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One person is killed and 23 others are injured after a tornado hits Jiangsu, China.
2022-07-20

China announces that it will replace their existing two-child policy with a new three-child policy, allowing couples to have three children, in order to increase the country's declining birth rates. China's fertility rate is currently 1.3, which is below the level needed to maintain a stable population.
2021-05-31

China lets its currency drop to its lowest reported level since 2008 and also asks its state-owned companies to halt imports of U.S. agricultural products. In response the U.S. Treasury Department designates China as a currency manipulator.
2019-08-5

The last known female Yangtze giant softshell turtle, the world's largest species of freshwater turtle and one of the most endangered species on the planet, dies at Suzhou Zoo in China.
2019-04-13

Presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte says he will set aside the Philippine claim on the Spratly islands and forge better economic relations with China.
2016-04-15

China is to relax some elements of its one-child policy and announces it will end its "re-education through labour" camps.
2013-11-15

Landslides caused by heavy rain kill at least nine people and trap eight others south of Dingxi, China.
2013-07-26

Japan scrambles fighter jets in response to a Chinese plane seen near the disputed Senkaku Islands, marking the first time aircraft are involved in the dispute.
2012-12-13

Thirty-six people are killed in a bus crash near Yan'an, Shaanxi province of China.
2012-08-26

Japan is to deport 14 pro-China activists who landed on the disputed Senkaku Islands.
2012-08-16