China will take steps to revive consumption by boosting people’s incomes, according to the official Xinhua News Agency, as part of a plan that adds to recent pledges by the government to support ...

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Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. China’s annual Congress ends with questions over how to revive its slowing economy, AP explains A Chinese ...

Xi Jinping wants China to surpass rivals as a tech superpower, undeterred by economic woes or trade wars. Critics ask if this focus neglects struggling citizens. By Chris Buckley Throughout China ...

This article was originally published in Rest of World, which covers technology’s impact outside the West. After US President Donald Trump issued an executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico ...

BEIJING — As President Donald Trump gave a fiery and divisive speech to a joint session of Congress last week, a much more staid political event was underway on the other side of the world.

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As US President Donald Trump ratcheted up economic pressure on China over the past week, Beijing sent back its own message: Its rise won’t be interrupted. A major political meeting taking place ...

BEIJING, March 9 (Reuters) - China's property sector is showing positive changes and market confidence is improving, its housing minister said on Sunday, as policymakers try to set a more ...

Jeffrey Wasserstrom is chancellor's professor of history at University of California, Irvine and the author of The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia's Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing, a short ...

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