Zhu Rongji, former Chinese premier and one of the most influential economic policymakers of the reform era, died in Beijing on the morning of August
12 at the age of 98.
An offici......
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......
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......
Taiwan's Ministry of Interior formally petitioned the Constitutional Court on July 30 to dissolve the China Unification Promotion Party (CUPP, 統促黨), presenting years of court-docum......
Two weeks after a stranger followed him into a Taichung hotel lobby and punched him in the face, Akio Yaita (矢板明夫) has no interest in discussing whether he will now choose his word......
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 ......
On July 6, 2026, a Chinese Type 094 "Jin-class" nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine launched a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) into the Pacific Ocean, marking t......
As tensions across East Asia continue to rise, China's People's Liberation Army Navy fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile into the Pacific on July 6 — a test that breached ......
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......
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......
A provincial task force in Henan is investigating a pattern in which at least 21 refrigerated trucks, hauling cargo worth millions of yuan, were diverted off their intended routes ......
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......
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......
The 37th anniversary of China's Tiananmen Square massacre falls on June 4, and for the first time in more than three decades, Beijing has prohibited members of the Tiananmen Mother......
China's ruling party has published a pointed rebuke of a governance pattern embedded across its local bureaucracy — one in which officials systematically avoid making independent ......
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......
Taiwan's legislature has yet to reach consensus on a proposed eight-year, NT$1.25 trillion special defense appropriations bill—formally titled the Special Act for Strengthening D......
Why Did a Single Phrase "Lying Flat" Trigger Nationwide Mockery?
On April 28, China's Ministry of State Security published an article on its official WeChat account accusing "fore......
How Beijing's Anti-Independence Drive Shapes Cross-Strait TensionsA high-profile meeting between Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping (習近平) and Kuomintang (KMT) Ch......
A retired Navy major and former lieutenant commander, Lu Li-shih (呂禮詩), recently traveled to China to tour a People's Liberation Army Navy vessel, publicly stating that he witnesse......
Kuomintang Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) is leading a party delegation to China from April 7 to 12, after being formally invited by the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee an......
China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) has significantly intensified pressure on Taiwan, with Taiwan's National Security Bureau (NSB) warning that Beijing has organized a so-called......
For the first time in a decade, the leaders of the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party are set to meet face to face. The world has changed dramatically since their last summ......
A recent examination of State Department records from 1949 housed at the U.S. National Archives illuminates a pivotal "what if" in modern history: Did the United States ever seriou......
Yusuke Anami (阿南友亮) is a professor at Tohoku University's Graduate School of Law, born in 1972, and holds a doctorate from Keio University's Graduate School of Law. His research fo......
On Feb. 11, Taiwan's political gridlock over the Executive Yuan's Special Procurement Act for Enhanced Defense Resilience and Asymmetric Warfare Capabilities finally showed signs o......
Beijing's top political advisor has signaled a potentially significant softening in China's Taiwan policy, dropping standard rhetoric about "inevitable reunification" in favor of l......
their military influencetheir military influenceOn the afternoon of January 24, China's Defense Ministry suddenly announced that Central Military Commission members Zhang Youxia (張......
Chinese Military Purge Signals Shift in Taiwan Invasion Risk AssessmentBeijing's recent announcement of investigations into Zhang Youxia (張又俠) and Liu Zhenli (劉振立) has sparked inte......
In early 2026, Beijing released figures claiming that the Communist Party's disciplinary system punished a record number of individuals over the previous year. On the eve of the ro......
According to sources, the "KMT-CCP Forum" that has been suspended for 9 years is confirmed to restart! It is expected that KMT Vice Chairman Hsiao Hsu-tsen will lead KMT think tank......
A stranger verbally provokedDemocratic Progressive Party Legislator Puma Shenduring an evening stroll with his family on December 7. Shen claimed the man repeatedlywaved a phone's ......
