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......
Japan and the Philippines have announced the launch of formal negotiations to delimit their Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) and continental shelf boundaries — a move that has drawn ......
In the volatile theater of major-power politics, the international community has spent the days following last week's high-stakes Trump–Xi summit in Beijing dissecting every diplom......
When Donald Trump sat down with Xi Jinping in Beijing on May 15, neither government's official readout mentioned Taiwan's arms purchases. Trump himself, however, was considerably l......
The Trump-Xi summit held in Beijing from May 13 to 15 concluded without the major breakthroughs many had anticipated. President Donald Trump led a delegation of American business e......
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in the Chinese capital just days after U.S. President Donald Trump concluded his own visit, in a sequence of high-profile summits that unde......
Taipei officials acknowledge Trump's remarks and thank Washington for its concern over cross-strait stability; the Presidential Office says more details will be released as develop......
The most consequential moment of Donald Trump's China visit did not happen in the room with Xi Jinping. During the roughly 30 hours Trump spent in Beijing, the Chinese leader warne......
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) moved quickly to address public concern on Saturday evening (May 17), posting a detailed five-point statement on Facebook after U.S. President D......
While attending a state banquet in Beijing as part of President Trump's delegation, Elon Musk typed a few words in Chinese on a platform the Chinese government bans its own citizen......
China's state media outlet People's Daily published a lengthy strategic commentary on May 13 that marks a notable departure in how Beijing publicly frames its relationship with Was......
As Donald Trump and Xi Jinping meet on Wednesday, May 14, Taiwan's national security establishment is pushing back against what officials describe as a dangerously distorted narrat......
U.S. President Donald Trump arrived at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Thursday morning for a high-profile summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping — the first such meet......
Security has been tightened around Tiananmen Square for days. A state banquet is planned, along with a visit to the Temple of Heaven. China, theBBC reports, is ready to put on a sh......
One of Beijing's most powerful ideologues used a high-profile cultural gathering this week to project a notably conciliatory posture on Taiwan — just days before U.S. President Don......
Former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor Matt Pottinger has argued that Taiwan's defense posture is quietly shifting — and that recent conflicts involving major powers offer cr......
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi in Beijing on May 6, offering some of China's most pointed criticism of the US-Israel conflict with......
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) successfully visited Eswatini — Taiwan's only remaining diplomatic ally in Africa — despite intense pressure from Beijing that initially blocked......
