WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Chinese President Xi Jinping will send a high-level envoy in his place to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. Beijing has told Trump’s transition team that the official would attend instead of Xi,

China's top anti-graft watchdog said on Friday that it had filed more than 4,000 disciplinary cases against officials in 2024, as it attempts to tackle a long-running corruption problem.

On Christmas Day, authorities in Estonia and Finland noted the sudden interruption of the Estlink 2 undersea electricity cable linking their two nations - just as ship tracking data showed the Cook Islands-registered "Eagle S" passing outbound from Russia’s Baltic coast en route to Egypt.

As China experiences a rise in respiratory infections this winter, one little-known virus has gotten a lot of attention – and some people may worry whether the rise in cases could be felt more broadly around the world.

China's bond yields have plunged to all-time lows in recent weeks, drawing parallels to Japan's "lost decades," a long period of economic stagnation.

It was almost a year before a handful of Chinese AI chatbots received government approval for public release. Some questioned whether China’s stance on censorship might hobble the country’s AI ambitions.

China's top economic planning body has said the schemes, which were launched in March, have already produced "visible effects". According to the country's Ministry of Commerce, the policies have boosted sales of big items items such as home appliances and cars.

After decades of counterterrorism, special operators are shifting back to supporting the joint force as the US faces powerful militaries.

So far, China has used carbon intensity — the amount of carbon dioxide emitted per unit of GDP — as its official target. It announced the metric in 2009, at the height of its economic growth, after facing pressur e to set a quantitative goal to curb its emissions. Its argument was that it was a target that wouldn’t constrain China’s growth.

The billions of dollars in spending that an unprecedented lifting of visa requirements could have brought simply hasn’t materialized.

Chinese civilization is not a relic of the past; it is a living and evolving force, offering timeless wisdom to address some of the most pressing challenges of the modern world, such as human relations with nature, international relations, and people's inner well-being.