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.

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,

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.