TAIPEI (Reuters Life!) - Chinese officials have it hard because they drink themselves nearly to death. Soldiers earn so little they can't even afford to beat their wives. Natural disasters help ...

An old video of Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen shows her laughing in parliament about the state's purchase of circus animals, contrary to posts claiming it shows her mocking China's failure ...

HONG KONG — Days after comedian John Oliver mocked China’s president, Xi Jinping, on his HBO program, authorities in that country now appear to have blocked internet users from gaining access to the ...

WASHINGTON — Comedian Xi Diao says he knows he should avoid talking politics on stage, but sharing a family name with Chinese President Xi Jinping makes it hard to resist. Even his name is politically ...

(Update: Zhai Xiaobing’s name was misspelled in an earlier version of this story.) As jokes go, it was hardly funny. Ahead of China’s 18th Communist Party Congress, which saw the top leadership ...

On Friday, China hit the US with a 125% tariff on imports. The move is the latest in a series of tit-for-tat tariff increases. China accused the US of "bullying" and said it risked becoming a "joke" ...

China‘s leadership transition has seen an explosion in the art of Pekingology, the Soviet-inspired art of trying to figure out the intentions of the country’s rulers despite a shortage of key facts.