After a decades-long infrastructure spending spree, many of China’s local governments now find themselves saddled with unsustainable levels of debt and a surplus of vastly ambitious but often underutilized infrastructure...
U.S. measures against China’s burgeoning tech sector are set to continue despite an anticipated truce in the two countries’ ongoing trade war, The Wall Street Journal’s Bob Davis and Katy Stech Ferek reported...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
At The New York Times, Ian Johnson provides an in-depth look at the creation of Jing-Jin-Ji, a new...
On May 16, tens of thousands of Linshui residents clashed with police after protesting the...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
China’s High Speed Rail network has rapidly expanded beyond the shadow of early disaster to...
After a consortium led by state-owned China Railway Construction won an uncontested contract to...
Li Keqiang’s three-day visit to the U.K. got into full swing on Tuesday, with the Chinese premier meeting both the Queen and his British counterpart David Cameron. Deals and declarations were announced, covering trade...
At Foreign Policy, author of Train: Riding the Rails That Created the Modern World — From...
Mark Stone at Sky News spoke to passengers on China’s high-speed trains about the...
The opening of the Shenzhen-Xiamen and several other high-speed rail lines on Saturday brought the...
The New York Times’ Keith Bradsher reports that high-speed rail has, “without a doubt,...
Liu Zhijun, China’s former Minister of Railways, was removed from his post in February of 2011. After a lengthy investigation, Liu was formally charged with corruption, malpractice, and abuse of power in April of this...
On a weeklong trade mission to China, California Governor Jerry Brown is seeking to promote Chinese investment in the U.S. state’s enormous but struggling economy, and Chinese media has been taking note. On Friday in...
China’s 12th Five Year Plan (2011-2015) has identified infrastructure development as essential for maintaining economic growth, and under it local governments will be footing the bill for airport renovations, expansions...
In nearly 9,000 words at The Globe and Mail, Mark MacKinnon recounts his recent 22-day train journey around China, loosely following the course of Mao’s Long March. He met officials and protesters, nailhouse residents and...
China has seen numerous protests triggered by fears of chemical pollution. Two incidents in the past month have revolved instead around concerns over health threats from electromagnetic radiation, despite the lack of evidence...
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