Top leader Xi Jinping met with Japanese envoy Natsuo Yamaguchi, the highest-level contact between the two countries since tensions over the Diaoyu Islands spiked in September.
Chasing their slice of China’s raging appetite, tens of thousands of African traders are settling uneasily in the ghettos of Guangzhou.
New Komeito leader Natsuo Yamaguchi's meeting on Jan. 25 with Chinese leader Xi Jinping highlighted the differences emerging within the ruling coalition over how to improve ties with Beijing.
During a recent visit to China, many Chinese officials said they believe President Obama’s “pivot” toward Asia is a “stupid choice.”
U.S. policy of engagement with Beijing has not been as effective in shaping its rise to superpower status as Washington had hoped.
All of China's recent investment in Hollywood raises the question: Is China positioning itself to buy a major studio? Three reasons why it will, and one why it won't.
In the first of two articles about the impact of China’s one-child policy, The Economist looks at China's shrinking working-age population.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, China has had the dubious distinction of being North Korea’s only ally and friend on the world stage.
Are Chinese audiences growing weary of anti-Japanese propaganda? It would seem that some, at least, are growing sick of the pathetic villains, superhuman heroes, and lame endings that many Chinese movies and television series about World War II, or what Chinese refer to as the War of Resistance Against Japan, have to offer.
Sanjiangyuan—which literally translates as the “three river source area”—feeds China’s mightiest rivers. The 300,000-square kilometer region, high on western China’s Qinghai-Tibetan plateau, provides a quarter of the Yangtze’s water, almost half of the Yellow River’s, and 10 percent of the Mekong’s.
Crucial as this area is, its environment is deteriorating, with rising snowlines, shrinking lakes, wetland degradation, and reduced runoff. As early as 2001, over 90 percent of Qumarleb county’s wells were found to be empty, while one hundred of Madoi county’s 4077 lakes had dried up.
