Spreading Soft Power Through Language in Africa
China’s Confucius Institutes (CI)–government-funded centers for research and language...
by Cindy | Nov 7, 2017
China’s Confucius Institutes (CI)–government-funded centers for research and language...
by Josh Rudolph | Jul 13, 2017
Beijing this week began dispatching personnel to the Horn of Africa to populate China’s...
by Josh Rudolph | Sep 19, 2016
At the South China Morning Post, Kristin Huang reports that some Chinese foreign policy experts...
by Cindy | Aug 22, 2016
As photographs and video of three-year-old Omran Daqneesh made waves on social media around the...
by Cindy | Jan 27, 2016
President Xi Jinping’s recent trip to the Middle East signals a willingness to revise...
by Josh Rudolph | Nov 20, 2015
Earlier this week, Radio Free Asia reported that police in Xinjiang had killed 17...
by Sophie Beach | Nov 18, 2015
On Wednesday, the Islamic State announced that they had executed a Chinese and a Norwegian...
by Sophie Beach | Sep 10, 2015
As more than four million Syrians flee ongoing civil war, the Chinese government has said the U.S....
by Cindy | Apr 3, 2015
Reuters’ Megha Rajagopalan and Ben Blanchard report that China’s navy has successfully...
by Samuel Wade | Apr 2, 2015
In his in-depth profile of Chinese president Xi Jinping at The New Yorker this week, Evan Osnos...
by Josh Rudolph | Feb 17, 2015
Beijing has been increasing engagement with Afghanistan since Xi Jinping became president in 2012,...
by Cindy | Feb 13, 2015
From Pakistan, China’s foreign minister Wang Yi announced on Thursday that President Xi...
by Josh Rudolph | Jan 14, 2015
Over the past two years, China has been slowly increasing its engagement with Afghanistan, a...
by Samuel Wade | Nov 14, 2014
This week’s Economist examines Kazakhstan’s part in building a new trans-Eurasian “Silk Rail.”...
by Josh Rudolph | Nov 25, 2013
China’s Foreign Ministry has come out in praise of the international agreement on...
by Samuel Wade | Oct 11, 2013
The Diplomat’s Zachary Keck reports that China has passed the U.S. to become the...
by Josh Rudolph | Sep 26, 2013
Seven years covering China for The New Yorker, along with the acclaimed books River Town, Oracle...
by Josh Rudolph | Sep 13, 2013
After voicing opposition to a proposed U.S. attack on Syria at the G20 summit in Russia last week,...