Volunteers carry the casket of a Chinese engineer killed in a suicide bombing in March in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. 
Opinion

Security for Chinese workers in Pakistan will always be elusive

Closeness between neighbors remains somewhat superficial

23 April 2024
Fan Yuntao, pictured here in 2018, teaches at Asia University in Tokyo.
Society

Chinese professor at Tokyo university missing after trip home

Asia University's Fan Yuntao has been unreachable, sources say

23 April 2024
Xie Feng, China's ambassador to the U.S., right, speaks with Harvard Kennedy School Dean Graham Allison at a fireside chat at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on April 19. (Embassy photo)
US-China tensions

China envoy calls on U.S. to define 'national security boundaries'

Xie Feng says talks on issues of concern should be reciprocal during Harvard visit

23 April 2024
A member of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy stands guard on the Shijiazhuang, a guided-missile destroyer, as warships are opened for public viewing to mark the Navy's upcoming 75th anniversary in Qingdao on April 20. 
Defense

East Asia military spending up 6.2% as China tensions mount, report shows

Japan marks biggest rise since 1972; data comes amid rush of regional talks, drills

22 April 2024
People's Liberation Army representatives attend the opening of China's National People's Congress in March.
Defense

China military's biggest shakeup in 9 years adds info, cyber, space units

Control of information is vital to 'winning a modern war,' Xi Jinping says

22 April 2024
A Filipino soldier practices holding a weapon as part of annual US-Philippines joint military exercises held in April 2023.
Your Week in Asia

Philippine-U.S. drills, South Korea GDP, Beijing revives auto show

Your weekly lineup of Asia's biggest business and political events

21 April 2024
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is on his third visit to Papua New Guinea. 
International relations

China's Wang Yi touts South Pacific ties in Papua New Guinea visit

Foreign minister warns against conducting power rivalry in region

21 April 2024
Filipino Marines alight at a beach in the northern province of Cagayan on March 31, 2022, during the annual Balikatan exercises with the U.S.
South China Sea

Philippines and U.S. to 'sink' ships in South China Sea drills

16,700 Filipinos and Americans to enhance interoperability in annual Balikatan exercise

20 April 2024
Foreign direct investment in China continues to decline even as the government seeks to reassure and court global companies.
Economy

China's foreign investment inflows fall 26.1% despite 'openness' vows

Officials downplay Q1 year-on-year decline as government woos investors

20 April 2024
Manasseh Sogavare, prime minsiter of the Solomon Islands, addresses the 78th Session of the U.N. General Assembly in September 2023.  
Politics

Solomon Islands' pro-China prime minister reelected to parliament

Leader's bid to remain in control of government still undecided

19 April 2024
New townhomes are seen in a subdivision in Tampa, Florida.
US-China tensions

Florida ban on Chinese buying property goes to U.S. appeals court

Law has chilling effect for Asian Americans in general, say plaintiff's supporters

19 April 2024
The flags of China and Iran fly in Tiananmen Square during a visit by Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in February 2023. China refrained from criticizing Iran's recent drone and missile attack on Israel.
Middle East crisis

China says it opposes any Israel-Iran escalation amid balancing act

Murky reports of Israeli strike underscore Beijing's economic stakes, dicey diplomacy

19 April 2024
The World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai in 2022: Today, Chinese companies are generations behind U.S. pioneers like OpenAI in generative AI.
Opinion

China's technological development has run out of steam

Country no longer best place to watch for internet innovations

19 April 2024
China Coast Guard vessels fire water cannons towards a Philippine ship on a resupply mission to Second Thomas Shoal.
South China Sea

China claims South China Sea deal with Philippines' Duterte

Manila denies saying Marcos administration cannot confirm agreement

19 April 2024
Wall Street financial institutions, including BlackRock, have steered billions of dollars into blacklisted Chinese companies via index funds, according to a congressional probe. 
Politics

Wall Street channeled billions to blacklisted China firms: U.S. probe

BlackRock and MSCI focus of congressional panel investigation

19 April 2024
Two People's Liberation Army Navy corvettes are docked at Cambodia's Ream Naval Base on April 7. (CSIS)
International relations

Chinese warships at Cambodian base for months, CSIS analysis shows

Commander of Ream base says vessels deployed to train Cambodian navy for new ships

18 April 2024
A laborer works at a Shandong Iron & Steel Group plant in Jinan, in China's Shandong province: China's steel production far outstrips that of producers elsewhere.
Materials

China steelmakers show overcapacity strain as U.S. battens import hatches

Worsening earnings push manufacturers to seek new export markets

18 April 2024
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, left, meets with Indonesian President Joko Widodo in Jakarta on April 18. (Indonesian Presidential Secretariat) 
International relations

Jokowi asks China to help build new capital's transport system

Beijing's top diplomat Wang Yi says '2+2' ministerial platform will deepen ties

18 April 2024
Xi Jinping and Joe Biden found novel diplomatic channels to send each other messages on April 10. Xi used a former Taiwanese president to carry his words, while Biden spoke up by hosting the leaders of Japan and the Philippines. (Source photos by Getty Images and Xinhua/Kyodo)
China up close

Analysis: Why Xi and Biden chose the same day to send a message on Taiwan

The wording of a 45-year-old U.S. law gives China an opening in the Taiwan Strait

18 April 2024
An Australian Army tank takes part in Super Garuda Shield multi-national military exercise in Baluran, West Java, Indonesia, on September 11, 2023. 
Defense

Australia boosts defense spending to 'transform' military

Defense minister says a more focused, integrated military force needed

17 April 2024
Surveillance cameras from Dahua Technology are displayed at an exhibition in Beijing in October 2018.
China tech

Sanctioned Chinese security camera maker Dahua divests from U.S.

Sale of last stateside unit to Taiwan group follows repeated blows in tech war

17 April 2024
Iranians carry a model of a missile during a celebration in Tehran on April 15 after the country's attack on Israel.
International relations

Iran attack on Israel stokes celebration, fears in Tehran

Missile-and-drone strike heightens worry over regional conflict

17 April 2024
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to promote a "mutually beneficial relationship based on common strategic interests" when they met in November.
International relations

Japan reboots 'mutually beneficial' China ties in new Diplomatic Bluebook

Policy slogan makes comeback for first time in 5 years as Tokyo seeks stability

17 April 2024
Chinese President Xi Jinping and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz find some common ground in talks in Beijing. (Screenshot from Chancellor Olaf Scholz's X account)
International relations

China relaxes German farm product controls in drive to win friends

Under U.S. pressure to curb exports, Beijing seeks closer ties elsewhere

16 April 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet in Beijing on April 16.
International relations

Xi tells Germany's Scholz to look at industry overcapacity 'objectively'

At meeting in Beijing, leaders hold talks on Ukraine as Mideast conflict also looms

16 April 2024