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President Donald Trump signed a partial trade deal with China on Wednesday -- joined by China Vice Premiere Liu He -- a so-called "phase one" agreement representing a significant step toward de-escalation in the nearly two-year-long trade battle The two sign…

HONG KONG (AP) Hong Kong authorities barred the head of Human Rights Watch from entering the Chinese territory Sunday, the advocacy group said. Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch's executive director, had planned to launch the organization's annual world repor…

Taiwanese voters headed to the polls on Saturday for a closely watched presidential and parliamentary election in which the island's fraught relationship with China is taking centre stage. Long queues formed outside election stations before polls opened acro…

As the only place in the Chinese-speaking world where people can choose their top political leader, it’s unsurprising that elections in Taiwan embody democracy at its unbridled messiest: febrile, rambunctious and dripping in color. This year is no different. …

EARLY IN ITS trade dispute with China, America declared that Chinese industrial policy was a form of economic aggression. Americas negotiators hoped to rein it in. No such luck. The very week in December that America and China announced a mini-deal on trade, …

HONG KONG -- Hundreds of thousands of people packed Hong Kong streets for an annual New Year's Day protest march as the monthslong pro-democracy movement extended into 2020 with further violence between police and demonstrators. Police said they arrested s…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House's trade adviser on Monday said the U.S.-China Phase 1 trade deal would likely be signed in the next week, but said confirmation would come from President Donald Trump or the U.S. Trade Representative. White House trade …

BEIJING (AP) China on Monday sentenced a prominent pastor who operated outside the Communist Party-recognized Protestant organization to nine years in prison. The People's Intermediate Court in the southwestern city of Chengdu said Wang Yi was also convicted…

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's largely rubber stamp parliament revised a law on Saturday to simplify investment procedures for Taiwan companies, in another attempt by Beijing to show goodwill to the Chinese-claimed island ahead of elections there on Jan. 11. Ch…

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump attend a Christmas Eve dinner with his family at Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida on December 24, 2019. A Year at the 5th Circuit Shows Trumps Devastating Impact on the Courts Republ…