China’s CSI 300 and Hang Seng slid as slowing consumption and housing stress offset policy easing signals, keeping the near-term equity outlook cautious.

Retired Chinese official Li Chuanliang fled to the U.S. seeking asylum, fearing persecution from the Chinese government. He was warned not to return to China after being accused of corruption.

The authorities have made their example of him: It wasn’t enough to sentence him to five years on utterly phony fraud charges in 2022; to drive their point home, they’ve also convicted him of conspiracy to publish seditious articles and similar charges under the so-called national-security law Beijing ginned up in 2020 to quash dissent.

The Chinese government is using an increasingly powerful tool to control and monitor its own officials: Surveillance technology, much of it originating in the United States, an Associated Press investigation has found.

BEIJING, Dec 15 (Reuters) - China's factory output and retail sales grew at their weakest pace in over a year in November, compounding challenges for policymakers who are struggling to find fresh ways to keep the $19 trillion economy humming.

In addition to their week-long trip, students also took part in shorter excursions linked to their classes about once a week. Given the availability of high-speed rail and air travel, Beijing is easily accessible from a variety of cities, such as Nanjing, Suzhou and Shanghai, which Herrick and McGeehin visited over the quarter.

On December 11, Dior opened its most ambitious retail project in China to date: the House of Dior Beijing, a five-story sculptural flagship in Sanlitun, the capital’s cultural and luxury retail hub.

Japan has scrambled jets to monitor Russian and Chinese air forces conducting joint patrols around the country, the Japanese defense ministry said late Tuesday, amid rising tensions between Tokyo and Beijing.

The government has been revealed on the 15th to be pushing forward with a "K-pop concert" in China next month featuring a large number of domestic singers. This comes as President Lee Jae-myung has expressed hope for an early visit to Beijing,

MANILA, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro on Tuesday denounced what he described as "dangerous" and "inhumane" actions by Chinese maritime forces against Filipino fishermen in a contested South China Sea shoal last week.

Mexico’s senate approved a bill Wednesday to raise tariffs to as high as 50% on cars, steel and other goods from China and other Asian countries with which it lacks a trade agreement. Mexico has become a major destination for Chinese-made vehicles, which account for almost one-third of the estimated 1.6 million units sold in Mexico this year.