The car, launched last year by Chinese automaker BYD, sells for around $12,000 in China, but drives well and is put together with craftsmanship that rivals U.S. electric vehicles that cost three times as much.

Xiaomi, a well-known maker of smart consumer electronics in China, is joining the country's booming but crowded market for electric cars.

The world’s two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases are sparring on Twitter over climate policy, with China questioning whether the U.S. can deliver on the landmark climate legislation signed into law by President Joe Biden this week.

A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in the southern province of Guangxi on Monday, March 21, 2022, officials said.

China’s Foreign Minister on Monday, March 7, 2022, refused to condemn the war and called Russia Beijing’s “most important strategic partner.”

Three weeks ago, the leaders of China and Russia declared that the friendship between their countries “has no limits” as they met in Beijing on the eve of the Winter Olympics. But that was before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a gambit that is testing just how far China is willing to go.

President Xi Jinping, speaking by video to a U.N. conference said China would put in 1.5 billion yuan and called on other countries to contribute to the Kunming Biodiversity Fund.