BEIJING  – China dismissed as “speculation” on Monday complaints in New Delhi that its troops had crossed into Indian territory and set up a camp in a remote disputed area of the Himalayas. The Indian government claimed at [...]

Beijing is accusing the United States of spying on its own citizens, discriminating against women and ethnic minorities, and allowing gun crime to run out of control. The accusations were made Sunday in Beijing’s annual response to Washington’s [...]

BEIJING — Rescue teams in southwestern China continue to search for survivors of Saturday’s earthquake, despite heavy rainstorms that have hampered the effort to reach victims. A massive search and rescue effort is underway in Sichuan [...]

Chinese state media say the death toll from a powerful earthquake that struck the western region of Sichuan Saturday morning has climbed to at least 71 people, with about 600 injured China’s official Xinhua news agency said that the death [...]

BEIJING — The World Health Organization representative in China says there is no sign that a new strain of bird flu is spreading easily from person to person. But authorities say much is still to be learned about the disease that has infected [...]

BEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping has offered condolences to the family of a Chinese graduate student who was killed in the attack on the Boston Marathon and to another student who was gravely injured, the Xinhua news agency said on Thursday. Xi [...]

China is accusing Japan of increasing tensions over a groups of disputed islands. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying Thursday called on Japan to stop scrambling fighter jets over the East China Sea. The spokesperson said, “We believe [...]

A top health official in China says it is possible that a deadly, new strain of bird flu could spread among humans, but cautioned there is no reason to fear a widespread pandemic. Feng Zijian, a director at the Chinese Center for Disease Control [...]

BEIJING — China has released a report on its military strength that says U.S. efforts to rebalance its presence to Asia are adding to tensions in the region. The defense white paper says China faces multiple, complicated security threats and [...]

China has reported two cases of bird flu in a new province, west of the area where the disease has been centered. The state Xinhua news agency said that the two human cases were reported Sunday in central Henan province. Until Saturday, when [...]