Bloomberg Indian and Chinese officials say soldiers from both sides have begun falling back along their contested Himalayan border that last month saw the worst flare up of violence in four decades. The People’s Liberation Army was seen removing tents and structures in the border area, following the last meeting between the senior commanders of both nations, an Indian government ...

Bloomberg China refused to rule out blocking Hong Kong citizens from leaving to take up Boris Johnson’s offer of a new home in the UK, criticising the British government for “gross interference” in Beijing’s affairs. “We have to wait and see,” Liu Xiaoming, China’s ambassador in London, told reporters on a video conference call. “We have to decide our counter-measures ...

Bloomberg Beijing police arrested an outspoken critic of Chinese President Xi Jinping morning as his administration took steps to crack down on potential threats to the Communist Party stemming from the economic fallout of the pandemic. Xu Zhangrun, a law professor at Tsinghua University, was taken away by police from his house at a Beijing suburb, according to his friend, ...