Tea Leaf Nation

The Communist Party's enthusiasm for private Confucian schools is cooling. It could be fearful of a moral system outside its control.

Shady deals. Befuddled investors. SEC investigations. Change can't come fast enough to the EB-5 visa.

Some parents prefer the invasive measure to lightly regulated, frequently brutal bootcamps.

Pressure to save, marry, and work leaves no room for democratic aspirations.

A Chinese regulation would prohibit online insults based on religion. Some decry it as antithetical to Communist values.

The 2017 race for Chief Executive was supposed to be a watershed exercise in democracy. Instead, it may be a coronation.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson surprised many by parroting Chinese talking points, but it's unlikely to signal a policy shift.

Beijing has been criticized for its Great Firewall and online censorship. Now it's looking prescient.

Peter Navarro doesn't speak Chinese, and has scant in-country experience. Should that matter?

The country's got all the right stuff to be a soft-power giant. But Beijing won't get out of its own way.

While Washington rips up trade deals, Beijing sees the region as a “land of vitality and hope.”

Uighur militant groups are splitting, and may now compete to see who can hit China the hardest.