Given China’s importance to the world economy and its ongoing competition with the United States for global power and legitimacy, the opaqueness of China’s political system and its lack of an ...

China has built 350 new missile silos and expanded nuclear warheads by 20% in one year, reaching "war footing," according to ...

President announces historic increase in defence spending as Chinese aggression towards autonomous island escalates ...

The U.S. strategy appears to have overlooked a central component of China’s influence in Mexico.

Nepal’s Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli (second from right) shakes hands with China’s President Xi Jinping ahead of attending Victory Day military parade in Beijing, China, Sep. 3. 2025. Less than a ...

The often misunderstood system is more of a “sprawling regulatory infrastructure" than a universal social score, one analyst says.

Thirteen years after Xi Jinping ascended to the top of China’s leadership hierarchy, observers in Washington remain deeply confused about how to assess his rule. To some, Xi is the second coming of ...

Beijing hit back Wednesday at Secretary of State Marco Rubio for saying the world will "never forget" the deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, describing his remarks as an "attack" on China.

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Several news stories today report that China is signaling openness to trade talks.

The administrative machinery for political prisoner advocacy around the world is not as robust as one might expect. Given the emphasis the CCP places on taking political prisoners, the US government ...

BEIJING: Chinese Premier Li Qiang said on Friday that China stands ready to work with South Africa to deepen political mutual ...