China's new climate pledge "falls well short" and will make it harder to reach global targets to slow climate change, the European Union's climate chief said on Thursday, as the bloc struggles to agree its own emissions-cutting goal.

The much weaker Tropical Storm Ragasa pushed west along the southern Chinese coast toward Vietnam on Thursday after flooding streets and homes in the economic hub of Guangdong province and causing deaths in Taiwan and the Philippines.

Clean energy is the "trend of our time," Chinese President Xi Jinping said while announcing modest targets for trimming the economic superpower's carbon pollution.

North Korea's Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui will visit China soon at the invitation of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, the North's official KCNA news agency reported on Thursday.

A unit of China’s sovereign wealth fund has reaped paper gains of more than $50 billion buying local exchange-traded funds, highlighting the scale of government support for the country’s stock market,

China on Wednesday committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 7 percent to 10 percent over the next 10 years, marking the first time it has set out a concrete target.

President Xi Jinping told a U.N. climate summit that China will reduce emissions across its economy, expand renewables sixfold and make electric cars “mainstream.”

The deals are a fresh blow for U.S. farmers, who are missing out on billions of dollars of soybean sales to China halfway through their prime marketing season as unresolved trade talks freeze exports and rival South American suppliers led by Brazil step in to fill the gap,

Chinese companies have been making inroads into the US economy with budget-friendly offerings.

Protesters demanding statehood for Ladakh, a strategically important Himalayan region, clashed with the police.