A hacker has allegedly stolen a massive trove of sensitive data – including highly classified defense documents and missile schematics – from a state-run Chinese supercomputer in what could potentially constitute the largest known heist of data from China.

Two fully laden Chinese oil tankers are waiting near the Strait of Hormuz with a third on its way, putting them in a position to become the first such vessels to leave the Persian Gulf under a day-old US-Iran ceasefire,

Car exports, an increasingly important source of growth for China's hyper-competitive auto sector, picked up ​pace in March despite shipment disruptions from the crisis in ‌the Middle East, one of the industry's key overseas markets.

Over Taiwan’s Qingming holiday weekend, as families cleaned ancestral graves and crowded around dinner tables, a familiar debate has resurfaced: should this island democracy rely more heavily on the United States for its security or try to reduce tensions by engaging with China?

Afghanistan and Pakistan said that they won’t “take actions that would escalate or complicate the situation” while China mediates over the deadly cross-border conflict.

China’s new trade front with the world is the export of services such as information and communication technology, construction management, engineering services, data analytics and research and development. And to a lesser degree, financial services and intellectual property rights.

BEIJING, April 9 (Reuters) - China's car sales fell for a sixth straight month in March, as rising fuel prices hit demand for gasoline models while electric vehicle sales still reeled from reduced incentives as the economic recovery is sputtering.