The Japanese Foreign Ministry says a Chinese court has handed down a death sentence for a man charged over a knife attack on a bus carrying Japanese schoolchildren.

In 2017, weeks after Donald Trump’s first presidential election victory, Xi Jinping became the first Chinese head of state to address the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland — winning applause as he inveighed against protectionism and declared that a trade war would hurt both sides.

China’s vast exports in 2024 exceeded its imports on a scale seldom seen anywhere except during or immediately after the two world wars.

Data shows that during last year's Spring Festival rush, travel among those aged 60 and above surged by nearly 30 percent year on year, with more seniors departing from provinces such as Sichuan, Hebei and Hubei to join family members in major cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.

Chinese officials and ordinary people are hopeful but on edge as Donald Trump returns to the White House, eager to avoid a repeat of the bruising trade war that drove a wedge between the economic superpowers during his first term.

A Chinese court deemed the death penalty as appropriate in view of the 'extremely heinous' nature of the crime, which resulted in the death of a bus attendant.

A Chinese court is set to sentence a man next week over a knife attack near Shanghai last June in which a Japanese mother and child

The Suzhou Intermediate People's Court said the Chinese man named Zhou Jia Sheng, 52, accused of stabbing the three at a Japanese school bus stop in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, on June 24, was "debt-ridden" and did not want to continue living, a government official told reporters in Tokyo.

A middle school in China has become the centre of a debate about society’s “worship” of high-ranking universities. Suzhou Middle School is a well-known school in Jiangsu province. It recently announced that it had hired 13 teachers.

By bno - Taipei Bureau A Chinese court has sentenced Zhou Jiasheng, a 52-year-old man, to death for his role in a brutal knife attack in June 2024. The assault, which took place at a bus stop for a Japanese school in Suzhou,

Cafe on the first floor gym and reading center on the second and a fully furnished one-bedroom apartment with a monthly rent of 836 yuan about 116