China and the US on Friday appeared to have found a way out of a messy diplomatic row, with Beijing agreeing to let a blind Chinese dissident at the centre of the crisis to leave the country and Washi

Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng says he wants to leave for the United States rather than stay in China, throwing into doubt a deal used to coax him out of the U.S. embassy in Beijing and defus

China has dispatched two of its maritime security vessels to patrol the waters of disputed islands in the Pacific Ocean, amid attempts by Japanese politicians to buy land there.

China's fishery admi

US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Thursday urged China to allow further appreciation of its yuan currency against the dollar at the start of talks between the world's two biggest economies.

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The rural Chinese activist at the centre of a diplomatic standoff between Washington and Beijing now wants to leave China with his family, a U.S. spokeswoman said.

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A Chinese student was arrested after he tried to smuggle 59 iPads into Shanghai from Australia, on the same day the company put its new tablet computers on sale.

The student, whose name and age were

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Beijing on Wednesday for talks with Chinese leaders that risk being overshadowed by the case of an activist said to be under US protection.

Her visit

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in China on Wednesday for top-level talks that risk being upstaged by the fate of a blind dissident whose supporters say is under U.S. protection in Beijing

More than 1,000 tourists, who were stranded on a highway in central China because of landslides, were evacuated early on Wednesday.

The tourists were stranded after a massive landslide hit State Hig

After years in prison and under house arrest and a week holed up in the US embassy, Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng had one English phrase for Hillary Clinton: "I want to kiss you."

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