China
China's security tsar warns over 'jasmine revolution'
February 21, 2011China's official in charge of the state security apparatus has warned of the need to find new ways to defuse unrest. Zhou Yongkang urged senior officials to improve "social management" and "detect conflicts and problems early on"...
China activist Chen Guangcheng 'under house arrest'
February 10, 2011One of China's most high-profile human rights activists says he is being held under house arrest. "I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one," Chen Guangcheng says in the secretly shot video, released by a US-based campaign group...
Taiwan general Lo Hsien-che held on China spy charges
February 09, 2011A Taiwanese general has been detained on suspicion of spying for China - the highest-ranking officer allegedly involved in espionage in decades. Maj Gen Lo Hsien-che was recruited by China in 2004 while he was stationed in Thailand, the defence ministry...
Hong Kong in huge cocaine seizure
January 20, 2011Customs officials in Hong Kong have seized a huge haul of cocaine worth $33.4m (£20.8m) bound for China. The 290kg (639 pounds) of cocaine were found in 88 hollowed-out planks imported from Bolivia. Officials said it was the second-largest drugs...
China steps forward, moves backward
January 20, 2011Hu Jintao’s visit to Washington comes after what can only be described as a bad year in Chinese diplomacy. Beijing has long managed its foreign relations with a laser-like focus on ensuring an advantageous environment for its economic development...
China's Hu says 'a lot to be done' on human rights
January 19, 2011Chinese President Hu Jintao has acknowledged that "a lot still needs to be done" in China over human rights. Mr Hu was speaking at a rare joint news conference with US President Barack Obama on the first full day of his state visit to the...
Top US, Chinese business leaders meet with Obama, Hu
January 19, 2011U.S. President Barack Obama has invited some of the country's top business leaders to meet with Chinese President Hu Jintao on Wednesday in an effort to help promote American exports to the world's most populous nation. Chief executives from such well...
China's President Hu Jintao to begin US state visit
January 18, 2011Chinese President Hu Jintao is expected to arrive in the US later for a four-day state visit, in a crucial meeting of the world's two biggest powers. Analysts say Mr Hu's visit is the most important by a Chinese leader in 30 years given China's growing...
US urges North Korea to get 'serious' on talks
January 13, 2011It is time for North Korea to get "serious" about negotiations for peace, the US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has said. Mr Gates was speaking in Japan, after a four-day visit to China. He said the risk of provocation leading to war between...
Robert Gates in China: Beijing seeks to ease US fears
January 10, 2011China's defence minister has sought to play down the country's military build-up, after talks with US counterpart Robert Gates in Beijing. Liang Guanglie insisted China posed no threat and was decades behind nations with more advanced technology. ...