Clean energy is the "trend of our time," Chinese President Xi Jinping said while announcing modest targets for trimming the economic superpower's carbon pollution.

Group of Seven (G7) members and the European Union are considering price floors to promote rare earth production, as well as taxes on some Chinese exports to incentivise investment, four sources with knowledge of the discussions told Reuters.

President Xi Jinping told a U.N. climate summit that China will reduce emissions across its economy, expand renewables sixfold and make electric cars “mainstream.”

China on Wednesday committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 7 percent to 10 percent over the next 10 years, marking the first time it has set out a concrete target.

China led several countries in announcing new climate plans on Wednesday and offered a veiled rebuke of the U.S. president's anti-climate rhetoric a day earlier at the U.N. General Assembly.

A unit of China’s sovereign wealth fund has reaped paper gains of more than $50 billion buying local exchange-traded funds, highlighting the scale of government support for the country’s stock market,

The deals are a fresh blow for U.S. farmers, who are missing out on billions of dollars of soybean sales to China halfway through their prime marketing season as unresolved trade talks freeze exports and rival South American suppliers led by Brazil step in to fill the gap,

Protesters demanding statehood for Ladakh, a strategically important Himalayan region, clashed with the police.

Tariffs, aid cuts and visa limits under Donald Trump’s foreign policy are eroding US influence in Southeast Asia, where China is increasingly seen as dominant, the Sydney-based Lowy Institute said in a report.