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.

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.

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.

Participants at the London summit for Ukraine on March 2 tried to put on a brave face even as multiple dilemmas confronted the Europeans.

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.

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,

Even Pay, an agriculture analyst at policy research consultancy firm Trivium China, told Reuters: "It's notable that Beijing's response is restrained. Trump has now imposed a total of 20 percent tariffs on all Chinese products. China's tariffs impact a limited number of U.S. products and remain below the 20 percent level.

The 8.5-mile-long wall that surrounds Xi’an, touted as one of the best-preserved walled fortifications in China, could be the next UNESCO World Heritage site.