Ukrainian president says Beijing is supporting efforts by Moscow to warn leaders off attending Swiss meetingVolodomyr Zelenskiy has accused China of discouraging other countries from attending a peace summit in Switzerland later this month that is aimed at bringing peace to war-ravaged Ukraine.Speaking at Asia’s biggest security conference, the Shangri-La...

Dong Jun rails at length about democratic island’s ‘separatists’ during Shangri-La Dialogue defence conference in SingaporeThe Chinese defence minister, Dong Jun, has warned that anyone who dares pursue independence for Taiwan will be “crushed to pieces” and face “destruction”, as he accused external forces of dragging the island into “a dangerous situation”.In...

Spacecraft to collect samples from rarely explored area after landing heralded as ‘enormous technical achievement’China has landed its uncrewed Chang’e-6 lunar probe on the far side of the moon, marking an important step in the country’s 53-day mission to retrieve rock and soil samples from the “dark” lunar hemisphere, in what would be a world first.The...

Last week’s conviction of dissidents came in the biggest case since introduction of a new national security lawThe verdict wasn’t surprising but outside room no 2 of the West Kowloon courthouse, people still wept. The panel of Hong Kong national security judges had set down two days for the hearing but dispensed with the core business in about 15 minutes....

A hundred years ago, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine set off to conquer the summit. Mallory’s body was later discovered, but now the remains of both are nowhere to be found. Who moved them?“It will be a great adventure,” George Mallory wrote to his mother before leaving for the summit of Everest a century ago this week.His disappearance, along with...

US says 14 protesters have been jailed for ‘peacefully participating in political activities’ that should have been allowedThe Hong Kong government has rejected western criticism of the conviction of 14 pro-democracy activists for subversion, calling it “untruthful, slandering and smearing”.The US said on Friday it was “deeply concerned” about the guilty...