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Bo decision allows China to focus on succession
With disgraced politician Bo Xilai expelled from the party, his career effectively ended with a slew of criminal charges that are certain to result ...
China says disgraced leader Bo expelled from party
China's communist leadership expelled Bo Xilai from the ruling party Friday and sought to bury him with charges ranging from corruption to sexual ...
Ex-top cop in China scandal gets verdict Monday
The ex-police chief at the center of a seamy political scandal will be sentenced Monday as Chinese leaders move to dispatch a messy affair that has ...
Panetta talks computer hacking issues with Chinese
Despite several years of escalating diplomacy and warnings, the U.S. is making little headway in its efforts to tamp down aggressive Chinese ...
China probes protest around US ambassador's car
China is investigating protesters' harassment of the U.S. ambassador as he attempted to enter the American Embassy, and U.S. officials say Beijing has ...
Panetta: New Asia focus not aimed to contain China
Top Chinese leaders have a better understanding of America's new focus on the Asia-Pacific region, but they are concerned that there is too much ...
Panetta in talks with Chinese leader-in-waiting
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta met Wednesday with Chinese leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping, who just days ago reappeared after a puzzling two-week ...
China reserves right to act on disputed islands
China's national defense minister warned Tuesday that Beijing reserves the right to take further action against Japan in the ongoing dispute over ...
Panetta to meet with China leaders, tour navy base
A day after the U.S. forged an agreement to put a second missile defense radar system in Japan, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta arrived Monday in ...
China's presumed next leader reappears in public
Chinese leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping reappeared in public Saturday after a two-week absence that sparked rumors about his health and questions about ...
China to try ex-police head for defection, bribery
A trial next week for a flamboyant former police chief marks the latest step by China's leadership to contain the fallout from a messy political ...
China to hold trial of ex-police chief on Tuesday
A Chinese police chief whose flight to a U.S. consulate set off a messy political scandal will stand trial Tuesday on charges of attempted defection ...
More rumors swirl on status of China's absent VP
New rumors about health problems facing China's leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping swirled Thursday as the government continued to stonewall on commenting ...
Secretive past disappearances of Chinese leaders
The extended absence of Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, just weeks before he is expected to be named China's top leader, is nothing new in the ...
THE RACE: Global uncertainty 11 years after 9/11
President Barack Obama and rival Mitt Romney paused their campaigns Tuesday to observe the 11th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001
Mystery absence of China leader fuels rumor frenzy
Where is president-in-waiting Xi Jinping? Is he nursing a bad back after pulling a muscle in a pick-up soccer game (or maybe in the swimming pool)? ...
State Department to induct 1st American Chef Corps
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton believes in the power of food. Over more than three years as America's top diplomat, she has increasingly ...
New charges widening scope of China scandal
Bribery and illegal surveillance accusations against a former Chinese police chief point to malfeasance within the circle of disgraced politician Bo ...
Ex-police chief charged in China political scandal
A former police chief whose flight to a U.S. consulate set off China's biggest political scandal in years has been charged with crimes including ...
Clinton, China haven't narrowed gaps on Syria, sea
Talks between U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chinese leaders Wednesday failed to narrow gaps on how to end the crisis in Syria and ...
Playboy death new wrinkle in China's power shuffle
China's hopes for a smooth, once-a-decade political transition have been shaken by a lurid new scandal involving the death of a senior official's son ...
China's Wen calls for action on Europe debt
Expressing alarm at Europe's debt problems, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao called on Greece, Spain and Italy to embrace budget cuts and get their finances ...
China's Wen says global crisis worsening
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Thursday that the impact of the global economic crisis is worsening, and called during a visit by German Chancellor ...
Wife of disgraced Chinese politician sentenced
The wife of a disgraced Chinese politician received a suspended death sentence Monday for the murder of a British businessman, as authorities move to ...