China

Washington is likely to impose new controls in the race for a key technology.

As the United States moves closer to a ban on the app, its executives and the Chinese government aren’t doing it any favors.

Ukraine has sparked renewed interest in East Asia tensions.

The best lines from Ryan Hass, Zongyuan Zoe Liu, and James Palmer on the latest China-focused FP Live.

Democracies should act against Chinese economic coercion at their summit this week.

Figuring out who’s ahead is a lot tougher than counting rockets or warheads.

China’s embrace of Russia seems politically risky but Beijing is also benefiting economically and emerging as the dominant power.

It’s become more important than Washington’s official alliances today.

When some cultures are protected more than others.

The Chinese leader may have offered more pushback against Washington than substantive support for Russia.

The power dynamic between Beijing and Moscow has switched dramatically.

Beijing’s aerospace future is uniquely dependent on Western companies. U.S. and EU trade sanctions could bring its indigenous aviation sector to a halt.

Rethinking supply chains is vital for U.S. security.

With the Saudi-Iran deal, Beijing shows there’s a place for its less judgmental, see-no-evil diplomatic approach.

A concerted media campaign has not done much for Beijing’s image.

Li Qiang is now the second-most powerful person in China. What will he do with it?

Neither Beijing nor Washington seems capable of cooperation or building trust.

Beijing will have a tough time balancing ties with Riyadh and Tehran.

What happens when academic exchanges between the world’s biggest superpowers collapse?

As bans of the video app pile up around the world, the question is how far the U.S.—and its allies—will go.

The peace plan is a big deal—and it’s no accident that China brokered it.

Weijian Shan’s new book is notable mostly for what it leaves out.

Washington has become a convenient scapegoat for Beijing. That says more about Chinese President Xi Jinping than it does about their relationship.

Jessica Chen Weiss on why she thinks competition with China is consuming U.S. foreign policy—and what the United States needs to do about it.

Beijing paints Washington as an implacable and inevitable opponent.

Beijing’s phony proposal lays bare its conditions for winning an East Asian war.

The pandemic’s outbreak brought rare reporting freedoms.

The rise of American-made chatbots has kicked off a flurry of Chinese activity.

Artificial intelligence development may get held up for political reasons.

Russia’s war is receiving critical assistance from authoritarian regimes around the world. 

The United States is taking a more proactive approach to defending its cyberspace—and everyone else’s.

Washington’s commitment to Taiwan hasn’t been sold to the American public.

Pan Yue is doubling down on the party’s hard-line policies.

How the United States, China, and the former Soviet Union stack up.

A recent leadership meeting hinted at what Xi Jinping’s “intensified” overhaul might look like.

The all-in-one app is also a propaganda tool for the Chinese Communist Party.

Mourning has consumed Xinjiang scholars for a region they can no longer reach.

Local governments are desperate to balance the books with land sales.

Beijing has reinforced its anti-U.S. messaging this week, but lethal aid for Moscow still seems to be a red line.

China can make friends or break legs. It can’t do both.

Beijing and Washington share an interest in rules for climate experimentation.

Manila’s geopolitical shift is more than the Biden administration could have hoped for.

But the West is worried that Kyiv might run out of ammo first.

Private partnerships are upping the Communist Party’s entertainment game.

A rise in worldwide consumption would test an industry built largely on exploitation.

And what we know about China’s infamous eye in the sky.

After a week of shooting down suspicious objects, the White House seems to take a step back.

The story of how decades of U.S. engagement with China gave way to estrangement.

Xi Jinping’s signature foreign policy is a “shadow of its former self.”

Covert U.S. intrusions into Chinese airspace were common for decades.

So unused to being challenged, the United States has become so filled with anxiety over China that sober responses are becoming nearly impossible.

Beijing’s botched high-altitude surveillance has provoked a backlash among Biden administration officials and the American public.

The response to the vessel in U.S. airspace shows how the next Cold War could be as overreactive as the first.

An alarming blunder may convince the U.S. public to take Beijing’s threats seriously.

Biden and Blinken must not let the spy balloon controversy stand in the way of talks on nuclear crisis management and arms control.

Tokyo’s abandonment of its post-1945 security stance is another fallout from Russia’s war.

The Chinese leader will probably survive a turbulent time.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has postponed a visit to Beijing in response to a suspected spy balloon over U.S. territory.

Washington is increasingly concerned about China poaching U.S. technology.

Government stimulus and greater exports can’t dig China’s economy out of a deep hole.

Washington hopes the Bongbong Marcos government will allow it to use runways in the Philippines in the case of an armed conflict with China.

Kashmiris fear an expensive infrastructure project will mean more military domination and demographic change.

Washington takes on financial risks that Beijing can’t afford.

It’s time for Beijing to reexamine its long-standing sense of purpose.

Official government data shows cases falling, but the busy travel season could mean another wave.

