China is the world's most populous country, with approximately 1.3 billion citizens. With one of the world's fastest growing economies, over six millennia of history, China is both culturally and economically one of the world's...
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China is the world's most populous country, with approximately 1.3 billion citizens. With one of the world's fastest growing economies, over six millennia of history, China is both culturally and economically one of the world's superpowers. Learn more about China here.
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese court sentenced three more people to death on Friday for murder and other crimes during ethnic rioting in the far western Xinjiang region, state media reported. Friday's sentences followed five death sentences handed down on Thursday. China has already executed nine other people convicted in connection with the riots, in which almost 200 people were killed. Judging by their names, two of the three people given the death penalty on Friday appeared to be Uighurs... Read Full Story
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese court on Thursday handed out a further five death sentences to people convicted of murder and other crimes during ethnic rioting in the far western Xinjiang region in July in which almost 200 people died. The official Xinhua news agency reported that a court in Urumqi, Xinjiang's regional capital, also jailed two defendants for life. Last month, China executed nine people convicted of violent crimes in the ethnic unrest between Uighurs, a Turkic minority that... Read Full Story
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama faces tensions with China over trade and Tibet on his first visit to the emerging superpower for a summit that will grapple with economic imbalances and the future of the yuan. Obama arrived in Shanghai, China's commercial hub, late on Sunday to torrential rain and is due to meet city officials and hold a town hall-style meeting with young people before heading to Beijing later on Monday. Chinese state-run Internet sites have asked the public... Read Full Story
US President Barack Obama and China's Hu Jintao Tuesday pledged to apply their joint political might to the world's toughest problems, but friction was evident on Tibet, economics and Iran. In solemn talks at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, the high point of Obama's debut visit to China, the leaders ploughed through an agenda packed with top world crises, reflecting China's rise as a key global player. Hu vowed to work for "positive, cooperative and comprehensive" ties with Obama's... Read Full Story
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese Internet users want to quiz U.S. President Barack Obama about trade feuds, basketball, Tibet and whether he will cede California to China, according to websites seeking questions for a "town hall" meeting. Obama arrives on Sunday for a four-day visit to shore up ties between the world's biggest and third-biggest economies, and a public high point will be a planned question-and-answer meeting with young Chinese in Shanghai on Monday. The White House hopes the quiz... Read Full Story
US President Barack Obama must press China on human rights violations in Tibet and its far-west Xinjiang region during his upcoming Asian tour, Human Rights Watch said Thursday. "We are seriously disappointed with the administration's efforts to date on human rights in China," Sophie Richardson, Asia advocacy director for the New York-based group, told the Foreign Correspondents' Club in Hong Kong. "It will be devastating if (Obama) doesn't speak about Tibet and Xinjiang." A senior US... Read Full Story
China on Monday said it had put to death nine people over deadly ethnic unrest in its far-western Xinjiang region, the first executions since the rioting in July. Authorities convicted 21 defendants in October -- nine were sentenced to death, three were given the death penalty with a two-year reprieve, a sentence usually commuted to life in jail and the rest were handed various prison terms. "The first group of nine people who were sentenced to death recently have already been executed in... Read Full Story
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has executed nine people convicted of violent crimes during ethnic rioting in the far western Xinjiang region in July, the first to be put to death over the unrest, the China News Service said Monday. Almost 200 people died in the rioting between Uighurs and Han Chinese, which was the worst ethnic violence in decades in the majority Muslim region. The nine were executed after a judicial review by the country's supreme court, the semi-official news agency said on its... Read Full Story
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese forces have launched a "strike hard" security campaign in the restless far western region of Xinjiang, vowing to wipe out lawlessness and "change the face" of the public security situation there. Xinjiang's regional capital Urumqi has been rocked by ethnic violence twice this year, in which a total of around 200 people died.. In Xinjiang's worst ethnic violence in decades, Uighurs attacked Han Chinese in Urumqi in July, after taking to the streets to protest... Read Full Story
A court in China's far western Xinjiang region sentenced six men to death Monday for murder and other crimes committed during ethnic riots that killed nearly 200 people. A seventh man was given life imprisonment. The sentences were the first for any of the scores of suspects arrested in the July rioting between Muslim Uighurs and members of the Han Chinese majority in the regional capital of Urumqi. It was China's worst communal violence in decades. The verdicts appeared aimed at placating... Read Full Story
