He has even been able to turn back the economic reforms which were introduced by Deng Xiaoping. There are indicators, however, that the China elite has begun a tentative search for a leader to replace ...

A remark made by Zbig Brzezinski about China’s trajectory, cited by Edward Luce in his recently published biography of the cold war warrior, describes how the west misread China. Luce repeats this ...

World leaders have realised this is not the moment to be happy or relieved. It’s a moment to be paranoid, to use every means—including big explicit subsidies—to rebuild production capacities of rare ...

Driving the newsLast week in Beijing, China’s Communist Party gathered for its Fourth Plenum. The Plenum was held to outline ...

At the Fourth Plenum of the Communist Party of China’s leadership, President Xi Jinping outlined a bold shift in China’s ...

Central Tibetan Administration President Penpa Tsering announced plans for a global conference to challenge China's historical claim over the 1793 \"go ...

BYD, the Chinese car manufacturer competing with Tesla to be the world’s leader in electric vehicles, has experienced a meteoric rise. Its ascent is of the kind that only seems possible in the ...

An increasing number of wealthy customers from mainland China are using Hong Kong to diversify their investments and expand their businesses globally, according to a senior executive of Hong ...

Mr Xi is firmly in charge, and unabashed about showing the party and the world that he will dump anyone deemed to be a bad ...

We spoke to the Chinese businessman and academic Victor Gao from the Centre for China and Globalisation in Beijing. We began ...

The president’s parade of ad hoc deals with companies benefits his political allies and punishes enemies, but doesn’t enhance national greatness. Founded in 1969, the Washington Monthly is an ...

A seemingly offhand remark from Trump signals the return – at least rhetorically – of an idea once proposed and dismissed by ...