BEIJING — China moved over the weekend to defuse the latest crisis on the Korean Peninsula, publicly calling on Sunday for “emergency consultations” while beginning what amounted to high-level shuttle diplomacy between North and South Korea.

Wednesday marks the second anniversary of China’s worst disaster in a generation, the Sichuan earthquake – and a painful milestone for the families of the 17,921 people still recorded as missing. Chinese law says relatives can apply two years...

nearly 200 nervous-looking Public Security officials seized two Chinese human rights lawyers outside the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, who were trying to establish a meeting with President Obama before the end of his visit to China. Five human rights lawyers...

Chinese officials are being told to dump their mistresses, avoid hostess bars, and shun extravagances as part of the Communist party’s efforts to clamp down on the corruption that is threatening its rule and sullying its reputation. The language...

The man from family planning liked to prowl around the mountaintop village, looking for diapers on clotheslines and listening for the cry of a hungry newborn. One day in the spring of 2004, he presented himself at Yang Shuiying’s doorstep and...

Chinese officials say they are on course to achieve GDP growth of about 8% this year, and the fall’s dire predictions of massive unemployment leading to social upheaval haven’t been borne out. But last week’s killing of a steel-company...

Amid reports that al-Qa’ida in north Africa had vowed to take revenge for Uighur deaths by attacking Chinese workers in Algeria, the situation in the ethnically divided Chinese city of Urumqi is on a knife edge, with thousands of paramilitary...

China announced plans Monday to establish a social security number system for the welfare of its citizens. The draft of the social insurance law was discussed by the Standing Committee of the 11th National People’s Congress, the country’s...

Ignoring Chinese complaints, French President Nicolas Sarkozy met the Dalai Lama in Poland last Saturday. Sarkozy was also the first sitting president of the EU to meet the spiritual leader. The Chinese government responded to the meeting with...

The evidence is accumulating. The censorship imposed on the Chinese media about the contaminated milk scandal has had disastrous consequences according to Reporters Without Borders. Last July, a journalist working for the investigative weekly Nanfang...