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SANTO DOMINGO: India wants to ensure that its relations with all countries advance without seeking exclusivity, external affairs minister S Jaishankar has said as he underlined that China falls into a somewhat different category because of the curren..

HONG KONG/BEIJING: As China tries to slow its demographic decline, women like Chen Luojin could be part of the solution. The divorced 33-year-old lives in Chengdu, capital of the southwestern Sichuan province, which legalised registration of children..

Beijing said on Friday that a near-collision in the South China Sea between a Chinese coast guard ship and Philippine patrol vessel carrying journalists was caused by the latter's "premeditated and provocative action".The incident happened after..

Defence Minister Li Shangfu said conditions along the border with India are "stable overall".The remarks from Li came in a statement issued shortly after a meeting on Thursday with his Indian counterpart Rajnath Singh in New Delhi. “China and India h..

In February, two Tsinghua University students filed a lawsuit against the Ministry of Education seeking to overturn punishments they had received for distributing rainbow flags on campus. The students, identified only as Huang and Li, had marked the ..

In April, China’s internet regulator published draft provisions for governing “generative artificial intelligence” (AI) (in Chinese, 生成式人工智能). The regulations aim to ensure “healthy development and standardized application” of AI services that can cr..

Lu Shaye, China’s controversial ambassador to France, caused a diplomatic uproar over the weekend, as he implied that post-Soviet countries did not really have a right to exist in international law. “Even these ex-Soviet countries don’t have an effec..

On April 18, the second African head of state to visit China in the space of six months landed in Beijing. President Ali Bongo Ondimba of Gabon was in China for a four-day state visit, including a meeting with President Xi Jinping. That visit was pre..

BEIJING: China plans to launch an uncrewed probe around 2025 to collect samples from a near-Earth asteroid and explore a comet, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Monday, citing a senior space expert. The chief goal of the Tianwen-2 mission ..

BEIJING: China and Singapore will hold joint naval drills this week, Beijing's defense ministry said on Monday. The Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy will dispatch its frigate Yulin as well as the Chibi minesweeper for the drills, which..

BEIJING: China said on Monday it respected the "sovereign state status" of all ex-Soviet countries, after Beijing's ambassador to France sparked outrage in Europe by questioning the sovereignty of those nations. "China respects the sovereign sta..

China said on Monday it respects the sovereign state status of all ex-Soviet countries, after Beijing's ambassador to France sparked outrage in Europe by questioning the sovereignty of those nations."China respects the sovereign state status of ..