Rachel Reeves is expected to raise Russia’s war in Ukraine and issues of human rights in Hong Kong during her trip to China. The Chancellor is visiting Beijing for the first UK-China economic and financial dialogue since 2019,

Its location is no accident: it draws on the traditional philosophies of the Hakka people, one of Hong Kong’s pre-colonial indigenous groups, who built the settlement. “We maintain what is ...

More than 150,000 Hong Kongers have come to the UK since 2020 after China launched a crackdown under its national security law

Chinese leader Xi Jinping vowed to take his country’s ties with Russia to a new level this year in a video conference with counterpart Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, hours after the inauguration of US President Donald Trump.

British Airways is the only UK carrier serving Chinese destinations. After axing its Beijing service last year, its sole destination on the mainland is Shanghai. Services to all other cities on the mainland had already been scrapped. Virgin pulled out of Shanghai last year and abandoned Hong Kong during the pandemic.

Donald Trump's aggressive stance on the Panama Canal risks setting a dangerous precedent. It could offer China a blueprint to justify its territorial ambitions. Critics say Trump's stance could embolden Beijing's expansionism in Taiwan and the South China Sea,

The west front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Friday Jan, 17, 2025, after President-elect Donald Trump announced that his inauguration will be moved indoors because of a forecast of extreme cold. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) (KENNY HOLSTON)

China and Britain restarted economic and financial talks on Saturday after a six-year hiatus during a visit by Britain’s Treasury chief to Beijing, as the U.K.’s Labour

Asian stocks have retreated after U.S. stocks fell as good news on the job market raised worries over inflation.

The Sino-British ties have soured following a series of spying allegations from both sides, China’s support for Russia in the Ukraine war and a crackdown on civil liberties in Hong Kong, a former British colony. British officials said Reeves will also ...

Pressure is mounting on Rachel Reeves as the Chancellor arrived in China after a week when government borrowing hit an almost 30-year high. Bond market turmoil has seen the pound sink to a 14-month low against the dollar amid fears Reeves may have to rip up her own fiscal rules.

Other points of contention, she said, were "Russia's illegal war in Ukraine... and Hong Kong, where we have concerns on rights and freedoms, but where we also have shared interests". In response, He repeated China's long-standing position that it is ...