Foreign Relations

The National Security Council is conducting a review of the White House’s China policy — taking into account Mr. Trump’s populist trade agenda and differences over how to curb the rogue government in North Korea. Aside from Mr. Trump himself, it...

India and China have withdrawn troops from a disputed Himalayan region on the border with China, foreign ministries from the two countries announced Monday, defusing a tense standoff that had threatened to provoke armed conflict between the nuclear-...

Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi’s decision to make Africa his first stop on a five-nation tour in early January highlights the importance China places on its relations with Africa.

A senior Chinese diplomat had a brief meeting with President Donald Trump while at the White House for talks with the president's advisers

Report says ties between the two nuclear-armed countries could deteriorate into an economic or military confrontation. 

A top Chinese judge has branded President Donald Trump a bully and “enemy of the rule of law” for attacking the US judiciary as China revels in the upheaval gripping the world’s leading democracy. 

There would be no winner from conflict between China and the United States, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned on Tuesday, seeking to dampen tension between the two nations that flared after the election of U.S. President Donald Trump. 

Called “U.S. Policy Toward China: Recommendations for a New Administration,” the bipartisan report, produced by an 18-member panel.

Two weeks into his presidency, Donald Trump has spoken with 18 foreign heads-of-state, either by phone or in person. Xi Jinping’s name is conspicuously missing.

Customs chief says the enforcement action was based on Hong Kong law and also claims Singapore’s government was never a target for investigation

China said on Tuesday it hopes Mongolia has learned a lesson and will keep a promise not to invite the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama again after his visit in November led to a chill in relations.

Trump's golden quiff has appeared on a 23-foot tall rooster statue outside a shopping mall in the northern Chinese city of Taiyuan

Beijing suspended its relationship with São Tomé in 1997 after the African island nation established diplomatic ties with Taiwan

No relationship is more vital to international stability than that between the United States and China, but now there are dangerous new uncertainties

Beijing considers retaliatory steps after Trump appoints China trade skeptic Peter Navarro

The President-elect has shown that his instinct is to turn the world’s significant bilateral relationships into frighteningly spectacular reality TV

Peter Navarro has been picked to lead US trade and industrial policy – a move that may upset Beijing

A Chinese vessel returned the submersible drone to a United States Navy ship in international waters off the Philippines, near where it was taken

"Trump is not behaving as a President who will become master of the White House in a month"

The episode threatens to increase tensions in a region already fraught with great-power rivalries

The drone incident has raised fresh concerns about China's increased military presence and aggressive posture in the energy-rich South China Sea

President-elect makes spelling error in belligerent early morning tweet; China says ‘hyping up’ of issue is not helpful but agrees return of vehicle

President warns successor to think through the consequences of his actions

Both came to power vowing to restore their nations to greatness...but that's where the similarities end

U.S., China militaries in smooth communication over drone, Chinese Foreign Ministry says

China’s increasingly rough-handed and assertive foreign policy towards its neighbors is raising India’s diplomatic and economic clout in the region

Trump will have close ties to Moscow via its Secretary of State, but relations with Beijing are frosty. Could Sino-Russian ties be under threat?

China has upset Western countries by sending undercover agents to try and get suspects back, although it says it has changed tactics after complaints

Why the global order is becoming ever more uncertain

Could the first foreign crisis of a potential Clinton presidency come not in the Middle East or with Russia, but in northeast Asia?

‘It doesn’t matter it will hurt me or not – do what you think is right’: artist says Beijing has axed rule of law for anyone with contrary political views

If its economy keeps on growing, China's sheer size, wealth and military reach may make a kind of Pax Sinica in the region inevitable

Beijing will soon discover that Manila’s affections can be fickle

Having sanctioned thousands of extrajudicial killings, Duterte says his visit to China is “the defining moment of my presidency”

Can a country doing business all over the world really avoid other peoples' politics?

The Philippines president is visiting China, but whether his focus is on building relations or his country’s infrastructure remains to be seen

US presidential candidate’s high-profile advocacy of human rights has riled leaders in Beijing

According to a PEW Research Center survey, Chinese perceive the U.S. as a greater threat than the economic downturn, climate change, or ISIS

Talks involve restrictions on coal, iron ore and crude oil

Is the pivot away from the U.S. and towards China real, or is Manila just trying to play the two superpowers against each other?

As China steps up its commitment to U.N. peacekeeping, Beijing is said to be eyeing a leadership role — with potentially troubling human rights implications

It says China has “terrible problems” but is peace-loving and affluent.

Director at Tsinghua University advocates "moral realism" as China challenges the US for world leadership.

Though all countries have an interest in region peace and stability says China's Defense Ministry, it declines to confirm Djibouti military base.

At Asia’s biggest rail cargo base in Chengdu in south-west China, the cranes are hard at work, swinging containers from trucks onto a freight train. The containers are filled with computers, clothes, even cars.

China wants to make World War Two a key part of a trip by President Xi Jinping to Germany next month, much to Berlin’s discomfort as Beijing tries to use German atonement for its wartime past to embarrass Japan.

The meeting was seen as helpful in clearing up misunderstanding, but nothing in the way of significant progress. 

To understand how Second Thomas Shoal could become contested ground is to enter into a morass of competing historical, territorial and even moral claims in an area where defining what is true or fair may be no easier than it has proved to...

China will send its special envoy on North Korea to the United States next week for talks on maintaining peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula, the foreign ministry said on Friday.   

America is not the only great power struggling with how to handle the future of foreigners in its midst. As the Supreme Court indicated in its mixed decision Monday on Arizona’s immigration-enforcement law, the question of how we regard those who...