In today’s world, power is often imagined as tanks rolling across borders or missiles lighting up the sky. But one expert suggests that true global power today might come in quieter ways — through contracts,

China’s long-projected momentum collided with hard limits at home and abroad. A deepening real-estate slump continued to weigh on growth, eroding household wealth, consumer confidence and local government finances,

China's top leaders are gathering in Beijing this week to decide on the country's key goals and aspirations for the rest of the decade. Every year or so, the country's highest political body, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, convenes ...

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China’s largest and most sophisticated aircraft carrier, the Fujian, is now officially in active service following a ceremony led by Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Photo: Li Gang/Zuma Press Mao Zedong once said that China must wield both the pen and the gun ...

For the first time in decades, German businesses and politicians are questioning the unfettered free trade that turned the country into an industrial powerhouse

WASHINGTON ‒ President Donald Trump accused China of pursuing sweeping export controls on rare-earth minerals and vowed the United States will counter financially ‒ perhaps with a "massive increase of tariffs" on Chinese imports. Trump also threatened ...

GYEONGJU, South Korea — President Donald Trump said Thursday after meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping that he was lowering tariffs in exchange for a crackdown on fentanyl and that he would visit China in April. Speaking to reporters on Air Force ...

Oct. 7 (UPI) --China's surprise declaration of a new nature reserve at Scarborough Shoal is more than a nod to environmental stewardship. It is a carefully calculated maneuver that fuses ecological language with geopolitical ambition, placing one of the ...

In the roughly three weeks since Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi commented on a possible Taiwan contingency in parliament, China has unleashed economic reprisals, nationalist barbs and a diplomatic offensive to show its displeasure. Now, President ...