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By Antoni Slodkowski and Laurie Chen BEIJING (Reuters) - What a difference eight months makes: In March, shortly after the U.S. shot down a suspected ...

If Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida meets Chinese President Xi Jinping for the first time in a year later this week, he will likely raise the case of a detained company executive that has dealt...

If Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida meets Chinese President Xi Jinping for the first time in a year later this week, he will likely raise the case of a detained company executive that has dealt an outsized blow to their close economic ties. The employee of drugmaker Astellas Pharma, as well as other Japanese imprisoned or under criminal probes in China, would probably be among the topics to be discussed as plans take shape for the leaders to talk on the sidelines of the APEC summit in San ...

By Yukiko Toyoda, Kiyoshi Takenaka and Laurie Chen TOKYO/BEIJING (Reuters) - If Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida meets Chinese President Xi Jinpi...

When Chinas largest developer Country Garden first skipped debt payments in August, its shares tumbled 14%, marking a reversal of fortunes: from industry poster child to another troubled property...

China's State Council, which is headed by Premier Li Qiang, has instructed the local government of Guangdong province, where both companies are based, to help arrange a rescue of Country Garden by Ping An, said two of the sources who have direct knowledge of the matter. A spokesperson for Ping An said the company had not been approached by the government and denied the information reported by Reuters.

Chinese authorities have asked Ping An Insurance Group to take a controlling stake in embattled Country Garden, the nations biggest private property developer, four people familiar with the plan...

BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese President Xi Jinping warned against decoupling from China as he opened the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) forum in Beijing on Wednesday, criticizing Western efforts to reduce dependence on the Chinese economy. Representatives of more than 130 countries, largely from the Global South, attended the forum including several heads of state, of whom the most prominent was Xi's "dear friend" Russian President Vladimir Putin.

When China launched its Belt and Road Initiative 10 years ago, it touted huge infrastructure spending linking it with Western Europe, which as recently as 2019, Britains then-finance minister said...

China has said it would "look into" appointing a senior official responsible for the fentanyl issue that has become a major sticking point in U.S.-China relations, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said in Beijing on Tuesday. "I asked Xi to appoint a senior official on the China side and we would appoint a senior official" on fentanyl, Schumer told journalists at the Beijing residence of the U.S. Ambassador to China, Nicholas Burns.