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The launch marks a step forward in Beijing's ambitions for a bigger space presence, including construction of a space station by 2020.

After report on Wen Jiabao's "hidden riches," Guangdong and Shanghai party bosses said officials will eventually have to declare assets.

A Paris-based think tank said China's economy will be larger than the combined eurozone economies by year's end and will overtake the US by the end of 2016.

Is China’s economic growth destined to plunge down to 3% to 4% a year, or can it be sustained in the current 7% to 8% range? China Real Time has asked heavyweight experts Michael Pettis of Peking University and ...

China reclaiming from the FDI leadership had as much to do with the fall off in FDI into the U.S. as it had to do with events in China.

It’s unlikely that many of the 60 Chinese investors who visited Madison in September had heard of the Wisconsin state capital and home of the University of Wisconsin Badgers before agreeing to visit the U.S. Similarly the city of Handan, the Chinese...

Beijing said the report that Wen's family has "controlled ... at least $2.7bn" had "ulterior motives."

Wen Jiabao's son, daughter, younger brother and brother-in-law have become extraordinarily wealthy during his leadership. 

Much touted Disney-Marvel film co-production with Beijing-based studio DMG may ring hollow.

Pushing China around like a bulked-up version of 1980s Japan doesn't fit a long-term U.S. objective: drawing China into the club of prosperous, rule-bound and democratic nations.

Official data show that consumption contributed over half of China's growth so far this year, more than investment's contribution.

Concern among Chinese officials, executives and academics is growing that U.S. attidudes toward China won't cool post-Election Day.

James Fallows' pics from inside a Chinese factory making many famous Western electronic brands.

Although the yuan rose nearly 30 percent since 2005, U.S. politicians are still taking jabs at China's currency regime.

U.S. presidential politics vilifying China obscures how deeply entwined the two countries have become. 

Tsinghua University economist Patrick Chovanec thinks China’s actual GDP growth is around four percent.

China's economic relations with U.S. could feature hotly in next Presidential debate.

One couple asks if they can own a BMW on a combined income of $2,100 a month.

Chinese demand for meat has quadrupled over 30 years and the nation now eats a quarter of the world supply.

In the midst of increasingly heated election rhetoric about China, Beijing has released some important economic data as its currency hits record highs. Both Mitt Romney and his running mate, Paul D. Ryancriticized...

Movie mogul Han Sanping soon will receive an Asia Society award even as U.S. investigators' continue to question Hollywood studios' dealings with Han's company.

Markets rose Monday on news of China's Sept. inflation falling to 1.9 percent from 2 percent in Aug. 

Oxford University breaks ground on Dickson Poon China Center, with £10 million from Hong Kong philanthropist.

The 120,000-square foot NBA Center in Tianjin port near Beijing will house basketball courts, a fitness center and a restaurant and be part of a mixed-use development with housing for 150,000.

Romney Republican running mate slams President for delaying report on currency manipulation. 

Forty-five of China’s 100 biggest fortunes slipped from last year’s FORBES ASIA Richest List. 

PM calls for talks to contain economic damage from dispute with Japan's No. 1 trade partner.

China is considering lending even more money to bail out the region’s recessionary economies.

Chinese telecomms firms painted as shady, but evidence to back up allegations is hidden in report's classified sections.

"Kung Fu Panda" creators will ramp up a partnership with Chinese state-run media funds, slowly.

China-related holdings by funds in which Mr. Romney has invested are a reminder of how he inhabits two worlds. 

By publishing "The One" as an iPhone app, China's superblogger bypassed the State Administration of Radio Film and Television.

Foxconn Technology Group, the assembler of Apple Inc. (AAPL) iPhones, had to stop production for the second time in as many weeks after factory-line workers at one of its plants protested against increased pressure.

Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies Inc. lashed out Monday at a scathing congressional report, calling allegations that it may be spying on Americans and violating U.S. laws "little more than an exercise in China-bashing."

China’s supply of solar panels has grown faster than soaring global demand, sparking a price war.

First, this was not a political move by the President to position himself as tough on China, as suggested by some. The timeline of the review through the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and the Presidential...

On the same day last week that President Obama was issuing an order blocking a Chinese company from acquiring several Oregon wind farms, the Financial Times had a fascinating story on the changing politics of the U.S...

Each year around this time, the Hurun Report, a Shanghai-based luxury publishing and events group, releases its compiled list of China’s wealthiest people. The report not only satisfies the prurient interest of those fascinated with the lifestyles...

It’s a digital disaster. With a Chinese travel crunch looming, China’s online ticketing system is quickly turning into a boondoggle of historic proportions.

Day by day, Chinese workers expect better conditions and greater guarantees that when companies go bust, the employees will not. And, yet, China permits no independent trade unions or free collective bargaining. Complaint and mediation procedures...

In a vivid display of the powers of incumbency, President Obama on Monday filed a broad new trade case against China at the World Trade Organization, announcing the action in this industrial battleground where Mitt Romney has pressed his argument...

But even in the cases where the outsourcing cost savings were significant, the idea that American wages were way out of line with Chinese wages and the only future for American workers was grinding wages lower and lower to compete with China has...

The United States on Monday filed a broad trade case against China at the World Trade Organization, alleging unfair subsidies for exports of cars and auto parts.

Another month of disappointing China trade data: on Monday, overall Chinese exports increased just 2.7 per cent in August from a year earlier, and imports dropped 2.6 per cent. Export growth was higher than July’s worrying 1 per cent, but...

Wang Tao at UBS thinks it is not really real: Well, that is what we call a bit of make-believe. Sure, the weak August data seem to have prompted more policy actions by various government agencies and we expect better&...

China's soft August trade data could presage further weakness in its key export sector in the months ahead, suggesting that the world's No. 2 economy will continue to slow.The data released Monday showed that China's external and...