Xi Jinping

Nintendo recently launched a specific version of its Switch in China in partnership with Tencent, but the console apparently only supports three games. According to a new report from South China Morning Post, gamers in China have been severely disappointed with the country’s own version of the Switch, which thanks to…

FILE PHOTO: Chinese President Xi jinping speaks during a meeting with Tedros Adhanom, director general of the World Health Organization, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, January 28, 2020. Naohiko Hatta/Pool via REUTERSBEIJING (Reuters) - China will speed up the development of key technologies and improve…

BEIJING/SEOUL (Reuters) - China has dispatched a team to North Korea including medical experts to advise on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, according to three people familiar with the situation.  The trip by the Chinese doctors and officials comes amid conflicting reports about the health of the North Korean…

President Donald Trump justified his recent announcement that the U.S. would halt further payments to the World Health Organization by claiming that “the WHO failed to adequately obtain, vet and share information in a timely and transparent fashion” about the coronavirus pandemic. This charge has been widely rebutted by global…

By: AP | Beijing | Published: April 16, 2020 11:33:27 am Consumption is a smaller share of China’s economy than in the United States and other high-income countries but accounted for 80% of last year’s growth. Photographer: Giulia Marchi/BloombergChina, where the coronavirus pandemic started in December, is cautiously trying to…

BEIJING (Reuters) - China reported fewer new coronavirus cases on Thursday that involved travellers arriving from abroad, but said locally transmitted infections rose, with the capital Beijing seeing new local cases for the first time in more than three weeks.To prevent a rebound of the epidemic as business activity resumes,…

WASHINGTON — As negotiators wrapped up the framework of President Donald Trump’s vaunted trade deal in December, China may have provided a missed clue about the coronavirus outbreak already unfolding there: insistence on a provision allowing for an out in case of “a natural disaster or other unforeseeable event.” Such…

China might be secretly conducting nuclear tests with very low explosive power despite Beijing’s assertions that it is strictly adhering to an international accord banning all nuclear tests, according to a new arms-control report to be made public by the State Department. The coming report doesn’t present proof that China…

China knew the novel coronavirus could spread among humans and become a pandemic but didn't tell the world for six days, The Associated Press found.A damning memo of a January 14 call obtained by the AP warned top officials about human-to-human transmission and said to prepare for a pandemic.But in…

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Chinese authorities knew that coronavirus could pass from human to human for at least six days before it told the world, according to internal documents leaked to AP. During those six days, at least 3,000 more people…