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August 26, 2026 1:24 AM

Doval, Wang Yi Agree To Continue Work Towards Political Settlement Of India-China Boundary Question

National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval met Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi during the 25th round of the Special Representatives Talks on the India-China Boundary Question in Beijing on Tuesday, with the two sides expressing satisfaction at the steady resumption of people-to-people and cross-border exchanges, including the ongoing Kailash Manasarovar Yatra and border trade through the three designated trading passes. Doval, India’s Special Representative on the India-China Boundary Questi...

August 24, 2026 4:13 PM

NSA Ajit Doval in Beijing for 25th round of Special Representatives’ talks on India-China boundary question

National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval arrived in Beijing on Monday for a two-day visit to attend the 25th round of the Special Representatives’ (SR) talks on the India-China boundary question. Doval, who is India’s Special Representative for the boundary question, is visiting China at the invitation of Chinese Foreign Minister and Politburo member Wang Yi. The 25th round of the Special Representatives’ Talks is scheduled to be held on Tuesday, August 25. During his visit, Doval is ...

August 24, 2026 1:54 PM

Chinese humanoid robots smash human records in 100m sprint and high jump at Beijing robot games

Chinese humanoid robots broke records set by humans, including beating Usain Bolt's 100-meter sprint world record, on the opening day of the Olympics-like World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing. More than 2,000 humanoid robots were participating in the event, the organizer said. The five-day games, now in its second year, are a spectacle demonstrating China's rapid progress in advanced robotics as the technology race with the U.S. heats up, with 51 events and more than 1,000 competitions taking...

August 13, 2026 9:31 AM

Zhu Rongji, Chinese premier who cajoled economy into modern era, dies at 97

Former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, who died on Wednesday aged 97, was never one to mince his words. When the four-volume selection of his speeches came out in 2011, they shocked readers with his description of “tofu dregs” flood dykes built by “parasites”, and erring bankers labelled as “half-wits”. It was little wonder that his blunt comments from his years in power became best-sellers, finding eager readers in a nation whose then leaders were seen as wary and cautious, prone t...

May 29, 2026 1:25 PM

India, China discuss border management, cross-border cooperation at WMCC meeting

India and China held the 35th meeting of the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination (WMCC) on India-China Border Affairs in Beijing on May 27. The Indian delegation was led by Joint Secretary (East Asia) Sujit Ghosh, while the Chinese side was headed by Hou Yanqi, Director General of the Boundary and Oceanic Affairs Department of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. According to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), the discussions were constructive and forward looking. The ...

May 17, 2026 2:40 PM

‘Taiwan independence’ means we don’t belong to Beijing, president says

The expression "Taiwan independence" means the island neither belongs to nor is subordinate to Beijing and that only the Taiwanese people can decide their future, President Lai Ching-te said on Sunday. Lai's comments, a reiteration of his views, come days after President Donald Trump met his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing for a summit that raised concerns in Taiwan about U.S. backing for the island. Trump told Fox News after the summit: "We're not looking to have somebody say, 'Let'...

April 24, 2026 4:15 PM

After call from Beijing, China’s auto industry races to embed AI in just about everything

It took China 25 years to dominate the market for electric vehicles. Now, the country's auto industry is hurtling toward the next disruption: Embedding artificial intelligence in cars that will make the next generation of EVs not just network-connected, but self-reasoning machines running on Chinese chips and software. China's most recent five-year plan released earlier this year presented a blueprint for "AI Plus," a national project to embed AI systems into manufacturing, healthcare and almo...

March 18, 2026 9:36 AM

Trump postpones trip to Beijing as Iran war delays China reset

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he was postponing a highly anticipated trip to Beijing to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping as the war with Iran upends U.S. foreign policy and delays an effort to ease tensions between the world’s two biggest economies. "We are resetting the meeting," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. "We're working with China. They were fine with it." Trump had been set to travel to Beijing from March 31 to April 2 for the first trip there of his 14-month-...

October 30, 2025 12:18 PM

Trump cuts China tariffs to 47% after ‘amazing’ Xi meeting

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he had agreed to reduce tariffs on China to 47% in exchange for Beijing resuming U.S. soybean purchases, keeping rare earths exports flowing and cracking down on the illicit trade of fentanyl. His remarks after face-to-face talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping in the South Korean city of Busan, their first since 2019, marked the finale of Trump's whirlwind Asia trip on which he also touted trade breakthroughs with South Korea, Japan and Southeast ...

July 29, 2025 9:09 AM

Thirty dead in Beijing following heavy rain, Xinhua reports

Thirty people were killed in Beijing as of midnight on Monday as as almost a year's worth of rain hit the capital in a matter of days, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday. The deaths were reported in Beijing's mountainous northern districts, with 28 in Miyun and two in Yanqing. State media did not specify when or how the deaths occurred. Heavy rain started last Wednesday and intensified around Beijing and surrounding provinces on Monday, with the capital getting ra...