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Flashing police cars guarded Beijing schools Tuesday and officers in another city were told they could shoot to kill to stop ...

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will visit Beijing on Thursday for talks with a Chinese vice premier for economic affairs, ...

After nearly two decades of double-digit hikes in military spending, Beijing's announcement of a relatively modest 7.5% rise is seen as an apparent bid to assuage wary East Asia neighbors.

China announced Thursday the smallest increase in its defense budget in years, in an apparent attempt to assuage international fears that its military is growing too powerful.

Chinese meteorologists covered Beijing in snow Sunday after seeding clouds to bring winter weather to the capital in an effort to combat a lingering drought, state media reported.

Beijing has spent its way to a sugar high. Since last November, Beijing has spent perhaps as much as $900 billion--from its own funds as well as those of the larger state banks--to jump start its $4.3 trillion economy. No government can disburse that amount of cash without creating some economic activity.

The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, held talks with Prime Minister Wen Jiabao of China as his government tried to mend ties with Beijing.

When the best job Mikala Reasbeck could find after college in Boston was counting pills part-time in a drugstore for $7 an hour, she took the drastic step of jumping on a plane to Beijing.

Beijing could have used the crisis as an excuse to slow market reform. Instead, it's all systems go.

The US reports on China's increasing "disruptive" military reach and calls for more transparency from Beijing.

The Chinese lunar probe Chang'e 1 crashes into the moon in what Beijing describes as a controlled collision.