There were strong noises on reform from China’s premier Li Keqiang last week, when he said the government would simplify bureaucracy to encoura(...)

A German national flag  in front of solar panels in Bad Hersfeld. Photograph:  Lisi Niesner/Reuters

Germany’s vice-chancellor and economy minister put Berlin on a collision course with Brussels by warning that imposing anti-dumping duties on s(...)

Song Zhengqiong, holding her daughter, cries in front of her damaged house after the  earthquake at Longmen village in Lushan county. Reuters/Jason Lee

Rescue workers struggled along narrow roads, many of them blocked by landslides, to reach villages devastated by a powerful ea(...)

Rescuers try to remove rocks blocking a road after a strong earthquake in China’s Sichuan province. Photograph: Reuters

A powerful earthquake has killed 157 people, injured thousands and left many trapped in the hills of rural Sichuan province in China's southwest, n(...)

A chicken farm in Changfeng county, Anhui province. Poultry is off the menu in many restaurants in China. Photograph: Reuters

Chinese health authorities are examining the possibility of human-to-human transmission within a family of a new strain of bird flu that has in(...)

US secretary of state John Kerry wants China to take a more active stance against North Korea. Photograph:  Paul J. Richards/Reuters

The United States and China have today agreed to make a joint effort to push for the peaceful denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula, foll(...)

Chinese president Xi Jinpin told the annual forum in Boao, on the southern Chinese island province of Hainan, that  protectionism was on the rise internationally. Photograph: Reuters/Alexander F Yuan

China’s new president, Xi Jinping, promised that change and peaceful development would power his country’s economic rise and sustain growth wit(...)

The Chinese Communist Party installed Li Keqiang as premier yesterday. The new second in command will be the public fac(...)

Karl Marx described the imperative of capitalism as “accumulate, accumulate”, but his soi-disant followers in the People’s Republic of China ar(...)

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