The Chinese and Pakistani navies are holding weeklong drills in the Arabian Sea days after the Russian Pacific Fleet and Myanmar practised repelling attacks in their first maritime exercise, while India and the United States pledged security cooperation.

A senior Chinese diplomat has urged Myanmar to “cooperate” in maintaining stability on their shared border, Beijing said yesterday, after armed groups fighting the junta seized a strategic trading outpost.

Blizzards sweeping through central Mongolia since last Friday have killed eight and left one missing, China’s official Xinhua news agency reported yesterday, citing Mongolian emergency management authorities.

China said yesterday its troops were “on constant high alert” after US and Canadian warships passed through the Taiwan Strait, their second joint passage in two months.

More than 40 Chinese warplanes were detected around Taiwan in a day, the self-ruled island’s defence ministry said yesterday.

Work on the first Chinese station in the Pacific sector began in 2018. It will be used to conduct research on the region's environment, state television reported.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the path to a meeting between President Xi Jinping and Joe Biden was “not smooth”, state media reported as the top diplomat wrapped up a rare visit to Washington.

Chinese former Premier Li Keqiang died of a heart attack yesterday, barely seven months after retiring from a decade in office during which his reformist star had dimmed.

Chinese President Xi Jinping said yesterday that China is willing to cooperate with the United States as both sides manage their differences and work together to respond to global challenges, according to Chinese state media.

China will send its youngest-ever crew of astronauts to the Tiangong space station this week, officials said Wednesday, as Beijing pursues plans for a manned mission to the Moon by the end of the decade

China yesterday removed defence minister Li Shangfu and ousted former foreign minister Qin Gang from its cabinet, state media reported, as part of a major reshuffle of its top leadership.

China's embassy in Manila said Monday it had lodged a complaint with the Philippines, after two collisions between Philippine and Chinese vessels in the disputed South China Sea

China's top spy agency said on Sunday a Chinese citizen who worked for a defense institute had been accused of spying for the United States and his case had been transferred to a court in the southwestern city of Chengdu for trial

Beijing and Manila traded blame yesterday for two collisions between Chinese vessels and Philippine boats on a resupply mission to Filipino troops on a remote outpost in the disputed South China Sea.

A US Pentagon report saying China will probably have more than 1,000 nuclear warheads by 2030 was filled with prejudice and distorts facts, and China had no intention of engaging in a nuclear arms race, its foreign ministry said yesterday.

With anger building across the Middle East over Israel’s strikes in Gaza, China and Russia are finding common cause with countries across the region in support of the Palestinians.

China is developing its nuclear arsenal faster than US projections had previously anticipated, according to a Pentagon report released yesterday

Beijing will inject over $100 billion of new funding into its Belt and Road initiative, President Xi Jinping said Wednesday at a summit marking the vast infrastructure project's tenth anniversary

The most senior EU leader expected to attend the third Belt and Road (BRI) Summit this week is Hungary’s populist Viktor Orban, who will join guests including Russia’s Vladimir Putin and a minister of the Afghan Taliban.

China has released Australian journalist Cheng Lei after more than three years in detention, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced on Wednesday, adding she was now back in Melbourne