Japan's new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to pursue constructive and stable ties at a meeting on Friday that may ease fears she would adopt a more combative approach toward Beijing.

China's Xi Jinping took centre stage at an annual gathering of Pacific Rim leaders in South Korea on Friday, expected to hold talks with Canadian, Japanese and Thai counterparts after securing a fragile trade truce with U.

Global shares dropped on Thursday and were set for their biggest daily decline in three weeks, weighed down by megacaps Microsoft and Meta, while the dollar rose against the yen on policy updates from...

Despite Trump and Xi's agreement to extend a truce in the trade war between the two largest economies, Chinese markets declined on concerns over persisting tensions between Washington and Beijing.