Panama’s President José Raúl Mulino has told his cabinet not to discuss ‘lies’ while Beijing hit back at Donald Trump’s takeover threats.

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton is set to close its Beijing office, as major U.S. law firms continue to scale back in the Chinese legal market.

China asserted on Friday that its territorial claims in the contested South China Sea are supported by a series of international treaties that date back to as early as the 1890s. Newsweek has reached out to the Philippine Embassy in Beijing for comment by email.

China is not ready for war, according to a contentious report from a US think tank, which claims the main motivation for the ruling Communist Party’s expansive push for military modernization is to retain its grip on power – not fight an overseas foe.

After U.S. President Donald Trump's administration froze donations in January to Cambodia's largest demining organization, which works to clear the countryside of deadly remnants of Washington's past wars in Southeast Asia,

China will not "sit idly by" as it is threatened by a United States missile system deployed in the Philippines that can target the country from the South China Sea, Beijing warned. Newsweek has contacted the Pentagon and the Philippine military for comment by email.

As the war in Ukraine grinds toward its fourth year, US President Donald Trump has made clear which world leader he thinks can help America end the conflict: Vladimir Putin’s ally Xi Jinping.

Elon Musk holds an outsized influence in the new Trump administration. As head of his Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, the world’s wealthiest man has enjoyed nearly unfettered political power in slashing and refashioning the federal government as he sees fit.

But it does not provide traditional aid on the same scale as Western democratic nations. China also has little experience providing the specialist assistance - from combating dise

Chinese companies rally behind film by booking entire cinemas while state media outlets herald box office success as a sign of soft power.

China's President Xi Jinping has attended a symposium on private enterprises, official news agency Xinhua said on Monday, a rare move that comes as Beijing grapples with a slowing economy and growing tensions with the United States.

Inbound investment in China plummeted to a four-year low in January, as the world’s second-largest economy grapples with a flurry of headwinds.