China’s new leaders will soon reveal themselves in a piece of political theatre critics say is out of step with a fast-modernising society.
China has sounded the alarm about the state of the global economy and urged countries gathering at an Asia-Pacific summit to protect themselves.
President Jacob Zuma will lead a delegation to Beijing, China, after being invited by its president Hu Jintao.
Leaders of the emerging world will discuss the creation of a new development bank at a summit shadowed by protests against the Chinese president.
The US and China have agreed to coordinate their response if North Korea goes through with a planned rocket launch next month.
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/ 17 November 2011
Italian clothes company Benetton has pulled a photo montage showing the pope kissing a leading imam from its new global ad campaign, Unhate.
Beijing fears a policy of encirclement as US President Barack Obama announces plans to begin stationing 2 500 troops in northern Australia.
Sparking speculation about a leadership transition due in China next year, Chinese media has denied former president Jiang Zemin has died.
Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted on genocide charges, was given a red-carpet welcome on Wednesday by Chinese President Hu Jintao.
Sudan leader Omar al-Bashir, wanted for war crimes, arrived in Beijing early on Tuesday to meet China’s President Hu Jintao.
The US has promised it was not seeking to halt China’s rise, but nevertheless said human rights and economic reforms would serve Beijing’s interests.
The red carpet is out for the Chinese president — a far cry from a miserable working lunch.
Chinese media praised President Hu Jintao’s visit to the United States on Friday as a diplomatic "masterstroke" in easing tensions.
United States President Barack Obama delivered a strong message on US concerns over Beijing’s human rights record at a summit on Wednesday.
China and the US talked on Wednesday about China’s yuan currency being undervalued, militaries and discourse between China and the Dalai Lama.
US President Barack Obama came under increasing pressure on Tuesday to publicly speak out against Beijing’s harsh treatment of dissidents.
US-China relations are at a critical juncture and a summit between their leaders next week must produce "real action, on real issues".
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/ 13 January 2011
China said it will be "difficult" for its ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency to tour Iran’s nuclear facilities.
President Jacob Zuma met his Chinese counterpart on Tuesday for talks aimed at broadening the relationship between Beijing and SA.
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/ 18 November 2009
Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao mostly lauded the increased cooperation between their countries at a meeting this week.
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/ 22 September 2009
China and the US will seek to revive stalled negotiations on a new pact to combat global warming at a UN summit on Tuesday.
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/ 16 February 2009
The impact of the economic crisis is deepening and will hit developing nations particularly hard, Chinese President Hu Jintao warned on Monday.
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/ 12 February 2009
China, Africa’s biggest emerging market partner, will overcome the economic crisis and resume its march into mining and infrastructure investments.
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/ 10 February 2009
China’s quest to show it is a responsible power moves to Africa, where President Hu Jintao will seek to both reassure and temper hopes.
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/ 21 November 2008
US President George W Bush may be a lame duck, but protesters and aspiring US rivals are still dogging him with a passion on his last foreign trip.
Parents, grieving and angry at the deaths of their children under a collapsed school, kept a poignant vigil at the ruins of the building on Tuesday, demanding that those responsible be brought to justice. In the tiny farming town of Wufu, nearly every building withstood the May 12 earthquake — except the three-storey Fuxin Number Two Primary School.
Chinese medical teams have fanned out across the earthquake zone, disinfecting makeshift camps and educating survivors, and on Monday the Health Ministry said it could guarantee there would be no epidemics. Where bodies could not be cremated, they had been been buried deep underground and far from water sources to prevent contamination
From tent cities in stricken Sichuan province to Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, sirens wailed and millions of Chinese stood for three minutes on Monday to mourn tens of thousands who died in last week’s earthquake. The moment was observed across the vast country of 1,3-billion people at 2.28pm local time, exactly a week after the quake struck.
Earthquake’s don’t destroy strong, well-built buildings. They destroy weak ones. As China reels from its biggest earthquake in 30 years, public anger is mounting. The danger for the Communist government is obvious. China is earthquake prone, Sichuan in particular experiencing a similar scale earthquake in 1933.
A Chinese lake damaged by an earthquake may be about to burst its banks, state media said on Saturday, as President Hu Jintao headed for the epicentre with the death toll expected to rise to 50 000. Meanwhile, survivors were found on Saturday, five days after the disaster, including a German tourist who was pulled from the rubble.
China struggled to bury its dead and help tens of thousands of injured and homeless on Friday when a powerful aftershock brought new havoc four days after an earthquake thought to have killed more than 50 000 people. Anger has focused on the state of school buildings, many of which crumpled in Monday’s 7,9-magnitude quake.
A massive earthquake stunned south-west China on Monday, killing more than 8 000 people and flattening schools, factories and homes in a powerful tremor that was felt across a swathe of South-East Asia. The quake, with a magnitude of 7,8, struck close to densely populated areas of Sichuan province in what Premier Wen Jiabao called a ”major disaster”.