The summit ended as it started – with Donald Trump raining lavish praise on his guest. The meeting was one of ‘Friendship, Strength and Success’ he boasted on Truth Social. It had been ‘very productiv...

Xi also served up some pandas – two of them, to be sent to Atlanta Zoo ‘in a few days’ as an ‘envoy of friendship’.

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A 20-year-old Chinese researcher dressed in a red crayfish costume has become a symbol of Beijing’s ambition. At a scientific conference in Paris last fall, he explained that he was working on an important project. His plans would enable his country’s astronauts to prepare spicy crayfish soup, a Chinese favorite, on Mars. “That’s what we’re

When President Xi Jinping launched the plan in 2015, China was ranked 81st in the world. It now ranks 91st. During the qualification stages for the current World Cup, it lost 7-0 to arch rival Japan.

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Xi is calculating that a global rush for energy security will shift China’s vast surplus of heavily subsidised renewable technologies.

Last year, Trump scaled back tariffs and abandoned other restrictions on Chinese companies after Beijing weaponised rare earths.

Starmer told Xi it was time for a ‘more sophisticated’ relationship, yet there is very little sign of that in his excruciating performance in China.

Keir Starmer is stepping up 'Operation Kowtow', his reckless bid to cosy up to China- at the worst possible moment for Britain's national security.

China’s naked weaponisation of rare earths brings to mind Mao Zedong’s ‘four pests’ campaign, the old tyrant’s fanatical effort to exterminate all flies, mosquitoes, rats and sparrows, which turned in...

Chinese officials see Trump as volatile and unpredictable; there is deep scepticism in Washington that China will stick to any agreement.

The antics of Keir Starmer and his top security adviser over the collapsed China espionage case bring to mind the slapstick British movie Carry On Spying – which is precisely the message it will have ...

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Its tech sector is resurgent and the president says it is heading for ‘high-quality growth’ but his obsession with control may strangle innovation

The mimic octopus is a remarkable creature. It is the world’s master at shapeshifting. It is able to transform its appearance into that of more than 15 different aquatic animals, depending on the need...

It is generally agreed that Britain needs to improve its China capabilities. But what happens when institutions responsible for building those capabilities are compromised by the Chinese Communist Par...

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Somewhere in the bowels of the Foreign Office, civil servants are still working on the government’s ‘China audit’. The report was commissioned by the new Labour government to ‘assess trade-offs in the...

Shanghai port is the busiest in the world. Activity there is closely monitored by financial analysts distrustful of official statistics and looking for clues as to what is really happening in the worl...

There are signs that these countries are already growing wary of Beijing’s investment and the dumping of Chinese-made goods more broadly.

After three decades of record-breaking growth, at about the same time as Xi Jinping rose to power in 2012, China’s economy started the long decline to its current state of stagnation. The Chinese Comm...

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In the fight against climate change, China loves to present itself as the world’s White Knight. Armed with wind turbines and solar panels, EVs and batteries, it will rescue us from oblivion if only we...

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From Vietnam to Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore, Chinese companies are shifting some manufacturing to southeast Asia

Keir Starmer and his ministers, including Chancellor Rachel Reeves, appear to be competing to see who can kowtow the lowest before China's Xi

The Chinese communist party claims to know a thing or two about humiliation – the ‘century of humiliation’ at the hands of rapacious foreigners is a founding myth of the CCP, which presents itself as ...

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The US Treasury revealed that it had become the victim of a ‘major cybersecurity incident’, which it blamed on Chinese hackers.

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The issue of the enhanced tier, and the designation of China as a threat, is now becoming a key test of government backbone.

By one estimate, Chinese military exercises close to Taiwan this week were the largest since 1996, when Beijing attempted unsuccessfully to disrupt the island’s first fully democratic presidential ele...

An investigation by Newsweek identifies hundreds of groups in Britain tied to the Chinese Communist Party. Many work to deepen Beijing's influence worldwide.

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Russia and Iran kept Bashar al-Assad in power and are the biggest strategic losers from the toppling of his brutal regime. But also spare a thought for Xi Jinping, who used the dubious ‘stability’ imp...

In recent months, a purge of top generals has shaken China’s Rocket Force, the most secretive and sensitive branch of China’s military.

US officials say probe is part of wider operation to uncover graft in People’s Liberation Army

In one Chinese research paper into prostate cancer, 50 per cent of the patients named were women – who do not have prostate glands.

In one Chinese research paper into prostate cancer, 50 per cent of the patients named were women – who do not have prostate glands.