Authorities are looking into the death of the deputy head of the military's National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology after his body was found in a hotel
Links are most needed during times of tension, analysts say, as Chinese warships, jets and drones take part in live-fire drills around Taiwan and powerful US vessels lie east of Taiwan.
Chinese authorities on Saturday imposed a Covid lockdown in Sanya, a holiday resort in the south of Hainan Island, and shut its public transport system.
Beijing separately announced that it would personally sanction Nancy Pelosi and her immediate family in response to her "vicious" and "provocative" actions.
Chip fund chief Ding Wenwu is suspected of serious violations of the law, according to the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection
The Long March 2F rocket was sent into low Earth orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert, said the report
Beijing described the US Speaker's visit to Taiwan this week as "gross interference in China's internal affairs" that "seriously tramples on the one-China principle"
"We cannot and should not legitimise the use of an app which has been described by tech experts as `essentially Chinese Government spyware,`" said a letter by six politicians.
Of 132 IPOs and secondary listings on the city's stock exchange since the start of 2021, which raised some $47.6 billion, 111 are currently trading in the red, new data has shown
India's top rice-producing states of Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh have recorded a monsoon rainfall deficit of as much as 45% so far this season
China was the top buyer of US agricultural and related products in the first half of this year, according to US Census Bureau data
A surprise visit by US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan has brought back the spotlight on Taiwanese...