"Perhaps of greatest concern for China is the software used in advanced manufacturing – Western companies control over 70% of the Chinese market for chip design software, for example."

Beijing is fighting to limit the damage from a pattern of price wars and excess capacity across multiple industries.

China is more interested in expansionism than solving its own pressing economic and social issues, and Taiwan is determined to defend itself from Chinese aggression, the island's top security official said on Tuesday.

Sanae Takaichi, Japan's newly elected first female prime minister, is an unabashedly conservative icon of Japanese politics. Her election is set to change East Asia.

In a nation grappling with economic uncertainty and sweeping demographic change, Chinese workers are reinventing themselves in unexpected ways.

LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's attempts to improve ties with China leave him open to criticism at home that he is overlooking the threat to national security, while securing few of the economic gains that he desperately needs.

Fixed-asset investment, which includes real estate, unexpectedly contracted 0.5% in the first nine months of the year as investment into infrastructure and manufacturing slowed.

CHINA’S economy likely expanded the slowest in a year last quarter despite a boom in exports. This is a disconnect the Communist Party may move to rectify, by championing higher consumption, when it