South Korea mulls $350bn US investment - the price of avoiding Trump’s tariffsSeptember immigration raid on Korean Hyundai workers in US has made firms nervous to commitTue Oct 28 2025 - 19:00
US and China agree not to further escalate tit-for-tat trade war and hold further talksKuala Lumpur framework will allow Donald Trump and Xi Jinping to signal thaw in relationship but most big issues remain unresolvedMon Oct 27 2025 - 13:16
Donald Trump vs Xi Jinping: who holds the stronger hand?As tensions escalate, our correspondents examine the contrasting styles and strategies of the two leaders ahead of a pivotal summitSun Oct 26 2025 - 14:22
Chips are down for Europe after landing in the crossfire of US-China trade warEuropean Union’s substantive trade issues with China has already wiped out renewable energy companies and now threatens car industryFri Oct 24 2025 - 05:00
China ‘on course’ to hit growth targets despite weak numbers for third quarter China and US signal that negotiators to resume talks aimed at de-escalating trade dispute Mon Oct 20 2025 - 17:35
Taiwan’s new opposition leader vows to mend ties with BeijingCheng Li-wun’s victory reshapes Taiwan’s opposition politics, setting up a new confrontation over the island’s ties to ChinaMon Oct 20 2025 - 16:41
China’s property slump hits economy as trade tensions with US heightenFour years in, the unprecedented drop in the value of their homes is a psychological as well as an economic shock to manyFri Oct 17 2025 - 05:39
Old people behaving badly are the talk of ChinaOne young artist has a theory – the seniors causing disruption may have once been part of Mao’s Red GuardsFri Oct 17 2025 - 05:30
New export figures suggest China could weather escalation of trade war with USOn Friday, Donald Trump threatened to impose an extra 100% tariff on Chinese goodsMon Oct 13 2025 - 15:52
Jung Chang: ‘People risk their lives to come to the West. Nobody tries to go to China’The Chinese-born author on why she can not return to her native country under Xi Jinping, how her view of Mao changed, and why she does not see the Communist Party as a monolithMon Oct 13 2025 - 06:00
In China’s social media spotlight, one mistake can end everythingHow a car crash and a fashion post became parables of the country’s unforgiving internetFri Oct 10 2025 - 05:55
China clamps down on rare earth exportsForeign companies will need Beijing’s approval to export products containing certain mineralsThu Oct 09 2025 - 13:13
Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future by Dan Wang - Eastern innovation meets western complacencyWang rejects western analysis that China’s authoritarian system will prevent it achieving tech supremacyMon Oct 06 2025 - 04:39
Winner takes all in China’s ruthless race for university placesMillions of students will spend the autumn holiday cramming for an exam that can unlock an elite university place — and a 40% income premiumThu Oct 02 2025 - 19:00
China manufacturing sector contracts once againChinese industry has shrunk for past six monthsTue Sept 30 2025 - 20:08
China’s marriage rate is at its lowest in nearly 40 years. Why are singles put off settling down?Couples who are getting married are doing so later than beforeFri Sept 26 2025 - 05:00
‘We’re still talking past each other’: US congressmen make rare visit to ChinaFirst congressional delegation to Beijing since 2019 calls for military dialogue as Trump and Xi plan to meetTue Sept 23 2025 - 12:14
China seizes on Trump’s chaos to position itself as champion of stabilityTrump’s actions over the past eight months have accelerated a global realignmentFri Sept 19 2025 - 19:00
Donald Trump and China’s Xi Jinping to meet in South Korea next monthUS president plans to go to China next year amid trade tension between the two superpowers Fri Sept 19 2025 - 18:05
Jobless in Beijing: ‘You have to find other passions. For me it was my plants and the cat’Talk of job losses is everywhere these days but China’s generous statutory payments can make redundancy seem attractiveFri Sept 19 2025 - 05:00
China to preach peace at security forum but South China Sea actions tell different storyBeijing has been aggressively enforcing its disputed claims to over 90 per cent of the maritime area with its most advanced aircraft carrierTue Sept 16 2025 - 14:00
China accuses Nvidia of breaching competition rules as trade talks with US heat up in MadridUS seeks resolution of TikTok ownership impasse ahead of ban as talks continue against background of grim Chinese economic data Mon Sept 15 2025 - 14:54
Meet the 82-year-old Irishman cycling across ChinaElectoral expert’s attempts to engage local councils meets with mixed success - and interest from the policeFri Sept 12 2025 - 05:00
Why the West misreads the room with its ‘Axis of Upheaval’ narrativeThe emerging alternative order is neither an axis, nor is it interested in upheavalFri Sept 05 2025 - 06:00
Xi Jinping warns world faces ‘peace or war’, as Putin, Kim join him for military paradeXi’s embrace of leaders sends a message to the US and EU that China will make its own geopolitical choicesWed Sept 03 2025 - 07:50
