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A massive fire on November 12 damaged the 1,500-year-old Yongqing Temple in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu province, one of China’s oldest Buddhist temples. The blaze destroyed a multi-storey pavilion but spared the main structure.

From the 2013 Southern Weekly revolt to Xi Jinping’s “Party surname” doctrine, China’s press became a propaganda arm — a stark contrast to India’s constitutional and litigable media space that still defends contestation over control.

China-backed mining in Myanmar’s Shan State has surged, devastating forests and poisoning rivers. A 2022 joint venture with Beijing firms drives rare earth extraction threatening ethnic communities, the Kok River, and regional ecosystems.

Donald Trump has claimed Pakistan and China are secretly testing nuclear weapons, saying the US must resume tests to keep up. His remarks raise fresh concerns for India, which faces nuclear-armed rivals on two fronts.

Donald Trump and Xi Jinping’s rare face-to-face meeting brought a brief calm to the stormy US-China trade war. With smiles, tariff pauses, and talk of “consensus,” both sides signalled hope — but experts warn tougher tests lie ahead.

Donald Trump hailed his meeting with Xi Jinping in Busan as a “great success”, sealing a rare earths and fentanyl tariff deal, pledging soybean buys, and announcing a potential China visit—amid nuclear testing remarks and renewed global tensions.

US lawmakers have introduced the Combatting the Persecution of Religious Groups in China Act to sanction Chinese Communist Party officials responsible for suppressing Christians, Muslims, Buddhists and Falun Gong practitioners.

Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are set for their first face-to-face meeting since 2019, with rare earths, fentanyl tariffs, soybeans, Ukraine, Taiwan, AI chips, and TikTok on the agenda — a high-stakes showdown that could redefine US-China relations.

China is reshaping trade, technology, and education while reducing reliance on the U.S. A closer look at the shift.

China’s military leadership faces unprecedented purges, exposing rivalries, corruption scandals, and questions over Xi Jinping’s authority.