Some saw what happened in Venezuela as a playbook for seizing Taiwan, while others warned about ideological rigidity.

“Reading banned books behind closed doors on a snowy night is one of life’s greatest pleasures,” goes a popular saying in China. It is often (perhaps mistakenly) attributed to a 17th-century scholar, ...

Discussion about personnel issues within Chinese politics has been rampant of late. In Japan, the media has been reporting on President Xi Jinping’s supposed health issues and has even suggested that ...

China-Taiwan tensions reach new heights as Beijing conducts largest military drills, responding to massive $11 billion U.S.

China launches largest military drills ever around Taiwan as war tensions spike following record $11.1 billion U.S. arms sale ...

Since its launch, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has struggled to cope with the political challenges of infrastructure development in low-income and often politically unstable developing ...

SINGAPORE—China has purged its second-most senior general and eight other high-ranking military commanders, as leader Xi Jinping dials up a crackdown on corruption and disloyalty in the armed forces ...

President Donald Trump isn’t going to bulldoze China on trade like he did Europe. Two days after the EU agreed to a framework trade deal with the White House that some of the bloc’s national leaders ...

China is not a black box. While Xi Jinping’s consolidation of power has brought tighter control over dissent and leaks, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) now produces more routine political ...

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