Leaders of southeast Asian countries gathered in Laos this week for the annual ASEAN summit and the concurrent East Asia Summit attended by major global partners. China, represented by Premier Li Qiang, hailed the “substantial...
China dominates the global electric vehicle (EV) industry. Last year, China accounted for approximately 60 percent of global registrations of new electric vehicles, and China’s EV stock was over 4.5 times greater than that of...
More than three years after the military’s coup d’état, Myanmar remains engulfed in instability and civil war. China has more leverage in Myanmar than any other foreign power, and the ongoing crisis along the China-Myanmar...
Recent public opinion polls from countries in the Global South point to a slight shift in attitudes vis-a-vis China and the U.S. By small but significant margins, a growing number of people in many of these countries appear to...
Reading between the lines of Xi Jinping’s foreign trips is often a subtle art; not so during his latest trip to Vietnam. China Central Television, the Party-state’s premier broadcaster, unwittingly uploaded a video of a...
On Saturday, China officially withdrew from its role as the host of the 2023 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup. The quadrennial event, which brings together 24 national soccer teams from across Asia, was originally...
Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative, a trillion dollar-plus global trade and development program that was unveiled in 2013 and enshrined into the Party constitution in 2017, has attracted both international excitement and...
As Southeast Asian countries continue to face a severe drought amid an extreme El Niño event,...
On Tuesday, November 17, senior Chinese officials faced questions from a U.N. Committee Against...
On Wednesday, Myanmar’s opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi...
In his in-depth profile of Chinese president Xi Jinping at The New Yorker this week, Evan Osnos...
In response to mounting violence in Xinjiang and elsewhere in China, Beijing launched...
According to state media reports, Chinese police shot dead two Uyghurs who were part of a group...
At the New York Times, Edward Wong reports that Thai authorities are on a search for 120 Uyghur...
Bloomberg’s John Boudreau reports calls within Vietnam’s Communist Party for greater...
While China grapples with the economic and demographic consequences of its family planning...
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi, whose sales in China this year have surpassed Apple’s,...
At the New York Times, Austin Ramzy compares China’s 2008 Wenchuan earthquake with the...
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