit Saudi Arabia, the oil-rich kingdom’s foreign minister said. Prince Faisal bin Farhan hailed the “historical and solid relationship” between the major oil exporter and Beijing after talks with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi.

President Xi Jinping said China and the United States must “find ways to get along” to safeguard world peace and development, state media reported yesterday, as he embarks on his precedent-breaking third term in power.

Xi Jinping secured a historic third term as China’s leader yesterday and filled his inner circle with close allies, achieving after a decade in power complete dominance over the ruling Communist Party.

The Chinese Communist Party yesterday unveiled its new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee headed by leader Xi Jinping. Here are the men who will rule Beijing for the next five years under Xi’s leadership, in order of seniority.

When Xi Jinping took power in 2012, some observers predicted he would be the most liberal Communist Party leader in China’s history, based on his low-key profile, family backstory and perhaps a degree of misguided hope.

Xi Jinping on Sunday secured a third term as leader of China's ruling Communist Party and unveiled a seven-member Politburo Standing Committee, which he heads, that will determine the path of the country's development in the next five years.

Xi Jinping secured a historic third term as China's leader on Sunday and promoted some of his closest Communist Party allies, cementing his position as the nation's most powerful leader since Mao Zedong.

Chinese President Xi Jinping was all set for a historic third term in power as the Communist Party’s Congress ended yesterday, but the dramatic removal of his predecessor from the event stole the headlines.

Former Chinese president Hu Jintao was unexpectedly led out of the closing ceremony of the Communist Party Congress in a dramatic moment that disrupted the highly choreographed event.

China’s Communist Party wrapped up its twice-a-decade congress on Saturday, approving amendments cementing Xi Jinping’s iron grip on the party and revealing a new Central Committee missing two key officials lacking close ties to the leader.

President Xi Jinping hailed China’s rise as a global power and demanded unity around his leadership yesterday, launching a Communist Party Congress that is set to rubber stamp his bid to rule for a historic third term.

President Xi Jinping yesterday said China will give priority to environmental protection and promoting green lifestyles, and that the conservation of nature was an essential part of building a modern socialist country.

President Xi Jinping is expected to be handed a historic third term in control of China on October 23, it emerged yesterday, after a spokesman confirmed the Communist Party’s 20th Congress will end the previous day.