China's commerce ministry on Thursday said it has resumed regular quarantine inspections for lobsters imported from Australia, effectively restoring shipments that had been disrupted since late 2020 due to a diplomatic dispute.

"Disabling or destroying TSMC is table stakes if China is taking over Taiwan," former senior Pentagon official Elbridge Colby said in February.

China on Thursday revised up its 2023 gross domestic product (GDP) by 2.7% to 129.4 trillion yuan ($17.73 trillion), the head of the National Bureau of Statistics Kang Yi said at a press conference in Beijing.

There have been at least 20 such attacks in China this year, with a death toll of more than 90 people. Government officials have called these incidents “isolated” and offered explanations emphasizing individual motivations: the driver in the Zhuhai car attack was unhappy with his divorce settlement,

A Chinese court has issued a suspended death sentence to a man who rammed his car into crowds outside a primary school in southern China last month, injuring more than two dozen people in one of several violent attacks that has recently rattled the country and prompted officials to ramp up security measures.

China has approved the construction of what will be the world's largest hydropower dam, kicking off an ambitious project on the eastern rim of the Tibetan plateau that could affect millions downstream in India and Bangladesh.

China says a plan by the Philippines to deploy midrange missiles would be a provocative move that stokes regional tensions.

China kept a key interest rate unchanged — a move widely expected by economists — as it seeks to keep its powder dry ahead of possible escalation in trade tensions with the US.

The Chinese navy added nearly one-third of its vertical missile launch cells in 2021 and 2022 alone, according to a new report.

A two-tier system that has long made workers leave children behind in villages is cutting into birthrates.

China does not dominate global chip production yet, but its market share is growing fast. The U.S. government estimates that China could be responsible for more than 40 percent of global capacity in foundational chips by 2032, with more than half of the world’s capacity in some segments.