An anchor on China's main state broadcaster, CCTV, apologizes after a video of him insulting the founder of modern China, Mao Zedong, went viral on social...
One of China's most famous television hosts has had his shows taken off air after allegedly insulting Communist China's founding father Mao Zedong, according...
Beijing, April 2, 2015 (AFP) - China protested on Thursday after two American jet fighters landed at an air base in Taiwan, which Beijing regards as its own...
Henry Kissinger, who spearheaded efforts to end Cold War hostility between Washington and China more than four decades ago, tells President Xi Jinping that...
Artist Shen Jiawei’s paintings of Chinese soldiers during the Cultural Revolution were so popular with Mao’s regime that 250,000 copies of his most famous...
Chinese authorities placed the feared ex-security chief Zhou Yongkang under formal arrest early Saturday to investigate his suspected crimes, including...
The photograph Tuesday from Beijing was as carefully arranged as a display of Ming china: Presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping discussing the world’s...
Asia is poised to enter a historical sweet spot, with three of its most populous countries – China, India and Indonesia – led by strong, dynamic and...
A giant 63-meter blue whale shark statue towers over the world’s largest aquarium, on a Chinese island being promoted as a testing ground for reforms aimed at...
The parking spaces outside a Chinese shopping mall are distinctive: marked out in pink, signposted “Respectfully reserved for women,” and around 30...
China and the U.S. launched high-level talks, with Chinese President Xi Jinping urging the world's two biggest economies to break old patterns of confrontation.
Waxworks company Madame Tussauds on Thursday launched its latest outpost in Beijing, with models of Chinese political leaders conspicuous by their absence.
Amiri Baraka, the militant man of letters and tireless agitator whose blues-based, fist-shaking poems, plays and criticism made him a provocative and...
Donald Trump finally got to see the kind of military parade he longed for. Unfortunately for him, it was in Beijing, not Washington.
In 1938, in the midst of a campaign to bring China under Communist Party rule, revolutionary leader Mao Zedong wrote: “Whoever has an army has power.”
China’s government is ratcheting up a crackdown on Christian congregations in Beijing and several provinces, destroying crosses, burning Bibles, shutting...
This month marks the centenary of one of the most important cultural and political episodes in modern Chinese history: the May Fourth Movement. On May 4,...
The savage beating of Hong Kong protesters by a mob of triad gangsters has deepened fears about the city’s notorious criminal gangs and the use of shadowy...
Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin next week in a sign of strengthening ties between the two Asian giants.
Thirty years ago last month, I was in Beijing as a British development minister for the annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank.