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.

Analysts see leadership’s language after central economic work conference as an admission that trade tensions are expected to endure.

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.

Retired Chinese official Li Chuanliang was recuperating from cancer on a Korean resort island when he learnt he is a fugitive. Terrified South Korea would send him back, Li fled, flew to the US on a tourist visa.

Exercise involves 2 US B-52 bombers and 6 Japan-operated fighter jets including F-35s and F-15s - Anadolu Ajansı

India said on Monday it expects China to provide assurances that Indian nationals transiting through Chinese airports will not be "selectively targeted, arbitrarily detained, or harassed," after an Indian citizen was detained at Shanghai airport last month.

China’s Commerce Ministry urged Mexico to rectify “unilateral, protectionist practices,” saying that the levies harm Chinese interests.

Analysts say the key meeting offers fresh clues about where China sees its biggest pressures as it faces up to domestic and external headwinds.

For China, President Trump’s moves to loosen chip controls, soften U.S. rhetoric and stay silent on tensions with Japan amount to a rare string of strategic gains.

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.