One quarter of the century has gone, and it’s having a bit of a quarter-life crisis: John Rentoul looks back and picks out ...

India has adapted to a strategic environment in which stability is maintained through preparedness and balance rather than trust ...

What’s in store for the world next year? As our correspondents looked ahead, the thread stitching it all together – or ...

She was given the “hardest job under heaven”: upholding birth limits enforced by often brutal local officials. She came to support softening the policy, then abolishing it.

China. At the beginning of the year, the world’s second-largest economy appeared to be in steep decline. Economists predicted ...

Two stories stand out from John Ellis's News Items: the rise in gold prices and China's rapid nuclear expansion.

The abrupt cancellation of an independent Chinese film festival in New York reveals how Beijing and its proxies increasingly ...

The US accused China of engaging in unfair trade practices in the semiconductor sector, but is declining to impose additional ...

The United States can either accept China’s dominion or will have to deprive China of the thing it needs most to fuel its ...

Draft Pentagon report warns China has likely deployed over 100 ICBMs and is rapidly expanding its nuclear arsenal, with ...

A Pentagon draft report, highlighting China's military expansion, claims over 100 intercontinental ballistic missiles were ...