Chinese President Xi Jinping told visiting North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho on Friday that Washington and Pyongyang should address each others’ concerns and make progress to rid the Korean peninsula of nuclear weapons. Ri’s visit to Beijing came just days after Xi held talks with US President Donald Trump in Argentina, where North Korea […] Read more

French authorities are bracing for the possibility of more riots and violence at planned anti-government protests this weekend. The government is deploying tens of thousands of police and security forces across the country, while in Paris, museums, theatres and shops announced they would close on Saturday as a precaution – including the iconic Eiffel Tower. Police unions and […] Read more

Portugal’s decision to sign a memorandum of understanding with China on its “Belt and Road Initiative” is likely to fuel concerns within the European Union about Beijing’s efforts to extend its geopolitical influence in the region, analysts said. The formal agreement, which was signed on Wednesday during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Lisbon, came […] Read more

Nearly 350,000 cadres have been disciplined by the ruling Communist Party’s anti-corruption watchdog in the six years since President Xi Jinping’s crackdown on extravagance began. That means more than 2 per cent of cadres – there were 12.5 million of them directly working for the party and the government in 2016, according to the statistics […] Read more

Chinese President Xi Jinping has said Portugal’s geographical location offers “advantages” and pressed it to formally join Beijing’s “Belt and Road Initiative” during his visit to Lisbon, but the southern European country has so far joined Spain in stopping short of signing up. Xi told Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa that China wanted to […] Read more

Chinese tourism experts say independent millennials will drive China’s outbound tourism boom in years to come and operators need to get ready. The post-80s generation of Chinese, brought up in one child families under former Chinese leader Deng Xiao Ping’s open door policy, are driving the flow, according to Cheng Mingming, Lecturer in Tourism at […] Read more

China scored a win against the illegal trade in fentanyl thanks to cooperation with US authorities but it. faces an uphill battle to contain the flourishing transnational black market as it evolves beyond the law. In the southern Chinese province of Hebei on Thursday, 21 people pleaded guilty at Xingtai Intermediate People’s Court to trading […] Read more

Chinese President Xi Jinping has landed in Panama for the first state visit by a Chinese leader to the small Central American nation, made possible when Panama switched its diplomatic ties from Taipei to Beijing last year. Xi was welcomed by Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela as he arrived in Tocumen International airport on Sunday […] Read more

China has halted the work of the scientist who claims to have created the world’s first genetically edited babies, and says it will investigate. He Jiankui caused outrage earlier this week when he told a genome summit he had altered the genes of twin baby girls so they could not contract HIV. His statement has […] Read more

On a late August weekend in 2017, a week after he was forced out as President Trump’s chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon made a trip to the Connecticut country house of Henry A. Kissinger to talk about China. It was more of a pilgrimage, actually: the prophet of disruption seeking out the high priest of […] Read more