China today attacked Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky for meeting with exiled Tibetan leader Sikyong Penpa Tsering. The encounter is likely to aggravate already tense relations between China and the… Read more »
Vladimir Putin’s efforts to curb freedom of expression still face resistance from independent news outlets that have adapted to the new environment by deploying digital tools and using transnational platforms… Read more »
China’s officials, media, and proponents have campaigned to capitalize on the success of zero-COVID to characterize the Communist government as a responsible great power that cares for its people and… Read more »
Are man-made crises like the one in Shanghai inevitable under China’s authoritarian system? China is facing what is arguably the worst crisis in governance since the end of the Cultural… Read more »
Beijing and Moscow advanced a vision of a new world order Wednesday as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made his first visit to key ally China since his country launched its invasion of… Read more »
China cannot endorse Russia’s invasion of Ukraine because the maintenance of territorial integrity is “primordial” in Beijing’s foreign policy, but nor can it align itself with a NATO that it… Read more »
In the year before the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, campuses in China buzzed with debate about how to make the country more liberal. To some intellectuals the West offered… Read more »
The upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing has heightened international scrutiny of the Chinese government’s rights abuses. But even before the games, China’s global public image had taken an enormous beating… Read more »
Chinese authorities have detained two prominent human-rights activists, quietly intensifying a crackdown on dissent weeks before Beijing hosts the most politicized Winter Olympics in recent memory, The Wall Street Journal… Read more »
Britain’s domestic security agency, MI5, sent an unusual alert on Thursday to lawmakers warning that an agent of the Chinese government was actively working to subvert the political processes of… Read more »