You can’t understand the world without understanding China. No country has had a less predictable, more dynamic impact on the world in the past 40 years — and the next 40 will be no different.
According to a new Gallup poll, 79% of Americans now have an unfavorable view of China — more than right after the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989. Pew, meanwhile, found that nine-in-ten Americans see China as a competitor or enemy.
Beijing unexpectedly announced last week that it had found “pests” in Taiwanese pineapples, and banned their import. Taiwan called it an “ambush,” and drew a parallel to China’s targeting of Australian wine.
India-China tensions now appear to be at their lowest level since the two countries’ latest border clash began 10 months ago.
Every country with a distant-water fishing (DWF) fleet engages in illegal fishing, but China has the largest DWF fleet in the world. The recent presence of Chinese vessels off the coast of several South American countries has alarmed environmental authorities in the region.
The exceedingly rare admission of military combat fatalities from Beijing comes after eight months of silence. It appears to be a recognition that tensions with India are successfully deescalating, after an agreement to disengage at one of the many border conflict areas, Pangong Lake.
Chinese vaccines against COVID-19 are providing low- and middle-income countries with solutions in a time of need. They have helped fill a void left by Europe and the U.S.
Beijing has remained largely quiet about the coup d'état in Myanmar, a country with which it shares a 1,300-mile border. Examining China's complicated relationship with its "friendly neighbor" might explain why.
A month after Chinese regulators issued new rules on export controls for rare earth elements, the Financial Times reports that Beijing is evaluating what impact a targeted move could have on the ability of the U.S. to make F-35 fighter jets.
"It feels like a slap in the face." Runako Celina and Seron Tamerat, two of the managers of Black Livity China, react to the latest in a series of incidents of anti-Black racial insensitivity in China.
The BBC’s TV news broadcasts have never been available to ordinary Chinese households, but you could watch them via satellite in five-star hotels and luxury apartment complexes. No longer.