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Both China and the USA have been taken by surprise, and neither quite knows how to deal with it, writes International Editor Lindsey Hilsum as the Chinese President visits America.
A lot of what we know about Chinese Vice-Premier Li Keqiang, who begins his visit to the UK today, comes through US cables released by WikiLeaks. The cables also reveal how Mr Li gets his information, blogs Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum.
North Korea warns impending military exercises by South Korea and the US is pushing the region towards war. John Sparks is in the South Korean capital, Seoul.
As David Cameron begins his two-day visit to China, Political Editor Gary Gibbon says the Prime Minister will not threaten lucrative trade deals by “lecturing” the Chinese on human rights.
Rescuers in China’s western Qinghai province has continued searching for hundreds of people still missing, as authorities confirm at least 617 people have died in yesterday’s earthquake.
It can sometimes feel like quite a sinister experience, this celebration. I’m not sure if it was the teenage soldier grabbing my arm as I tried to enter the compound where our offices are based, or the armoured personnel carrier outside the Nike shop that did it, but Beijing’s not been feeling that relaxed of…
Jon Snow
We were all spooked by it – the idea of a nuclear holocaust that would obliterate the world. As boys we talked about it a lot, at no time more so than after reading Nevil Shute’s ‘On the Beach’. Set in Australia this was apocalyptic and desperately human account of the end of the planet.…
Xin Nian Kuaile! Gong Xi Fa Cai! Happy New Year! Congratulations and Prosperity! It’s Chinese New Year, and I’ve been practicing my greetings in Chinese. But the Year of the Dragon has not started well in the Tibetan parts of China.
“I’m an individual, so how can you judge me by my government?”. Lindsey Hulsum is in Beijing, where she’s been talking to some of China’s elite students of international politics.