A former statistics bureau chief has gone public with his negative view of the country’s crisis-hit property sector

Manila has accused China’s coastguard of installing the barrier in a disputed region, pledging to ‘protect our maritime domains’

The bloc's trade commissioner, on a four-day trip to China, says the EU must protect itself, citing a $426bn trade deficit with Beijing

Beijing’s special climate envoy, Xie Zhenhua, will tell the COP28 climate meeting new energy sources aren’t reliable enough yet to replace coal and oil

China’s provincial governments were forced to spend billions on Xi Jinping’s zero-Covid policy and have been hit hard by the country’s property woes

China now has at least 130 large language models, accounting for 40% of the global total and just behind the US’s 50% share, with dozens of 'industry-specific LLMs' that link to a core model

The announcement came after customs data showed China had completely blocked its exports of germanium and gallium products in August

Top South Korean chipmakers Samsung and SK Hynix currently have permits to import US chip-making equipment into China, where they have extensive production facilities

Apple has seen an enthusiastic response for its iPhone 15 in China, despite moves to curb use of iPhones at some government offices and speculation it may face competition from a new Huawei model

A big fall in hydropower being generated by dams in China and India this year has forced the two Asian giants to use more coal and fossil-fuel sources

China’s blue-chip dipped 0.8%, with Hong Kong’s Hang Seng and the ASX in Sydney both tumbling 1.3%, while the BSE Sensex in Mumbai was also down 0.85%.

China’s Ministry of State Security made the claims in a report titled “Uncovering the main despicable means of cyberattacks and secret theft by US intelligence agencies”