Plan sets out 17 priority areas for development including searching for habitable planets and exploring quantum mechanics.

Photos published by the Navy prior to the announcement showed the aircraft carrier was underway in the Third Fleet area of ...

The continent is 30.37 million km² and covers 20 percent of the planet's land area and six percent of its total surface area.

China’s military started a new round of war games near Taiwan on Monday, saying it was a warning to the “separatist acts of ...

HONG KONG -- China's economy expanded at an annual rate of 4.6% in the July-September quarter, the government said Friday, in ...

Consumption and factory output figures beat forecasts, but a tumbling property sector remains a major challenge as Beijing ...

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Taiwan has condemned the latest round of Chinese military drills around the self-governing island as an “unreasonable ...

China's military exercises are a follow-up to big drills conducted earlier this year and suggest what the use of force ...

China unveiled on Tuesday its first-ever national-level development program for medium- to long-term space science, which ...

China has unveiled an ambitious road map to surpass the United States and ... It is the first such plan unveiled in China and sets out 17 priority areas for development. They include searching ...

Newsweek's weekly update maps aircraft carrier movements in the ... The U.S. has the world's largest aircraft carrier fleet with 11 in service. China ranks second with three ships.