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US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will begin a four-day visit to China on Thursday, and is set to meet senior officials to ‘work together to address global challenges’.

Qu Dongyu, who had no rival candidate, received 168 of 182 votes at a general assembly in Rome. The second four-year mandate for Qu is set to last until the end of July 2027.

Analysis will allow the ‘government, business and scientific community to understand modern China better’, says head of institute overseeing the lab.

Beijing issues safety alert after at least five citizens injured amid protests in French port city of Marseille.

The trial highlighted some of the excesses of Beijing’s decade-long effort to repatriate people accused of corruption, analyst says.

Blocking China’s efforts to set global AI standards and hobble its AI ability is of strong interest to the US, observer says.

‘China is the only country with both the intent to reshape the international order and increasingly the … power to do so,’ Central Intelligence Agency chief William Burns said in a lecture in Oxfordshire, UK.

Commerce ministry calls on the Netherlands to ‘refrain from abusing export control measures’ and says Washington is trying to ‘disrupt the supply chain’.

The US should promote unity and cooperation, rather than resist ‘influence of a specific country’, China’s permanent representative to Unesco says.

Okinawan governor Denny Tamaki – who has long opposed US military bases in his prefecture – is expected to visit China from Monday.

The US counter-intelligence centre said an update to Beijing’s anti-espionage legislation, that goes into effect on July 1, could compel companies’ locally employed Chinese nationals to assist in Chinese intelligence efforts.

Issue statement after Brussels meeting that move is to reduce supply chain dependencies, but that EU ‘does not intend to decouple’ from China.

Proposed sale will ‘help build our response to the military threat from the Communist Party of China’, Taiwan’s defence ministry says.