Four Chinese suppliers were offering to print up to one million counterfeit Royal Mail stamps a week

Minister says he will work with business to investigate, while china dismisses suggestion of state role as ‘absurd’

Increase of 2% last year driven by plant expansion in china and slowdown in US and Europe closures

Tokyo and Washington have struck 70 pacts on defence cooperation during Japanese PM’s White House state visit

Chinese leader using meeting with Ma Ying-jeou to promote peaceful ‘reunion’ as only alternative to annexation, say analysts

Fitch cut to negative comes as country moves away from reliance on growth from property sector

 

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Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, a longstanding aide to Vladimir Putin, says Kremlin ties to china are at an all time high

Australia, UK and US say they want to support regional stability and security but china ‘gravely concerned’

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and her team are returning to Washington after a visit to china where they tried to tackle the biggest economic issues between the countries

Suspects, all under 14 at time, are accused of bullying classmate over long period before killing him in Hebei last month

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is making an official visit to the United States this week

The West’s enemies are working more closely as an “alliance of authoritarian powers” including Russia, Iran and china, Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg has warned. Mr Stoltenberg has described growing links between the three countries and North Kore ...

Country needs to speed up environmental response to protect its ageing population, multinational study finds

Beijing did a test run in Taiwan using AI-generated content to influence voters away from a pro-sovereignty candidate

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is heading to a china that is determined to avoid open conflict with the United States

Investor points finger at CEO’s antics on X, but analysts say ‘train wreck’ quarter more down to problems in china and with EV demand

Houses are on the brink of collapse with many destroyed after the strongest earthquake in a quarter of a century hit Taiwan. At least four people have been killed and over 50 injured after the earthquake struck at around 7.58am local time on Wednesda ...

Watch a live view of Taipei after a deadly earthquake rocked the entire island early on Wednesday, 3 April, collapsing buildings and creating a tsunami that washed ashore on southern Japanese islands.