Communist Party of China

Tensions rise between China, North Korea over boat held hostage

2013-05-20 01:52:00

BEIJING -- A Chinese fishing boat was seized by armed North Koreans who are demanding a ransom of nearly $100,000 for the release of the ship and 16 Chinese crew members. The Chinese Communist Party's Global Times newspaper suggested in Monday's...

Israel's Netanyahu visits China but avoids Palestinian leader Abbas

2013-05-07 09:23:00

BEIJING -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu toured Shanghai on Tuesday, paying tribute to the city’s role sheltering Jews during World War II and conveniently avoiding Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who was visiting Beijing....

North Korea, China's problem child

2013-04-10 18:19:00

BEIJING — In Washington, it is said, the definition of a gaffe is accidentally saying what you really think. That may be doubly true in Beijing, as Deng Yuwen can attest. Deng, an editor at the weekly newspaper run by the Central Party School,...

Hong Kong Film Festival: A film that deals with memory (and Macau)

2013-03-20 07:30:00

HONG KONG -- There is a moment in “The Last Time I Saw Macau” -- which plays Wednesday at the Hong Kong International Film Festival and is being distributed in the United States this summer by Cinema Guild -- in which the camera captures the...

China names Xi Jinping president

2013-03-13 21:16:00

China's new leader Xi Jinping capped his rise to the top Thursday by adding the largely ceremonial title of president, though he will need more time and cautious maneuvering to consolidate his power and build support from a public that is increasingly...

Zhuang Zedong dies at 72; helped get 'pingpong diplomacy' rolling

2013-02-12 18:44:00

It might have been a chance meeting or a cunning act of propaganda, but the encounter more than 40 years ago between two pingpong champions — one Chinese, the other American — launched what President Nixon would call "the week that changed the...

North Korea appears to conduct nuclear test, defying world powers

2013-02-11 21:29:00

BEIJING -- North Korea appeared to conduct a nuclear test Tuesday in defiance of world powers, South Korean officials said,�following through on the provocative step after weeks of threats. South Korea said it had detected a man-made seismic event...

Misunderstanding the university: The Brooklyn College case

2013-02-07 00:00:00

In recent days, Brooklyn College has found itself targeted by a vehement campaign against its political science department's decision to co-sponsor a forum on Thursday in which two speakers are expected to advocate a position that the campaigners heartily...

China's me-first foreign policy

2013-01-20 00:00:00

China's more assertive foreign policy over the last two years has played a key role in getting two arch-conservatives — Japan's Shinzo Abe and South Korea's Park Geun-hye — elected to lead their respective countries. Some Chinese observers...

China calls for talks after North Korean threat

2013-01-24 09:55:00

BEIJING -- With North Korea openly threatening the United States with nuclear weapons, China called Thursday for a new round of diplomacy and appears to be growing increasingly frustrated with its longtime ally. Beijing’s calls for intervention...

Japan scrambles jets in dispute with China over islands

2012-12-13 07:39:00

BEIJING -- Japan scrambled F-15 fighter jets Thursday in response to a Chinese surveillance plane that flew over contested islands in the East China Sea, ratcheting up a dispute that is becoming increasingly worrisome to the international community....

After a billion, what's next for Facebook?

2012-12-01 20:43:00

MENLO PARK — In just eight years, Facebook signed up more than half the world's Internet population. Now it's going after the rest. Facebook wants to reach every single person on the Internet whether they are logging on from a laptop in Santa...

China's newly-elected President Xi Jinping (R) talks with former President Hu Jintao (L) during the fourth plenary meeting of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People Thursday in Beijing.

2013-03-14 10:28:00

An ethnic delegate gets the newly-elected Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, and Vice Premier Li Keqiang, right, to sign an autograph after the election of the new president during the 12th National People's Congress (NPC) in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

2013-03-14 00:00:00

Mandela rides in the back of a truck during a preelection rally near the end of his tenure as president.

2013-03-09 10:13:00