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Views split in China over French student attack
China's internet users have reacted with outrage to reports of a racist assault on six Chinese students studying in France, while others denounced the victims as children of wealthy officials.
Snowden claims US hacking China
Jia Lynn Yang Edward Snowden, the self-confessed leaker of secret surveillance documents, claims the US has mounted massive hacking operations against hundreds of Chinese targets since 2009.
JUNE 2013
China inside out
John Garnaut My mind was clear, despite the wine and wistful mood of a farewell dinner, and my reflexes had been honed by six years on the China beat.
Beyond the goodwill, US-China tensions remain
David J. Lynch Though they bonded at their two-day California summit, sharing small talk about exercise and a shirt-sleeve stroll in the unforgiving desert sun, the presidents of the world's two largest economies...
China jails relative of peace prize winner
Edward Wong A Chinese court has sentenced a brother-in-law of a persecuted Nobel peace prize laureate to 11 years in prison on charges of financial fraud, according to friends of the man awarded the prize, Liu...
China launches longest space mission
Sebastien Berger China has begun its longest manned space mission with the launch of the Shenzhou-10 rocket, state television showed, as the country steps up an ambitious exploration program symbolising its growing...
Mother of China's sewer pipe baby found
A 22-year-old Chinese woman who raised the alarm about a newborn trapped in a sewerage pipe kept quiet about being his mother, even as she watched the sensational two-hour rescue unfold.
US and China to hold talks on cyberhacking
David E. Sanger and Mark Landler The United States and China have agreed to hold regular, high-level talks on how to set standards of behaviour for cybersecurity and commercial espionage, the first diplomatic effort to defuse the...
India, Japan pantomime message to China
Rama Lakshmi and Chico Harlan With an eye on China, India and Japan shore up their friendship.
China follows US with loans for Caribbean
Joshua Goodman China's President Xi Jinping promised $US3 billion in loans to 10 Caribbean nations after a meeting with heads of state from the region, Trinidad and Tobago's prime minister said.
Meeting China's first lady comes second for Michelle Obama
Peter Foster in Washington and Tom Phillips in Shanghai The hope that this weekend's summit between Presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping might inject a new warmth into US-China relations suffered a setback when the White House announced that Michelle...
Biden plays defence as China muscles in on 'backyard'
Joshua Goodman The competition between the world's two biggest economies for influence in Latin America is on display this week as US Vice President Joe Biden arrives in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday near the end of...
Summit to avoid 'inevitable' US-China tensions
Nick O'Malley The so-called "shirt-sleeves" summit to begin between President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at a glamorous estate in California on Friday will be the first of its kind in half...
'Black' PR in China buys internet invisibility
Malcolm Moore In the middle of the biggest anti-corruption campaign for years, crooked Chinese politicians are paying to vanish from sight, with all negative stories about them scrubbed from the internet.
US weapon plans compromised by China: report
Ellen Nakashima Designs for many of the US's most sensitive advanced weapons systems have been compromised by Chinese hackers, according to a report.
China Daily's phallic HQ nothing to Twitter about, insist censors
Unamused Chinese censors have trying to stop people sniggering about the new Beijing headquarters of the People's Daily newspaper which bears an unfortunate resemblance to a giant penis.
India, China back down from border face-off
Fayaz Bukhari and Satarupa Bhattacharjya India and China simultaneously withdrew troops from camps a few meters apart in a Himalayan desert on Sunday.
Israeli, Palestinian leaders visit China
Chris Buckley The president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, arrived in Beijing on Sunday seeking support from Chinese leaders, days before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes his own...
China's diamond love affair pushing up price of flawed stones
Thomas Biesheuvel China's burgeoning middle class is buying diamonds so quickly that the price of mass-market stones is rising faster around the world than for top-quality jewels affordable only to the super-rich.
Where there's smoke there's China
Tom Arup As a former top diplomat in Beijing, and after three decades of professional and personal engagement with the country, Professor Ross Garnaut is no stranger to China.
