Amy Hawkins

Senior China correspondent Amy Hawkins breaks down the US-China summit and the personal rapport between the world’s two most powerful leaders

Asked before he departed for Beijing if he would raise with the Chinese president the case of Jimmy Lai , the pro-democracy activist jailed in Hong Kong, Donald Trump said: “I'll bring him up.”

Change reflects both transformation of US in Trump era and China’s increasing confidence on world stage

Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin exchanged “congratulatory letters” on Sunday ahead of the Russian president's visit to Beijing this week, four days since Donald Trump left China after a high-stakes summit

Amy Hawkins in Beijing Xi said bilateral cooperation between Russia and China had “continuously deepened and solidified”, Chinese state

Suited and booted in a navy twinset tracksuit and colourful high-top trainers, Wang Runguo is hustling.

Suifenhe, a small city in China’s economically depressed rust belt, is a microcosm of an evolving Chinese-Russian trading relationship

Russian leader says relations between two countries have reached ‘unprecedented level’ on eve of 25th visit to China

Dong Guangping has tried to escape on several previous occasions after been jailed for his activism in China

Ian Sample hears from senior China correspondent Amy Hawkins and from Nathan Lepora, professor of robotics & AI at Bristol University, who researches how robots can achieve human-like dexterity