In Kashgar’s largest bazaar a few years ago, I spotted a pencil holder sporting an iconic Cultural Revolution image: Mao Zedong and Marshal Lin Biao smiling together. But Mao’s personally chosen heir apparent had been a nonperson since 1971, when...
Critics say the Party can't hold power much longer if fundamental reforms are not introduced – a notion echoed by an essay in the latest issue of the CCP’s own theoretical journal, Seeking Truth.
Outgoing air force commander General Xu Qiliang, 62, promoted to vice-chairman of the military's top decision-making body.
Pushing China around like a bulked-up version of 1980s Japan doesn't fit a long-term U.S. objective: drawing China into the club of prosperous, rule-bound and democratic nations.
Dropping Mao's name from policy statements hints that the Communist Party may move toward reform.
China's presumptive next president, Xi Jinping, may wish his economy were the juggernaut many...
The two U.S. presidential candidates turned China into a political football. The "China-bashing" hasn't gone unnoticed in China media.
The last U.S. Presidential debate will focus on foreign policy and is sure to discuss Chinese relations.
Xinhua says China's ruling Communist Party will discuss a proposal aimed at strengthening one-party rule over the next five years.
After it was leaked that Xi Jinping, the man...
De Gucht says EU won't back down from fight againt ...
In a new documentary on his life, Sidney Rittenberg, who once translated for Mao, refers to his jailer as both a hero and criminal.
Concern among Chinese officials, executives and academics is growing that U.S. attidudes toward China won't cool post-Election Day.
Earlier this year, we invited the artist Ai Weiwei to visit the United States to take part in the New Yorker Festival, held in early October. At the time, the Chinese government had barred Ai from traveling abroad—an unofficial form of punishment...
If every modern president needs a creation myth, then Xi Jinping's begins on the dusty loess plateau of northwest China. It was here that Xi spent seven formative years, working among the peasants and living in a...
Since withdrawing from the Republican primaries in January, former Utah...
Eight Chinese watched and discussed Tuesday's U.S. presidential debate at the NPR Shanghai bureau.
In May 2012, the United States and China agreed publicly for the first time to begin talks on military aspects of cybersecurity. The agenda and expectations for this process at the official level remain to be set. Through Track 2 processes some...
China Central TV host Yang Rui apologized for calling a female U.S. journalist a “bitch” in a xenophobic rant.
China's two decade explosive growth overshadows a struggling corruption-plagued communist state.
Although the yuan rose nearly 30 percent since 2005, U.S. politicians are still taking jabs at China's currency regime.
It's easier for a Chinese woman to orbit Earth than land a spot atop Chinese politics.
U.S. presidential politics vilifying China obscures how deeply entwined the two countries have become.
China's economic relations with U.S. could feature hotly in next Presidential debate.
China is poised to lose its place as the U.S.’s biggest creditor for the first time since the height of the financial crisis, blunting one of Mitt Romney’s...
In the midst of increasingly heated election rhetoric about China, Beijing has released some important economic data as its currency hits record highs. Both ...
Even before the Swedish Academy announced Mo Yan as the 2012 Nobel Literature Prize winner, the Chinese internet was abuzz with discussion of his work and his relationship with the Chinese government.
Japan’s navy marked 60th year with major exercise, showing off maritime strength amid territorial dispute with China.
Chen Guangcheng said Chinese police sent his nephew, charged with knife attack, to state prosecutor, paving way for unfair trial.
Romney Republican running mate slams President for delaying report on currency manipulation.
Mo Yan, the new Nobel laureate who strenuously avoided antagonizing the Communist Party...
No matter how you look at it, the disciplinary process surrounding the case of Bo Xilai will have historic implications.
Details of the crimes committed by Bo, his wife, Bogu Kailai, and his former right-hand man, Wang Lijun, reflect a...
Mr. Ai, who seems to lose his sense of humor only rarely, has characterized his increasingly dangerous jousting with the Chinese government as a kind of performance art.
To build the case for a robust response to these opportunities and looming risks, this report analyzes Chinese investment in California in depth, mining a unique database for insights about California’s comparative advantages, the Chinese firms...
Talks aim to reduce tensions over territorial dispute, avoid suffering in Asia’s biggest economies.
China has achieved remarkable economic successes over the last three decades. For years, it has led the world in GDP growth. But widespread industrialization and urbanization, along with growth based on increased use of resources, mean the nation...
The forced eviction of people from their homes and farmland has become a routine occurrence in China and represents a gross violation of China’s international human rights obligations on an enormous scale. Despite international scrutiny and...
A little over a year ago, I went with the Chinese writer Yu Hua to his hometown of Hangzhou, some one hundred miles southwest of Shanghai, and realized that his bawdy books might not be purely fictional; their characters and situations seemed to...
Netizens exposing public servants' taste for expensive timepieces has sparked an online and newspaper crackdown. On October 9, Wang Keqin (@王克勤), an Economic Observer (@...
PM calls for talks to contain economic damage from dispute with Japan's No. 1 trade partner.
China is considering lending even more money to bail out the region’s recessionary economies.
Chinese telecomms firms painted as shady, but evidence to back up allegations is hidden in report's classified sections.
China-related holdings by funds in which Mr. Romney has invested are a reminder of how he inhabits two worlds.
After China's Golden Week holiday, a round-up of important recent stories on economy and politics.
By publishing "The One" as an iPhone app, China's superblogger bypassed the State Administration of Radio Film and Television.
The Obama administration has made Asia a top priority for U.S. foreign policy. The move has been dubbed "The Pivot," and it has the potential to be one of the most enduring legacies of the Obama presidency....
The much-vaunted China Model has morphed in the past decade to a one-of-a-kind system of authoritarian capitalism that is in danger of terminating itself – and taking the world down with it. It is also proving...
Ai Weiwei will probably be regarded as the most important artist of the past decade. He is certainly its most newsworthy and arguably its most inspiring. Over the repressions of Chinese authorities, he has used a...
Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies Inc. lashed out Monday at a scathing congressional report, calling allegations that it may be spying on Americans and violating U.S. laws "little more than an...
Just months before his fall from power, ...
Fear of China is back. But it's a nebulous fear, and this creates both an opportunity and an obstacle for the male and female anti-heroes of Christopher Buckley's latest look at the surreal world of lobbyist, the uneven but occasionally hilarious...
First, this was not a political move by the President to position himself as tough on China, as suggested by ...
Ahead of the 18th National Congress, the phrase “socialism with Chinese characteristics” is as strong as ever.
Chinese netizens shared mixed views of the U.S. election, some cynical, some optimistic.
David Levine’s depictions of Chinese notables—and everyone else he drew, for that matter—are so sublime that very often after seeing an image, one is left hardly able to remember what the real person actually looked like.
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Which came first? The corruption or the mistresses? In China, they most often go together. The stories abound: from the corrupt official in Fujian who, in 2002, held the first (and only) annual ...
When looking for Chinese reactions to the anti-Japanese riots that took place in late September, it was probably not much of a surprise that the Western press turned to Han Han, the widely read Shanghai-based...
Liu Xiaoyuan, a lawyer friend of Ai Weiwei, the artist and frequent critic of the Communist...
