A Hong Kong court is hearing final arguments in the national security trial of former Apple Daily publisher Jimmy Lai.

For most of his quarter-century rule, President Vladimir Putin visited places like Paris, London, Vienna and New York.

When U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in Alaska on Friday, it will be the latest chapter in the 49th state’s long history with Russia — and with international tensions.

President Donald Trump extended a trade truce with China for another 90 days Monday, at least delaying once again a dangerous showdown between the world’s two biggest economies.

The U.S.-Russia summit in Alaska is happening at a site where East meets West in a place familiar to both countries as a Cold War front line of missile defense, radar outposts and intelligence gathering.

Chinese state media reports flash floods have left at least 10 people dead and 33 missing in Yuzhong County in China’s northwestern Gansu province.

President Donald Trump is raising eyebrows in Washington with his approach to China.

China has taken a firm stance against U.S. demands that it stop buying oil from Russia and Iran or face a possible 100% tariff.

The Associated Press has learned that the Taiwanese government has called off a plan for its president to transit through the United States on his way to Latin America.

U.S. and Chinese officials are meeting in Stockholm to discuss trade tariffs and a potential summit between their leaders.

Chinese authorities have come under criticism for withholding details about a car hitting children near a Beijing school in late June.

China's reliance on exports for economic growth will be a key topic in U.S.-China trade talks this coming week in Stockholm.

President Donald Trump says a trip to China may happen soon, hinting at efforts to stabilize U.S.-China trade relations.

The State Department says a U.S. government employee has been banned from leaving China while traveling there in a personal capacity.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has toured a panda breeding facility in the final stages of an extended state visit that has cast China as a fellow champion of a global fair trade system under threat from the United States.

Global views of China and its leader Xi Jinping have improved, while opinions of the U.S. and Donald Trump have declined.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has raised concerns with Chinese President Xi Jinping over a Chinese naval live-fire exercise near Australia.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will meet with China's leader Xi Jinping on a trip he says will focus on closer business ties.

Less than a month after extending a deadline to ban TikTok for the third time, President Donald Trump told reporters late Friday night that, “We pretty much have a deal,” on TikTok.

The BRICS bloc has criticized rising tariffs and attacks on Iran in its latest summit declaration.

President Donald Trump announced a trade deal with Vietnam Wednesday that would allow U.S. goods to enter the country duty-free.

The European Union is reassessing its ties with China strained relations with the United States.

A longtime friend of Tehran, Beijing jumped into verbal action when Israel attacked Iran nearly two weeks ago.

President Donald Trump injected some some uncertainty over whether the U.S. would abide by the mutual defense guarantees outlined in the NATO treaty as he headed to its summit.

The prime minister of New Zealand has stressed the importance of his country’s trade ties with China in a meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

New Zealand has suspended millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands over agreements the smaller Pacific nation made with China.

The military parade to mark the Army’s 250th anniversary and its convergence with President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday are combining to create a peacetime outlier in U.S. history.

Chinese state media say that the U.S. and China have agreed in principle on a framework to carry out an agreement they reached on resolving their trade disputes last month.

High-level delegations from the United States and China are meeting in London to try and shore up a fragile truce in a trade dispute that has roiled the global economy.

U.S.-China trade talks in London this week are expected to take up a series of disputes that have buffeted relations.

Senior U.S. administration officials will meet with a Chinese delegation on Monday in London for the next round of trade negotiations between Washington and Beijing, President Donald Trump said Friday.

The U.S. declined to label China a currency manipulator in a new Treasury report, but accuses Beijing of standing out among America’s major trading partners for lacking transparency.

President Donald Trump says his first conversation with Chinese leader Xi Jinping since returning to the White House had a “very positive conclusion," announcing the two countries will hold trade talks in hopes of breaking an impasse over tariffs and global supplies of rare earth minerals.

President Donald Trump said it might be better to let Ukraine and Russia “fight for a while” before pulling them apart and pursuing peace.

Wall Street’s big recent rally lost some momentum following a pair of potentially discouraging reports on the economy.

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed a new law to expand the country’s affirmative action policies.

