China's top leadership assembled at a Beijing cemetery on August 18 for the funeral of Zhu Rongji, the former premier who steered the country through its most turbulent decade of m......
Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday condemned Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim after he characterized Taiwan as "part of China" in a televised interview and stopp......
China's state broadcaster began airing a 12-episode documentary on Jiang Zemin on August 12, 2026, launching a week of carefully choreographed commemoration ahead of what will be t......
Taiwan's legislature is weighing deep cuts to TaiwanPlus, the island's English-language public broadcaster — and international analysts, former diplomats, and media partners are pu......
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), China's dominant domestic memory chip producer, is in preliminary discussions with authorities in Beijing's Yizhuang Economic and Technological......
Taiwan's top China policy official warned lawmakers on August 5 that a sweeping new set of Chinese exit-entry regulations, set to take effect September 15, are written so vaguely t......
China has launched a year-long nationwide campaign against organized crime beginning in July, with one landmark shift: for the first time, so-called "internet water armies" — coord......
"Battle of Penghu" (澎湖海戰), a major Chinese historical war epic timed to Beijing's pro-unification messaging, has reportedly been denied an official release permit days before its s......
Less than two weeks after former Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen wrapped up a Rome visit in late June, Italy's Senate passed a piece of legislation that had been trapped in legisl......
Papua New Guinea (PNG) declared the immediate shutdown of Taiwan's representative office in Port Moresby on July 16, in a unilateral move that Taipei flatly rejected — and one that......
China's economy grew just 4.3% in the second quarter, the National Bureau of Statistics reported July 15 — the weakest reading in three years and a sharp deceleration from the 5% ......
Chinese military activity around Taiwan has fallen to its lowest level in years even as the long-feared 2027 "Davidson Window" approaches, and Taiwanese intelligence believes it kn......
At 12:01 p.m. on July 6, a Chinese ballistic missile submarine fired a single JL-series submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) that splashed down, as planned, in a designated ......
By 8:30 a.m. on June 24, the queue had already stretched nearly the length of the main hall at the World Economic Forum's Summer Davos in Dalian. All of it was there for one man. P......
The Philippine government formally demanded Thursday that China's state-run China Daily remove an AI-generated video depicting Filipinos as monkeys, with both the foreign ministry ......
National security police arrested five people over "seditious" books reportedly including a Taiwan-published study of identity under Xi Jinping — one day after one of the targeted ......
In late April 2026, Taiwan President Lai Ching-te was scheduled to conduct a diplomatic visit to the Kingdom of Eswatini to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the coronation of Ki......
A decade after an international tribunal delivered a landmark ruling against Beijing's sweeping South China Sea claims, China has not merely maintained its refusal to accept the ve......
Lam Wing-kee (林榮基), the Causeway Bay Books manager whose 2016 press conference exposed his secret detention in mainland China, died on July 2, 2026, at Mackay Memorial Hospital in ......
A wave of unfounded claims that Indian nationals were "flooding" Beijing and "seizing jobs" from Chinese workers spread rapidly across Chinese social media this month, prompting a ......
Sixteen years after Taiwan and China signed the Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA), the deal has outlived the political consensus that produced it — yet t......
As the United States marked 250 years of independence on July 4, Chinese state media and social platforms devoted unusual attention to the milestone, even as Washington, Brussels a......
Every few weeks, the waiting halls of Beijing West Railway Station play host to a quiet drama. Petitioners arriving from distant provinces — clutching folders of documents, court r......
China's Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO), the Ministry of Education, the All-China Youth Federation and the Beijing municipal government opened the 2026 Cross-Strait Youth Summit in Bei......
Xiongan New Area, the flagship "millennium plan" Beijing launched in April 2017 to relieve pressure on the capital, remains largely empty nearly a decade later. Official figures sh......
As China marks the 60th anniversary of the Cultural Revolution this year, a Stanford University scholar who once worked inside China's Communist Party apparatus is drawing a direct......
A small aircraft struck Beijing's tallest skyscraper on Friday afternoon, scattering wreckage across the building's entrance, igniting a fire, and triggering an immediate security ......
China's Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress takes effect on July 1, giving Beijing a sweeping new legal instrument that analysts and foreign governments warn could extend pu......
Two Chinese government vessels entered the restricted waters surrounding Itu Aba Island on June 11 — the first deliberate intrusion since Taiwan formally designated those zones in ......
Released over China's Dragon Boat Festival holiday, director Feng Xiaogang's (馮小剛) new film I Know Who You Are (抓特務, Zhua Te Wu)arrives carrying the anticipation that follows a dir......
The U.S. Department of War announced on June 16 that U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) would officially revert to its former name, U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM). While its a......
A new report projecting that gig workers could account for nearly half of China's entire employed population by 2026 has drawn an unusually swift rebuttal from Beijing, exposing de......
China on Monday, June 22, barred government agencies from buying products made by 46 designated American companies while placing 10 more on a strict export control list, marking t......
When Donald Trump raises the tariff banner, many observers instinctively reach for familiar frameworks — protectionism, beggar-thy-neighbor economics, the ghost of Smoot-Hawley. Th......
Kono Yohei (河野洋平), one of Japan's most consequential postwar statesmen, died on June 8 from pancreatic cancer at the age of 89. To many younger Japanese, he was perhaps best known ......
Taiwan's military has covertly established a cross-border data backup infrastructure in Japan — a move designed to preserve critical command, communications, and operational data i......
Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. has become the first sitting foreign defense minister sanctioned in the history of Chinese diplomacy. The move is more than an esc......
A viral message circulating on Taiwanese social media has alleged that Beijing is quietly engineering a demographic shift in central Taiwan — a claim that fact-checkers have traced......
Taipei says Beijing has no jurisdictional basis in waters east of Taiwan — and is using the Japan-Philippines EEZ talks as a pretext to manufacture one.Taiwan's government delivere......
Beijing's five-day enforcement operation inspected 198 vessels and mapped the seabed east of Taiwan — then state media declared the waters China's new "coastal sea."
China's mari......
When KMT Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) made a high-profile visit to the United States, the Democratic Progressive Party responded with barely concealed fury.What set it off was a p......
When the New York Times screened a video interview with Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) at its annual DealBook Summit last December, few expected the fallout to land on a jou......
On the 37th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has issued a formal statement demanding that the Chinese government con......
Home prices in China's top-tier cities have begun to recover, but the rebound marks a structural shift rather than a broad revival of the country's once-dominant property sector.
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China's State Council on June 1, 2026 formally published the Outbound Investment Regulations (對外投資法), set to take effect on July 1. The rules establish a clearer framework for Chin......
