The Chinese auto industry is quietly pressing Beijing officials for help in coping with a sharp slowing in sales growth this autumn, top Chinese auto executives said in interviews.

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain would seek to defend Taiwan and play hard ball with China if he comes to office, but Democratic frontrunner Barack Obama would further sideline Taipei as he courts Beijing.

Tibetan spiritual leader says that he has given up trying to convince Beijing to grant Tibet greater autonomy

Pro-independence protesters in southern Taiwan assaulted an envoy from rival China on Tuesday, pushing him to the ground while shouting that their island does not belong to Beijing.

While China cut rates twice in three weeks, speculation is also swirling that Beijing could chip in with a vote of confidence by pledging to hold onto its vast dollar assets.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Hu Jintao lectured a dairy executive on food safety on Tuesday in a show of government resolve in the toxic milk scandal, even as another Western food brand, Lipton, was affected.

BEIJING (AFP) - The first Chinese man to walk in space was hailed as a national hero Monday, as the emerging space power gave one of its clearest indications yet that it is now reaching for the Moon.

BEIJING (Reuters) - The man who made China's first "footprint in space" started the trip back to earth on Sunday after President Hu Jintao hailed the space walk as major breakthrough in the country's space program.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Astronaut Zhai Zhigang became the first Chinese man to walk in space on Saturday, clambering out of China's Shenzhou VII space craft in a technological feat that Beijing wants the world to marvel about.

BEIJING (AFP) - A Chinese astronaut Saturday became the first in his country's history to complete a space walk, a feat President Hu Jintao hailed as a "major breakthrough" for the emerging space power.