Tag: China

China’s ancient history has been inspiring travellers since the days of Marco Polo. Beijing’s Hall of Supreme Harmony, where Ming and Qing Dynasty emperors hosted their enthronement and wedding ceremonies, ...

What if American political reporters covered the Chinese horse race? It was a tense moment in the private room at the back of Vice President Xi Jinping's campaign bus. The ...

As the United States draws down in Afghanistan, China is finally moving in. Until recently, Beijing's policy in Afghanistan could be characterized as masterful inactivity: It sat on the sidelines ...

Turkish PM and Egypt's new president call on Russia, China, and Iran to stop backing Assad regime; Erdogan says Turkey determined to speak out against Israel's 'state terrorism.' Turkey and ...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called on Russia, China and Iran, key supporters of Syria's embattled President Bashar al-Assad in his 19-month struggle to crush an uprising against ...

Thirty years ago, a young government official with a plum job in Beijing made an odd request: reassignment to a poor rural area.  At the time, millions of young people ...

Disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai has been expelled from the Communist Party and will "face justice", state media said on Friday. The announcement follows intense speculation on the fate of ...

Japanese and Taiwanese coastguard ships exhange water cannons in the East China Sea, complicating a territorial dispute that has already strain Japan-China ties Coastguard vessels from Japan and Taiwan clashed ...

China’s ruling Communist Party took a big step towards sealing the fate of fallen politician Bo Xilai yesterday, when a court jailed his former police chief for 15 years over ...

19 mineworkers were killed and twenty-eight are missing in China after a gas explosion in a coal shaft, the Xinhua news agency told on Thursday, noticing one of the greatest ...