North Korea’s Kim Jong-un arrives in Beijing on board armoured train ahead of military paradeChina uses its role as a second World War ally to claim a place in global orderTue Sept 02 2025 - 16:20
New global order? Modi, Putin and Xi offer glimpse of what may lie aheadTrump’s tariffs and diplomatic missteps push India into closer alignment with Russia and China at summitMon Sept 01 2025 - 20:56
Xi, Putin and Modi make rare show of unity at China summitPutin blames West for Ukraine invasion while Xi Jinping calls for new system of global governanceMon Sept 01 2025 - 17:40
The Party’s Interests Come First by Joseph Torigian: The paranoid and intensely emotional political culture behind China’s Xi JinpingXi Zhongxun biography takes us into the world of the Communist Party and the life of its elite figuresTue Aug 12 2025 - 04:17
Hugging, French kissing and shoes indoors: The western habits Chinese people hateSong was tentative at first when I asked him about our nasty habits. Then he got into his strideFri Aug 01 2025 - 05:00
China warns Britain against meddling in TaiwanMilitary spokesman reacts to British defence secretary’s remarks on region, that Taiwan question purely an ‘internal affair of China’Wed Jul 30 2025 - 17:38
At least 30 reported dead as ‘extreme’ rain causes flooding in Beijing More than 80,000 residents relocated as almost a year’s worth of rain falls in Chinese capital over a few daysTue Jul 29 2025 - 07:13
EU-US trade deal: Ursula von der Leyen stooped to conquerThe EU is now closer to China than the US on a growing number of policy areasMon Jul 28 2025 - 17:00
Brussels and Beijing talk trade and Ukraine, but deliver few concrete resultsShort statement on climate highlights a summit more notable for its occurrence than its achievementsFri Jul 25 2025 - 06:00
‘The aftertaste is terrible’: Irish pubs lament the arrival of Chinese-brewed Guinness Bar owners fear business loss amid a chorus of complaints from customers longing for the original pint of plainFri Jul 25 2025 - 05:45
EU and China agree to strengthen co-operation on climate changeOne-day summit in Beijing fails to resolve differences over trade and UkraineThu Jul 24 2025 - 16:50
‘Dominance, dependency and blackmail’: EU and China talks overshadowed by deep divisionsA summit meeting in Beijing comes as Europe and China face growing rifts over trade, Russia, and global power dynamicsTue Jul 22 2025 - 06:00
My friend’s mother-in-law was caught shoplifting. A few days in detention leaves a lifelong recordPublic discontent over the lifelong burden an indiscretion can impose is leading to reformFri Jul 18 2025 - 06:00
EU warns China against ‘dumping’ EVs in EuropeEuropean Commission vice-president Teresa Ribera focused on preserving level playing fieldMon Jul 14 2025 - 17:03
China’s war commemorations contrast with hesitant approach of Japan’s Memorialising the war with Japan, which cost 14 million lives, is part of a broader narrative of national rejuvenation in ChinaThu Jul 10 2025 - 18:56
China warns countries on agreeing US tariff deal that would come at Beijing’s expenseUS negotiators have pressed a number of countries to cut China out of their supply chains as part of the tariff talksTue Jul 08 2025 - 10:38
China warns trading partners over US tariff deals US negotiators have pressed countries to cut China out of their supply chainsTue Jul 08 2025 - 10:07
In Hiroshima, Martin voices concerns about ‘drift from international rules-based order’Taoiseach hears testimony from a survivor of atomic bomb that killed 140,000 people 80 years agoFri Jul 04 2025 - 16:04
‘Ireland is not anti-Semitic’: Taoiseach rejects criticism from veteran US senator Idaho Republican and chair of US Senate foreign relations committe Jim Risch said Ireland was on ‘a hateful, anti-Semitic path’Fri Jul 04 2025 - 07:11
Celebrating the Irish writer whose ghost stories still grip JapanLafcadio Hearn remains popular in his adopted country more than a century after his death, but remains little known in IrelandFri Jul 04 2025 - 05:00
Japan expresses concern over security of subsea cables off the Irish coastJapan’s prime minister Shigeru Ishiba raises security issue with Micheál Martin during Tokyo meetingWed Jul 02 2025 - 10:51
Coalition sharply divided over third-level feesFine Gael privately seething over the controversy as Opposition parties unite in angerWed Jul 02 2025 - 06:00
Taoiseach embarks on four-day visit to Japan, with focus on investmentMuch of Taoiseach’s time in Japan will be spent meeting companies which the IDA hopes to attract to IrelandMon Jun 30 2025 - 14:20
China asserts its military might in a new and uncertain world orderWhile its defence budget has more than doubled since 2010, its forces have not been in a war since the 1970sFri Jun 27 2025 - 05:00
Where were China and Russia when Iran needed them most?Stability in the Middle East is more valuable to Beijing than any cost or distraction a war with Iran might create for the USTue Jun 24 2025 - 13:10
