Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, visiting China this week, tells China Real Time he is hosting Chinese manufacturers, shippers and other business people at dinners, lunches and wine tastings in hopes of encouraging a brand-name Chinese company to think of “Old Dominion” as its U.S. home.

China plans a theme park to celebrate Hello Kitty, the cutesy cat with no mouth but a cult-like following…Hello Kitty’s popularity in China can be seen as a counterpoint to Sino-Japanese political tensions by demonstrating the population’s embrace of Japanese style...

With a ban on individual Chinese tourists soon to be lifted, the Taipei City Government yesterday issued travel brochures to attract that growing segment of the industry. The brochures…include introductions to the city’s major attractions, maps and coupons for 32 stores and restaurants.

A 134-member delegation led by PKUPresident Zhou Qifeng is currently paying a visit in Taiwan, aiming to strengthen cross-strait cultural communication and enhance academic partnership between PKU and Taiwanese higher education institutes.

When Dr Manmohan Singh lands in Addis Ababa, the marked difference between India's "soft power" and China's headlong rush into becoming the continent's go-to country for infrastructure is certain to excite debate again

The United States told China on Monday that improvements in human rights and economic reforms would serve Beijing's own interests and promised it was not seeking to contain the Asian power's rise.

The slaying of terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden is expected to prompt the United States and China to review strategies to shore up their influence in Asia.