The next geopolitical contest may be over green technology, and China, for now, is poised to win control of those supply chains.

Ideas like “people’s war” infuse official thinking in China.

Why Beijing’s foreign-policy reset will—or won’t—work out.

Xiongan is a window into Xi Jinping’s ambitions.

COVID-19 infections are surging, but China’s economic growth rate could top 5 percent this year.

A rare confluence of crises has created the possibility of Beijing changing course.

An official acknowledgement of population decline may herald new measures to encourage families.

Washington’s long-held policy has outlived its usefulness.

The Indian government has tread carefully—and invited trouble.

Keeping Chinese firms dependent on Western chips is a better strategy.

The social media app’s data collection practices are not unlike its competitors’, but its links to China add a sinister layer to the debate.

Beijing failed to prepare antiviral supplies before new outbreak.

Zhao Lijian’s move from foreign ministry spokesperson to a backroom role reflects a diplomatic shift.

Personal and political fortunes were made in two decades of real estate madness.

The pandemic years strained every system of government.

Opaque data and limited health care infrastructure raise fears of devastating outcomes in rural areas.

The global division into competing blocs comes at a high price for multinationals.

Amid rampant COVID outbreaks, people are confused and scared.

Guardrails and statesmanship will be even more important this time around.

From a COVID-19 tragedy to a weakened Xi Jinping, here’s what could happen next year.

The country’s pandemic experience should be remembered as a political, not a public health, catastrophe.

The Biden administration has dragged its feet on restricting the Chinese-owned app, but pressure is building for far more drastic measures.

War-gamers plan for Taiwan’s D-Day.

Recent negotiations and elections may put off Chinese aggression.

The skirmish in Arunachal Pradesh reflects Beijing’s confidence—and New Delhi’s diminished deterrence.

China’s autocrat has had a surprisingly bad year.

Other countries have successfully transitioned from strict lockdowns. Beijing has wasted the last three years.

Three experts predict how Beijing will manage China’s economy, the pandemic, protests, Taiwan, and relations with Washington.

A major COVID-19 wave has followed Beijing’s abrupt policy change, closing a year of bad news for the Chinese public.

A new report ties auto manufacturing to Xinjiang’s genocide. Will consumers—and Western countries—care?

With the Ukraine war as a wake-up call, Europe is gradually coming to grips with the China threat.

In 2022, Washington had the advantage in an increasingly bitter relationship.

With zero-COVID effectively over, official numbers can’t keep up with the speed of the omicron variant.

Beijing is still making an example of a rebel city.

The marches against zero-COVID policies have sparked movements worldwide.

New measures signal a shift away from containing the disease—and into the next phase of the pandemic.

Mass protests create a favorable environment for intelligence agencies—but the CIA should tread carefully in China, Iran, and Russia.

Western countries’ reluctance to allow rare-earth mining at home is cementing dependence on China.

As uprisings happen in China and Iran, it’s no accident the United States hasn’t been involved.

Middle-class people, it turns out, have limited patience for things like intrusive social monitoring and censorship of personal expression.

Beijing’s massive expansion of state media hasn’t quite worked as planned. But watch out for Xinhua’s growing global deals.

From their origins to what comes next.

2022 is not 1989, but demonstrations may yet develop in unpredictable ways.

“Xiplomacy” is a political inevitability.

Protests spotlight the regime's misguided approach to the pandemic and lackluster vaccination campaign.

In a U-turn from the Trump administration, Team Biden wants to court African nations without talking about Beijing.

Shaming countries over human rights abuses is unavoidable. But there are better ways to do it.

A new wave of social unrest may be here.

Experts discuss the roots of China’s protests.

The former leader’s mourning period creates an opportunity for public gathering—and political plotting.

With a steady hand—and some willingness to face criticism—he ushered China into the world economy.

An initially soft approach was probably due to confusion, not policy.

A nationwide movement of this scale has no post-1989 precedent.

Local tools of party power have been overwhelmed by zero-COVID.

This challenge to the Chinese Communist Party and the state has been building for some time.

An American classic offers fresh insights into China.

Rising cases have reversed recent changes to the zero-COVID policy, putting cities back under semi-lockdown.

A soccer-loving nation is isolated from the global sport.

To prevent a return to the zero-sum logic of Cold War resource politics, critical mineral supply chains must be widened at every step.

Washington’s crackdown on technology access is creating a new kind of global conflict.

The inside track on the week’s biggest diplomatic gathering.

Smiles and handshakes won’t erase Taiwan tensions.

Taiwan remains the biggest challenge to the U.S.-China relationship.

Tokyo has become an indispensable security actor in the Indo-Pacific.

Beijing has become dangerously locked off from the world.

The Chinese leader met Olaf Scholz last week before appearances in Indonesia and Thailand later this month.

The Uyghur people and the human rights system depend on principled states taking action.

