BEIJING, March 8 ― China’s national legislature began deliberating Thursday on a landmark law that would provide legal protections for private property as well as a law that would gradually equalize corporate taxes on foreign and domestic …

BEIJING: Prime Minister Wen Jiabao of China crossed swords Monday with President Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan, rejecting any step toward independence for the island a day after Chen said it should be a separate country.In a speech at the openi…

The foreign ministry said the deal would harm peace and stability in the region and damage China-US relations.The US defence department this week told Congress it planned to sell $421m (£216m) worth of missiles to Taiwan.China sees Taiwan …

LONDON: U.S. stocks plummeted Tuesday as concerns that the Chinese and American economies were cooling and fears that shares were overvalued sparked a global market decline.At one point the Dow industrial average was down more than 546 poi…

NIXON AND MAO The Week That Changed the World. By Margaret MacMillan. Even as he was celebrating that triumph, the new chief executive and his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, were planning a comparably dramatic giant leap in di…

On the plains of northern China, the Emperor Kublai Khan built a stately pleasure dome at Xanadu. High on the Himalayan plateau in Tibet's capital, Lhasa, today's Chinese have Sunny Island.This development zone, overlooked by the Potala Pa…

By JAGDISH BHAGWATI Published: February 18, 2007 Signs of looming difficulties are not hard to find. Standard economic analyses indicate that China is likely to face problems with its exchange-rate policy, its financial sector and the inef…

The Chinese leader urged Khartoum, behind closed doors, to solve the crisis and pursue dialogue with rebel groups. But no public statement was made. Zhang Dong, China's ambassador to Khartoum, told Xinhua news agency on Thursday that China…