China orders firms to defy U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil in what analysts call an unprecedented escalation of Beijing's resistance to Washington.

Select Committee on China Chairman John Moolenaar, a Republican congressman from Michigan, introduced the Protecting U.S. Farmland and Sensitive Sites from Foreign Adversaries Act on Thursday aimed to safeguard U.S. national security and food security by closing gaps in federal oversight of foreign land acquisitions.

Two men, including a British immigration officer, were found guilty in a London court on Thursday of spying on behalf of Hong Kong and ultimately China, targeting prominent pro-democracy dissidents now based in Britain.

The death toll from an explosion at a fireworks plant this week in central China has risen to 37, state media reported.

Xi Jinping spent 13 years building a military to rival that of the United States. But the stronger the Chinese forces grew, the less he trusted the generals he had handpicked to run them.

China’s top spy agency has come out of the shadows to warn that its young people are being duped by foreign forces into shirking hard work and prioritizing their individual emotions at the expense of national development.

By Lewis Jackson and Sam Li BEIJING, May 8 (Reuters) - China's foreign ministry confirmed on Friday that an oil products tanker carrying Chinese crew was attacked in the Strait of Hormuz, and expressed deep concern about vessels affected by the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.

Chinese companies have amassed ownership stakes in about 10,000 auto suppliers in America.