By Clare Jim and Yukun Zhang HONG KONG (Reuters) -China Vanke CEO Zhu Jiusheng was detained by public security authorities on Wednesday and a Shenzhen government task force has stepped in to oversee the property developer's operation,

The top executive of China Vanke Co., one of the country’s largest property firms, was taken away by police, the Economic Observer reported, citing unidentified sources.

The head of one of China's biggest property firms has been "taken away" by police, state-backed media reported Thursday, as a prolonged housing slump continues to hit the world's second-largest economy.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio painted a dark vision of the consequences of America’s “unbalanced relationship” with China

Donald Trump's former primary opponent Sen. Marco Rubio is meeting with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday as the president-elect's secretary of state nominee.

Trump is inaugurated for a second term. Rubio said confronting China would involve building U.S. domestic industrial capacity. "If we stay on the road we're on right now, in less than 10 years, virtually everything that matters to us in life will depend on whether China will allow us to have it or not.