Having “ulterior motives” (别有用心, bié yǒu yòng xīn), an accusation often lobbed at critics of the Party-state, is sometimes deployed in tandem with the term “foreign hostile forces” (境外势力, jìngwài shìli). Such...
A stray balloon has precipitated a full-blown diplomatic crisis in U.S.-China relations. Secretary of State Antony Blinken canceled a planned trip to Beijing to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping after NBC News reported that...
Canada’s House of Commons voted 266-0 on Monday to recognize China’s treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang as genocide, making it the second country in the world after the United States to make the designation. Prime...
On the Trump administration’s last full day in power, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo designated China’s treatment of Uyghurs and other ethnically Turkic minorities in Xinjiang both genocide and a crime against humanity. In 2017,...
The State Department announced on Wednesday that six Chinese media outlets were being designated as “foreign missions,” the latest move in an ongoing tit-for-tat between the U.S. and China over media organizations. For The Hill,...
The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that Chinese authorities have revoked the press credentials of three of its reporters: Josh Chin, Chao Deng, and Philip Wen. Although China has repeatedly wielded bureaucratic delays...
Following reports of forced labor, political indoctrination, abuse, and deaths within Xinjiang’s...
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson yesterday delivered public remarks from Washington to mark...
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson embarked on his first diplomatic trip to Asia this week,...
China’s State Council Information Office has issued the “Human Rights Record of the United States...
The U.S. State Department has documented human rights conditions in countries around the world...
Human rights lawyer and activist Teng Biao, living in the U.S. since 2014 as the situation for...
The State Department is under fire for allegedly watering down a global report on human...
In a report released on Friday by the State Council Information Office, the Chinese government...
A U.S. embassy Weibo chat on human rights was moved to Twitter after the Weibo account set up for...
While China often voices suspicion that the U.S. is trying to undermine it, president Barack Obama...
At his Senate confirmation hearing last month, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry expressed caution over the Obama administration’s ‘pivot’ to East Asia, warning that it risked unnecessarily antagonizing a wary...
In the latest installment of China File’s Conversations series, Elizabeth Economy, Andrew J. Nathan and Orville Schell respond to Nina Hachigian’s recommendations to new U.S. secretary of state John Kerry. In a...
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