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After years of acrimonious economic relations with China, the U.S. insists it wants to turn the page and develop closer ties ...

HTC plans to start selling a smartphone based on Google's Android operating system next month in China, the first such Google-based phone in the world's biggest wireless market.

Chen Fuchao, a man heavily in debt, had been contemplating suicide on a bridge in southern China for hours when a passer-by came up, shook his hand and pushed him off the ledge.

Thousands of opposition supporters protest against the Taiwan president's policies of engagement with China.

President Obama will announce the nomination of a leading Republican governor, Jon Huntsman of Utah, as the U.S. ambassador to China, an official confirmed.

Wal-Mart has always been an intimidating taskmaster in China, extracting the lowest possible prices from suppliers. Last year it raised the bar a notch for these thousands of mostly small manufacturers, requiring that they meet or exceed all local environmental regulations. Wal-Mart gives them tips on how to boost energy efficiency and cut consumption of raw materials. It also delivers a blunt threat: Manufacturers have until 2012 to meet the new standards or risk being cut from the supply chain.

China's is building its first sexually explicit theme park, and the giant genitalia sculptures and suggestive exhibits are getting many people hot and bothered in a country where talking about sex is still taboo.

Get ready for a stronger, more independent China.

A new book by the deceased former Communist chief ousted for refusing to suppress the 1989 protests offers a rare look at the struggle.

A Defense Department official was charged Wednesday with feeding classified information to an agent for the Chinese government.