Anti-foreign language has become part of disease control.

In Chinese history, long-term emperors and generalissimos have been far more common than rules-bound leaders.

Elites were uncertain about the new leader’s growing power.

Chinese stocks tumbled after the Party Congress, but with no clear reopening plan, Beijing has bigger economic problems.

Washington has a bold plan to restrict Beijing’s semiconductor imports. The world needs to talk about it.

Markets melted down after China’s 20th Party Congress.

The strategic implications of the 20th Party Congress cut in two different directions.

The latest U.S. moves undermine China’s ability to import, manufacture, and export the semiconductors that run the world.

In their own way, Russia and China are threatening the world’s system for defending human rights.

The most important leaders in China know how to follow orders.

Negative views of Beijing are growing—as is limited support for Taiwan.

Xi Jinping’s unified vision is taking the country into a dead end.

Three experts offer takeaways from the 20th Party Congress.

Draconian policies leave little economic or political hope.

Leninist systems, it turns out, are inherently unstable.

Beijing knows its own military has much in common with Moscow's ineffective force.

Xi Jinping’s predecessor was forcibly led away from the Party Congress.

With China’s leader, what you see is what you get. That’s good news for Western policymakers.

The Chinese leader received rapturous applause during his opening speech, but he didn’t offer a clear plan for confronting ongoing crises.

New Islamic State rhetoric targets Chinese imperialism.

As he consolidates power, China’s leader faces a wide but hapless opposition.

A new history explores an intense period of hope, reform, and death.

A legacy of mistrust hampers the Chinese leader’s decision-making.

As the Party Congress gathers, experts discuss the country’s prospects.

The Chinese leader has taken security worries to a new level.

Succession has always been the Chinese Communists’ Achilles’s heel.

The Chinese president faces tough choices on how to restore the country’s economic momentum.

Who’s in and who’s out after the Party Congress may affect diplomacy.

Bottom line: The world should prepare for a bumpy ride.

The first thing to understand about the event is that the internal power struggles have already happened.

The U.S. president has committed to rapid decoupling, whatever the consequences.

A space for subscribers to submit questions to deputy editor James Palmer.

New U.S. sanctions are in some ways more restrictive than Cold-War era controls.

Beijing and Moscow are failing to produce soft power. But do they really want it?

Cracks have emerged in their marriage of convenience, but the two autocrats are in it for the long haul.

These picks each offer piercing insight into how Chinese politics really works.

The world’s two most populous countries had similar starting points, but China has outpaced India across the board.

What lessons does the sinking of the Moskva have for Taiwan?

A baseless story briefly went viral, showing how much of the world misunderstands Beijing’s inner workings.

The government is inviting snitches to report on “historical nihilism.”

Discontent with the restrictive policy seems to serve as a proxy for discontent with Xi Jinping’s government itself.

Regional groups and small banks are helping insulate Beijing against sanctions.

With no end in sight, nationalism is trumping economic wisdom as global recession looms.

The region has long served as a testing ground for Beijing’s economic and foreign-policy ambitions and is becoming increasingly close to China.

The Russian leader revealed that Xi has concerns over the war in Ukraine.

The Chinese leader’s first overseas trip since January 2020 takes him to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, where he’ll meet his Russian counterpart.

A top lawmaker says China’s game plan is to blockade the island and stop allies from helping out.

The endless cycle of lockdowns will likely lead to long-lasting political and economic consequences.

The nuclear agreement could unleash Chinese activity in the Gulf and complicate U.S. goals in the Indo-Pacific.

Reckless policies have knocked out established norms.

“Volt Rush” examines the price of a dirty green business—and China’s role.

What China learns from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will inform its decision-making on Taiwan.

Compromise is becoming increasingly difficult—especially over Taiwan.

Floods, droughts, tropical storms, and heat waves are severely testing the resilience of a region with a lot of vulnerable people.

Experts debate the country’s trajectory.

The priority is not who would win a war over Taiwan, but how to prevent one in the first place.

Estonia and Latvia are the latest countries to back out of a forum with China, undermining its efforts on the continent.

Beijing’s ambitions are about to crash into its problems.

Despite Beijing’s rhetoric, a full-scale invasion remains a risky endeavor—and officials think the island can be coerced into reunification.

Government critics fear security pact consequences.

Military exercises have stiffened Japanese resolve.

Analysts have been keen to make comparisons to tensions in 1996.

Beijing is running out of recipes for its looming jobs crisis—and reviving Mao-era policies.

Many on social media expressed anger that the government hadn’t followed through on its fiery rhetoric.

“Friendshoring” is the new trend as geopolitics bites.

Beijing is desperate to avoid being trapped in Kabul’s politics.

Editorial imagery often recycles stereotypes and ignores Chinese life.

The controversy over Nancy Pelosi’s proposed trip highlights the contradictions of U.S. policy toward the island.