Panda diplomacy can help strengthen China’s international relationships, but it also exposes Beijing to public backlash.

The sentence for the media mogul, along with long prison terms for his editors, shows how Hong Kong enforces Xi Jinping’s red lines with a new severity.

For China, Sanae Takaichi’s decisive mandate raises concerns because she is widely viewed as one of Japan’s most outspoken critics of Beijing.

Last week, Beijing’s release of China’s national birth count for 2025 left demographers stunned. The national birth total plummeted by over 17% from 2024 to 2025, the PRC disclosed. That sort of precipitous drop is almost never seen in stable modern societies,

China is shrinking as more couples are making a conscious choice not to have babies, a challenge for President Xi Jinping's ambitions.

When China’s property market collapsed in 2021, its leaders scrambled to find a new driver of economic growth to replace housing construction. More investment in infrastructure, which had powered much of the country’s boom for decades,