But Kenya is second to none in its enthusiasm for doing business with China.
The world’s top greenhouse gas emitters, China and the United States, have signed an agreement to work together to address climate change issues.
A Nairobi ivory bust – China’s first wildlife crime arrest – was part of a month-long, international anti-trafficking operation.
The US stressed its commitment to the defense of Japan and stability in the Asia-Pacific region against a backdrop of territorial claims by China.
China welcomed the Year of the Horse with toned down celebrations as people heeded govt pleas to go easy on firecrackers amid air pollution concerns.
A young women has been awarded a settlement of R55 000 in a Chinese court for workplace gender discrimination, but she still didn’t get the job.
Emerging markets have been hit, but not hard enough for the rest of the world to feel the burn, say analysts.
Political leaders need to get their priorities straightened out when it comes to homosexuality versus child abuse, writes Jane Raphaely.
In a country where unwed mothers have to pay a fine, attitudes are starting to liberalise.
The former president of China’s biggest bank, Yang Kaisheng, has been appointed as Standard Bank Group’s new deputy chairperson.
Sales of luxury goods grew at a lower rate than expected as China continues to clamp down on the use of watches and jewellery as bribes.
The gold price hovered near a three-week high as investors weighed up Asian demand against overall slowing investment.
China has formally approved a number of policy reforms including one easing the country’s long-standing one-child policy.
China will send its special envoy for Africa to South Sudan to help push talks and protect its oil interests.
China reported on Saturday that its spacecraft had touched down in the Sinus Iridum, or the Bay of Rainbows, on the moon.
Economic co-operation meeting fizzles as air space dispute dominates Biden’s trip to China.
China has successfully begun its first rover mission to the moon, sending a robotic craft named Jade Rabbit to trek across the lunar landscape.
Beijing wants all foreign aircraft passing through its "air defence zone" to identify themselves to Chinese authorities.
Beijing is waging a war against air pollution, one barbecue at a time.
The country’s leader seems set on implementing new ways of doing things — but at his own pace.
Chinese economic reforms, including allowing only-child parents to have more than one child, are poised to inject growth into much of the economy.
China is not considering a broad relaxation of its strict one-child policy despite an easing of existing rules since it would be too disruptive.
Small companies are struggling to find finance as China gives huge infrastructure deals precedence.
China has been granted a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council despite its record of refusing inspections by human rights monitors.
A Chinese maverick is investing billions of rands in Modderfontein, but be patient — there’s more.
Chinese authorities investigating what could be Beijing’s first major suicide attack have been searching for two men from Muslim-dominated Xinjiang.
As investors focus on current account deficits and structural weaknesses, South Africa is being seen as a less attractive emerging market.
China plans to ban HIV-positive people from spas, hot springs and public bathhouses, provoking UN condemnation and outrage from human rights groups.
The clandestine nature of many colossal and high-level deals is alarming many in the country.
Chinese police have rescued 92 children and two women kidnapped by a gang for sale.
Disgraced Chinese politician, Bo Xilai, has been convicted and and sentenced to life behind bars for corruption, embezzlement and abuse of power.
An opionion piece by Asha-Rose Migiro.