As U.S. President Barack Obama prepares for his first visit to China next month, one inevitable question arises: How will the trip impact the U.S.-China relationship, which has already become one of the most important partnerships in the world today?

Ever since the Nobel Peace Prize started being awarded in 1901, the Norwegian Nobel Committee in charge of selecting laureates has made many surprising choices.

Barack Obama's unlikely win of this year's Nobel Peace Prize is not the first time the U.S. President—the superpower's first African American commander-in-chief--has made history.

China threw a lavish party Thursday to mark its 60th birthday, with awe-inspiring and jaw-dropping pageantry that could only be compared in scale and glitz with the Beijing Olympics last year.

After careful deliberation and a lot of high-powered lobbying, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has finally chosen Rio de Janeiro to host the 2016 Olympic Games.

Jingjing and Chacha have large black eyes, big heads and short, cute limbs. Since their debut in Shenzhen, China, three years ago, the pair has kind of become celebrities.

Last week, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter interjected himself into a contentious debate. It has been noted that as distinguished figures get closer to the end of their lives, a certain willingness to disregard decorum in favor of blunt truth-telling comes into effect.

U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to slap punitive tariffs on Chinese tires for automobiles and light trucks is certain to draw China's ire.

Lately, the government of U.S. President Barack Obama has come under fire for opening contacts with authoritarian renegade states.

A year ago, just before the opening of the Beijing Olympics, ethnic riots broke out in Xinjiang, threatening to rain on China's international coming out party.