Chinese banks are struggling to comply with new Beijing guidelines to boost consumer credit as they reel from a surge of defaults on personal loans and have a hard time finding households in good financial shape that want to borrow.

Japan and China have ongoing disputes over energy exploration and the sovereignty of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea.

Chinese traders are pulling back from the dollar, helping ease a shortage that has rattled the banking system and setting the yuan up for further gains.

As China's sluggish economy pushes local authorities to cut salaries and bonuses, one southern province has told officials they can pursue side jobs, saying it is OK to be a part-time driver, novelist or fitness coach.

Membership in the Chinese Communist Party has become a sticking point for the Trump administration. But many join for professional over political reasons.

Italian authorities have arrested a Chinese man accused by US prosecutors of being part of a hacking team that stole coveted US research into a coronavirus vaccine on behalf of Chinese intelligence.

Taeil, a former member of the popular boy band NCT, and two acquaintances were jailed in a case that has provoked anger in South Korea.

Chinese restaurant Jincheng Alley wants to open a branch in a ground-floor commercial unit at the new Forbes Apartments, part of the Royal Arsenal Riverside development in Woolwich. Kitty Luan, the owner and operator of Jincheng, applied to Greenwich Council for a premises licence, which would include the sale of alcohol and playing of music.

The past few years have shown investors that they should expect the unexpected in geopolitics. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the widespread conflict in the Middle East were probably not the base-case forecasts for scenario planning for many.