President Donald Trump faces the challenge of convincing Republican senators, global investors, voters and even Elon Musk that he won’t bury the federal government in debt with his multitrillion-dollar tax-break package.

China has blasted the U.S. for issuing AI chip export control guidelines, stopping the sale of chip design software to China, and planning to revoke Chinese student visas.

President Donald Trump said Friday that he will no longer be “Mr. NICE GUY” with China on trade, declaring in a social media post that the country had broken an agreement with the United States.

French President Emmanuel Macron has warned the United States and a large audience of Indo-Pacific nations that they risk a dangerous double standard as they concentrate on a potential conflict with China if that shift comes at the cost of abandoning Ukraine.

Frayed by tariff wars and political battles, the academic tie between the U.S. and China is now facing its greatest threat yet as the Trump administration promises to revoke visas for an unknown number of Chinese students and tighten future visa screening.

Colombia’s government has applied to join a China-based development bank.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says he would try to urge Russian President Vladimir Putin to attend peace talks with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy this week in Turkey.

A day after China and the U.S. agreed to a 90-day truce in their tariffs stalemate, China is moving to strengthen its alliances as a counterweight to President Donald Trump's trade war.

President Donald Trump’s agreement with China to temporarily slash tariffs for 90 days offered the world a bit of welcome relief.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order meant to try to lower drug costs for American consumers.

Before high-level U.S. and Chinese officials hold talks in Switzerland this weekend to discuss high tariffs, Washington and Beijing have been in a rhetorical duel over which side reached out first.

In contrast to Russia’s celebrations marking 80 years since the surrender of the Nazis, European leaders agreed to set up a tribunal to try Russian leaders for Moscow’s war on Ukraine.

Russia has celebrated the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, with President Vladimir Putin presiding over a massive parade of tanks, missiles and troops through Red Square.

Russia and Ukraine have both reported attacks on their forces on the first day of a 72-hour ceasefire called by President Vladimir Putin.

Hardly any other country marks the end of World War II with the same fanfare and fervor as Russia, for which the victory over Nazi Germany 80 years ago remains a source of immense pride and a defining moment of history.

Russian authorities say drone attacks by Ukraine have caused flight disruption at Moscow’s main airports for a third straight day.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is hosting heads of states for festivities Friday marking the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

All four international airports around Moscow temporarily suspended flights as Russia said its forces intercepted more than 100 Ukrainian drones.

Among all U.S. allies being wooed by Beijing in its tariff stare-down with Washington, Japan stands out as a peculiar case.

Four boats have capsized in a sudden storm on a river in southwestern China, leaving 10 people dead.

Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Russia May 7–10 at President Vladimir Putin’s invitation, the Kremlin confirmed Sunday.

The CIA has released two Mandarin-language videos online designed to encourage disgruntled Chinese officials to share government secrets with America's spies.

Australians are voting Saturday in a general election that will be dominated by the soaring cost of living, the economy, energy and China.

Vietnam has celebrated the end of the war with the United States and the formation of its modern nation 50 years ago with a military parade and a focus on a future of peace.

China's leaders have shrugged off the potential impact from U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war, saying they have the tools needed to protect jobs and limit damage from higher tariffs on Chinese exports.

As President Donald Trump’s trade war locks the world’s two largest economies on a collision course, America’s unnerved allies and partners are cozying up with China to hedge their bets.

China has denied any suggestion it's in active negotiations with the administration of U_S_ President Donald Trump over tariffs, saying any notion of progress in the matter is as groundless as “trying to catch the wind.”.

State lawmakers across the U.S. have introduced at least 240 anti-China proposals this year.

U.S. stocks rallied further as better-than-expected profits for U.S. companies piled up, though CEOs say they’re unsure whether it will last because of uncertainty created by President Donald Trump’s trade war.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance has begun a four-day tour of India as the two countries seek to strengthen their partnership by negotiating a bilateral trade deal.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has capped a three-nation Southeast Asian tour in Cambodia by promoting Beijing’s reliability as the region faces U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs that threaten its export-oriented economies.

