Beijing

Meetings involving US national security adviser and Chinese officials part of an effort to to reduce the temperature in the relationship

Beijing claims maritime incidents caused by dangerous actions of Philippines coast guard vessels in contested waters of South China Sea

Men in China retire at 60 and women at 55, apart from those in manual labour who can finish up at 50

Zhua Wa Wa or Successor has echoes of The Truman Show and Succession but it reflects very specifically Chinese concerns about education, parenting and getting the best for your offspring

Beijing Letter: China’s economy is in trouble, but the cost of living is coming down for many people

Some advocates of the democracy-against-autocracy paradigm are gripped by the same level of moral certainty that drove the global war on terror

Visit was organised by Chinese authorities but EU diplomats specified where they wished to go

Beijing Letter: A moving performance at the city’s 300-year-old wooden theatre

The drop in temperature after the storm meant it was cool enough to wear the summer suit I had picked up from the tailor last week and which I was eager to show off

China claims sovereignty over reefs, islands and other maritime features and took action against vessels entering waters near Scarborough Shoal

Baoding’s hospital and the vast Xiong’an model city 50km away show the virtues of design, planning and state ownership of land

Every other live venue in Beijing must submit detailed information about every musical act to the local cultural department at least three days in advance

Kristalina Georgieva’s remarks at Beijing conference come as China export glut tensions rise

Biking food from Beijing’s cafes and restaurants, some six million drivers work long hours daily for low pay in dangerous traffic conditions. Liu Wei is one of them who works hard and draws dignity from his seven-day-a-week labour

Exporting antiques was a good way to make money but Communist Party restrictions turned traders into smugglers

A 36-year-old from Downpatrick, Co Down, has become China’s top whiskey influencer

The focus was on ‘new productive forces’, a new slogan for what amounts to a dramatic reshaping of the Chinese economy

Move puts State Council, which oversees ministries and local governments, under direct authority of party

Annual legislative meeting in Tiananmen Square includes a lengthy press conference to lay out Communist Party’s global agenda

The province of Yunnan attracts people in pursuit of their dreams with its idyllic setting, openness and low cost of living. But the classic processes of gentrification and spiralling rents inflict cultural damage on the local community

Intense and sometimes destructive social media storms have been a regular occurrence for more than a decade

The view that Washington is acting provocatively is shared across much of Asia

A splendid portrait of layers of identity and resistance in what is no less a settler society than the United States

The Year of the Dragon brings marriage-related suspicions and a sour response over lunch

Regulator has promised to clamp down on what it describes as market manipulation and ‘malicious short-selling’

China retains ownership of any cubs born to pandas on loan overseas and zoos must agree to send cubs back to China when they reach the age of four

Tight supply and a shortage of affordable housing are common themes despite recent cooling of prices in several markets

Five Irish Times foreign correspondents looked at rental prices and issues in their city, to get a snapshot of whether the rental crisis in Dublin is also experienced in other parts of the world

Beijing Letter: A friend of mine had a wife who fined him up to €102 if he came home late

The social media platform has about 600 million daily active users, and lots of people want a piece of the action, as Dennis Staunton found out when a man from Inner Mongolia came calling

In the News podcast: New moves from Beijing threaten freedoms in Hong Kong

I told him I spent an afternoon with Leonard Cohen many years ago. I might as well have said I used to go drinking with Rimbaud

Beijing Letter: There is official wariness about young people and addiction despite recent esport wins at the Asian Games

Beijing Letter: Zandra Rhodes attends Beijing Design Week as ecommerce and digital marketing help smaller designers sell their products

Beijing Letter: With an ageing population, China is exploring ways of encouraging people to have more children

In the News podcast with Bernice Harrison

The New China Playbook by Keyu Jin, Beijing Rules by Bethany Allen and Beijing’s Global Media Offensive by Joshua Kurlantzick

Prepaid cards are common in China for everything from hairdressers and dry cleaners to gyms and restaurants, with businesses pushing hard to get customers to pay for things in advance

Taking the world in his stride, former Chicago Tribune foreign correspondent Paul Salopek paused in the Chinese capital after a 23,000km walk - so far - out of Africa retracing the footsteps of early human migration

To stop a problem becoming a crisis, the government needs to intervene