Political reform paved the way for the collapse of the Qing dynasty, and it is coming for Beijing once again. Right after New Year’s Day, Peking University Professor Zheng... Read more »
From Russia’s meddling in the U.S. 2016 presidential election to China’s “influence operations” in Australia and the United States, it is clear that the manipulation of information in pursuit... Read more »
Western nations have criticized but failed to impose punitive measures for China’s internment of as many as one million Uighur Muslims in de facto concentration camps. As evidence mounts... Read more »
China is awash with data and most of it has been rather depressing. Just hours after the opening day of high-level trade talks concluded in Washington, the National Bureau... Read more »
Cracks are opening in China’s mighty economy: investors are backing away from deals, factories are moving abroad and companies are shedding jobs. The world’s second-largest economy is losing steam,... Read more »
Billionaire investor George Soros on Thursday (Jan 24) said Chinese President Xi Jinping was “the most dangerous enemy” of free societies for presiding over a high-tech surveillance regime. “China... Read more »
Huawei Technologies founder Ren Zhengfei spoke to reporters on Tuesday with a calm that belied the significance of the occasion. It was the media-shy CEO’s first meeting with foreign... Read more »
Branded a “sponsor of terrorism” by the Trump administration for failing to act against extremism, Pakistan has sought to polish its image by decreeing that only the state has the... Read more »
The launch this month of a high-throughput communication satellite, the Shijian-13, has brought the number of Chinese satellites orbiting the earth to 170. That feat is being trumpeted by... Read more »