US lawmakers have expressed concern to the UK about China’s plan to build a massive embassy in London as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer prepares to meet President Donald Trump. Chris Smith, Republican chair of the Congressional Executive Commission on China,

With more than 8,000 family offices globally managing an estimated $3.1 trillion in assets, it’s set to rival the hedge fund industry in size. Major financial hubs -- from London to Dubai, Hong Kong to Singapore -- are actively competing to capture a slice of this booming market.

Ahead of British PM Keir Starmer's Washington trip, two House lawmakers say outpost would help Beijing 'intimidate and harass' dissidents Republican lawmakers in Washington are sounding the alarm over China's plans to build a large embassy in London,

Two of his victims were attacked in London, when Zou was living in student accommodation in Bloomsbury and at a £4,000-a-month rented apartment in Elephant and Castle. Eight more women were attacked in China during Zou’s trips home, in offences spanning from 2019 to May 2023.

Republican lawmakers in Washington are sounding the alarm over China's plans to build a large embassy in London, urging the British ambassador to raise the issue with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer during his trip this week to the US capital.

China's gold reserves rose to 73.61 million fine troy ounces at the end of February from 73.45 million at the end of January, as the central bank kept buying the precious metal for a fourth straight month.

This is the 10th straight year of single-digit growth in China’s military budget, which analysts say reflects the country’s long-term security objectives in balancing deterrence with modernisation.

Napoleon declared, “When China wakes, she will shake the world.” As modern China continues to grow in global influence, it was back in the early nineteenth-century that a little-known English individual spent 40 years travelling and engaging with communities across the region - printer,

Chinese President Xi Jinping reads during a speech by Premier Li Qiang at the opening session of the National Peoples Congress, or NPC, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 5, 2025. Charlie Campbell is a correspondent at TIME, based in the Singapore bureau.