Republican and Democratic lawmakers are making their first trip to Taiwan under the new Trump administration a bipartisan one.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in Cambodia for a two-day state visit that serves as an opportunity to further strengthen already robust relations.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has told Malaysia’s leader that China will be a collaborative partner and stand with its Southeast Asian neighbors in the wake of global economic shocks.

China has appointed a new trade negotiator in the midst of its tariff fight with the United States as the world’s two largest economies steadily increase tariffs on each other’s goods.

A history scholar convicted of spying on Chinese dissidents by ingratiating himself as a sympathizer has been spared prison time by a U.S. judge.

Confusion over President Donald Trump's tariffs remains following a weekend of questions around trade in consumer electronics.

President Donald Trump says he might temporarily exempt the auto industry from tariffs he previously imposed on the sector, to give carmakers time to adjust their supply chains.

President Donald Trump’s top advisers and Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, said Monday that they had no basis for the small Central American nation to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongly deported there last month.

China’s leader Xi Jinping says no one wins in a trade war as he kicked off a diplomatic tour of Southeast Asia with a trip to Vietnam.

White House advisers and Cabinet members are trying to project confidence and calm as they defend President Donald Trump’s economic policies after another week of reeling markets that saw the Republican administration reverse course on some of its steepest tariffs.

A reordering of global trading relationships could be underway as the world’s two largest economies clash and relations spiral into a trade war.

China and the West should join in supporting multilateralism and open cooperation, Chinese President Xi Jinping has told Spain’s visiting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, underscoring China’s opposition to U.S. demands amid global economic uncertainty caused by a chaotic U.S. tariff policy.

The tariff fight between the world’s two largest economies has spiraled into greater peril.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet has presided over the opening of an expansion of his country’s main naval base, which analysts and the U.S. government suspect will be used as a strategic outpost by China.

Export manufacturing and free trade helped transform China and other Asian countries into economic powerhouses.

The death toll from Myanmar’s powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake keeps climbing amid rescue efforts.

France’s foreign affairs minister says France and China are making progress toward resolving a trade dispute over cognac imports.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged foreign investors to have faith in China's business prospects in an address to major global business leaders.

The U.S. has added dozens of companies to its export control, including more than 50 based in China that it says sought advanced knowhow in supercomputing, artificial intelligence and quantum technology for military purposes.

The Philippine defense chief has called China’s expansive claims in the South China Sea as “the biggest fiction and lie” that no Southeast Asian country will accept.

Testimony from parliamentary inquiries and other evidence shows that top Thai officials secretly decided to hand a group of Uyghur detainees over to China while denying plans to do so in public, giving the detainees and their advocates no chance to make a last-ditch appeal before they were bundled off and sent back to a country where where U.N. experts say they could face torture or other punishment.

Chinese Premier Li Qiang says Beijing and Washington should choose dialogue instead of confrontation.

U.S. Senator Steve Daines is visiting Beijing as the U.S. and China swap tariff threats and harsh words over each others’ handling of the illegal trade in fentanyl.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says U.S. tariffs on Australian steel and aluminum are unjustified, but his government will not retaliate with its own tariffs.

China has wrapped up its biggest political event of the year leaving one question unanswered: How far will it go to try to revive economic growth in 2025.

As President Donald Trump seeks to end wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, his approach to both seems to boil down to giving the stronger party what it wants and pushing the weaker to accept it.

The leaders of both Canada and Mexico got on the phone with President Donald Trump this past week to seek solutions after he slapped tariffs on their countries, but China’s president appears unlikely to make a similar call soon.

Two major speeches were delivered by two of the world’s most powerful leaders this week, on opposite sides of the planet.

Sustaining economic growth by raising domestic consumption is one of the priorities for China's government this year.

China is keeping its economic growth target at “around 5%” for 2025 despite a looming trade war with the United States and other headwinds.

Harnessing the power of artificial intelligence and shoring up the economy are among the issues expected to top the agenda when China’s legislature meets Wednesday in Beijing.

China’s annual major political event gets underway this week to endorse decisions already made by the all-powerful Chinese Communist Party.

Chinese manufacturers reported stronger orders in February as importers rushed to beat higher U.S. tariffs.