By AFPUS President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed at their first summit in a year on Wednesday to restore military communications between the two countries, even as Biden went off script by saying he still considered Xi a "dictator...

China's top diplomat Wang Yi said Saturday that Washington should "play a constructive and responsible role" in the Israel-Gaza conflict, during a phone call with his US counterpart Antony Blinken."The United States should practically play a construc...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks to forge consensus Saturday on a host of contentious issues from Ukraine to climate change, as G20 leaders hold their annual summit in New Delhi.Divided over Russia's war in Ukraine and gridlocked on finding...

Global stocks saw a mixed day of trading Friday as investors contemplated the prospect that interest rates could remain higher for longer and on concerns over China's economy.Stocks on Wall Street finished largely flat as investors snapped up more at...

France's finance minister said during a visit to Beijing on Sunday that cutting all economic ties with China was "an illusion", as some Western countries question their reliance on the Asian giant."We are totally opposed to the idea of decoupling. De...

Asian markets mostly rose Wednesday following a Wall Street rally as investors grow increasingly optimistic that the Federal Reserve will soon end its interest rate hiking cycle and the US economy will avoid a feared recession.Another batch of foreca...

China's top diplomat urged India to focus on "common interests" and meet China "halfway" to defuse border tensions between Asia's most populous neighbours, the Chinese foreign ministry said Saturday.Relations between India and China have deteriorated...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday freedom of navigation must be preserved in the South and East China Seas, calling for the status quo to remain in place in the Taiwan Strait where China has held drills around self-ruled Taiwan."We mus...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Friday that the United States is seeking "healthy" not "winner-take-all" competition, in a visit to Beijing packed with talks aimed at stabilising fraught ties.Yellen's four-day trip is...

Hong Kong's legislature voted unanimously on Thursday to cut the number of elected seats in local councils, a move meant to prevent opposition figures from repeating their landslide win in 2019.Beijing has cracked down on dissent in the finance hub s...

Equity markets sank Wednesday as another round of data showed China's economy continued to struggle in June, with little hope that its leaders can unveil the blockbuster stimulus needed to kickstart growth.With Wall Street closed on the Independence...

US intelligence warned companies operating in China Friday over the impact of Beijing's new counter-espionage law coming into force on July 1.The National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) said the law, which aims to protect China's nati...