Popular narratives about Chinese leader Xi Jinping are in flux. Just a few months ago, he was widely seen as an unassailable force. But unusually widespread protests in late November, followed by a complete reversal of his zero-COVID policy, have...
In early July 2020, Xu Zhangrun was detained for supposedly having “solicited prostitutes” during a trip with friends to Sichuan in late 2019. He was being persecuted for his unsparing critiques of Xi Jinping, starting in July 2018. The following...
As the dust finally settled on the U.S. presidential election that shook the world, Biden was sworn in as president, and Trump, who tried everything to cling to a second term, slunk out of the capital city of Washington, D.C. in disgrace. Looking...
On the evening of December 29, at a rally in front of Democratic Progressive Party headquarters in Taipei, hundreds of people are shouting in unison. They support Tsai Ing-wen, the Democratic People’s Party (DPP) candidate in Taiwan’s January 11...
Schneewind places the institution of pre-mortem shrines at the intersection of politics and religion. When a local official left his post, grateful subjects housed an image of him in a temple, requiting his grace: that was the ideal model. By Ming times, the “living shrine” was legal, old, and justified by readings of the classics. Schneewind argues that the institution could invite and pressure officials to serve local interests; the policies that had earned a man commemoration were carved into stone beside the shrine. Since everyone recognized that elite men might honor living officials just to further their own careers, pre-mortem shrine rhetoric stressed the role of commoners, who embraced the opportunity by initiating many living shrines.
The forty-five-year-old investigative journalist Jiang Xue is one of the most influential members of a group of journalists who came of age in the early 2000s, taking advantage of new—if temporary—freedoms created by the Internet to investigate...
There can be few jobs more difficult than that of paramount leader of China: the surrounding world invariably alive with danger, the extent of the state, its integrity and stability forever uncertain. For an outsider, it is easy to observe that...
Xi Jinping has had an eventful early spring. After he abolished presidential term limits and was unanimously elected—if it can be called an election—to serve another term in that post, Xi got the world’s attention again by holding a meeting with...
Last week, the Chinese National People’s Congress removed Presidential and Vice-Presidential term limits, effectively allowing current President (and Chinese Communist Party General Secretary) Xi Jinping to stay in power beyond the two terms that...
A few weeks after Stephen K. Bannon left the White House in August, he was invited to a dinner at the Council on Foreign Relations to discuss American policy toward China.
The book was already being promoted as an explosive exposé of Chinese influence infiltrating the highest levels of Australian politics and media. But then, months before it was set to hit bookstore shelves, its publisher postponed the release,...
Quietly, and largely out of sight, China has emerged to become a major player in the foreign aid space, challenging institutions and norms long established by the West. Although China’s international development budgets remain a...
In late July, Beijing Normal University authorities fired Shi Jiepeng, an assistant professor, citing a number of offenses, including "expressing views outside the mainstream of society."
Michael Bristow, the Asia Pacific editor for the BBC World Service, has written a book called China in Drag: Travels with a Cross-Dresser, in which he recounts his time in China—his travels, his reporting, and his myriad experiences—...
After years of denials, China now acknowledges that history and has declared that the practice no longer occurs — largely thanks to the perseverance of a health official who, with the quiet backing of an American transplant surgeon, turned the...
Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen has called on mainland China to work with her government to establish “a new model of cross-strait interactions”.
“The American Chamber of Commerce has urged Hong Kong’s next government to reach out to international businesses still ‘unclear’ about what opportunities the city can offer under the one country, two systems policy.” —
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The Chinese were gloating over the flaws of the American political system long before the election of Donald J. Trump. Coming from an obsessively orderly system, they were again and again baffled by an institutional setup that...
This year's most popular memes reflected a more ruthless and aggressive—but also more fragile—China
Peter Navarro has been picked to lead US trade and industrial policy – a move that may upset Beijing
The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development has been charged with regulating the force that earlier was under the sole purview of local governments
“Friendship” is everywhere in China, at least when it comes to dealing with foreigners. International societies are friendship associations. The...
The youngest woman elected to Hong Kong's parliament has been called many things, including: "radical", "goddess", "spy", "pretty" and "cancer cell"
Spray tans and hair dye: the transformation of a retired music professor into China's Trump impersonator
Beijing will soon discover that Manila’s affections can be fickle
China is expected to sign off on more than $23 billion in loans to Bangladesh to fund a series of large-scale infrastructure projects
Speculation is rife that Xi wants to curb debt-fuelled growth before it destroys the economy and oust premier Li Keqiang.
According to an op-ed in Xinhua, an official state-published newspaper, being an unmarried and childless woman makes Tsai unfit for her job.
China has more economic power than ever before, but its political iron hand makes it hard to win the hearts and minds of Hong Kong and Taiwan.
To seek peace with China, Tsai would need to make her first dialogue proposal that Beijing might accept.
Communist party’s decision not to address the anniversary until 24 hours after it had passed underlined its discomfort.
Zhang Dejiang began his visit by promising to listen to all sectors of society's views.
Each March, some 5,000 delegates from across China gather in Beijing for the annual meetings of the National People’s Congress (NPC),...
The Obama administration’s announcement that it would sell $1.83 billion worth of arms to Taiwan....
A senior American naval commander has implicitly accused China of creating artificial islands in the South China Sea.
Deal to strengthen link between China and Middle
The murder of British businessman Neil Heywood sparked one of China's biggest political scandals.
Even as China burnishes its image overseas, the Communist Party conducts brutal suppression of civil liberties at home.
The Chinese government’s self-declared right to choose living Buddhas extends to the Dalai Lama.
This week, China is crying poverty.
"By saying, 'listen, understand and respect' them, it exposes, in his very bones, his sympathy or endorsement for IS."
“We have indeed called for reinforcements over prominent online problems, this is the truth.”
Four Chinese journalists have been suspended after inadvertently – and incorrectly – announcing the resignation of president.
China held its second-ever National Constitution Day on Friday.
The CPC came into being in 1921, almost a century ago.
China’s successful entry into the international scene after the Cultural Revolution bears lessons for other pariah states.
“We have a treaty obligation, an ironclad commitment to the defense of our ally the Philippines, who can count on the United States.”
"The paratroopers are a new power, a challenge to the government and the central authorities in Beijing."
The possibility of conflict between China and Taiwan is dangerous to the world’s security.
President Obama addressed the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting in Manila, where he discussed China, trade and climate change.
"This is the highest level defense delegation to visit India in the recent years. The visit signifies the enhanced defense exchanges between India and China."
Around the world, there are legendary, dynastic rivalries in football.
Condolence and support from heads of state across the globe poured in to France after Friday’s terror attacks in Paris.
Mr. Vogel is working on a book that will explore moments in history when China and Japan were in closest contact.
Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader of the House of Representatives, visited Lhasa, the capital of Tibet.
