China

The language of force has let Beijing limit and use the island.

Fights about the party’s past are serious business in Beijing.

International terrorist organizations long considered Beijing a secondary focus. That’s changed.

Internal U.N. documents detail the burden foreign envoys face from sanctions and a stiflingly controlling government in Pyongyang.

Outsiders might see a peaking power, but China’s leaders don’t.

Peng Shuai’s disappearance has mobilized the international community—and puts China’s Olympic dreams under even more scrutiny.

Deeper U.S. engagement comes as the wisdom of strategic ambiguity is increasingly questioned.

One of the world’s biggest trade barriers is also a tool of censorship.

Breakthroughs remain elusive, but both sides agreed on need to manage tensions.

Beijing warned U.S. lawmakers the trip would erode the “One China” status quo.

Heated words, frank conversations, and little end in sight to the world’s biggest showdown.

Now that all the major U.S. platforms have left the country, what does the world’s largest social media market look like?

Two decades of counterinsurgency didn’t do it any favors.

Environmental activists are afraid of angering Beijing.