Anna Beth Keim is a freelance writer and Chinese translator based in Somerville, Massachusetts. Her work has been published in Foreign Policy, the Foreign Service Journal, New Haven Advocate, and YaleGlobal Online. A graduate of Goshen College, Keim is currently working on a book about Taiwan.
China's legislature adopted a sweeping national security law last week that covers everything from territorial sovereignty to measures to tighten cyber security.
The Philippines plans to ramp up military spending over the next 13 years, earmaking more than $20 billion in face of Beijing's maritime ambitions in the disputed South China Sea.
The Philippines argued at a closed hearing on Tuesday that an international court should intervene in its dispute with China over the right in the South China Sea.
Millions of ordinary investors like Mr. Gong, who piled into an ever-soaring Chinese stock market over the last year, are bracing for a roller-coaster ride.
Another 173 firms listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen announced trading suspensions after the market closed on Tuesday, bringing the total to around 940.
When China’s leader Xi Jinping comes to the United States for his first state visit in September, will U.S. leaders use the summit to address the country’s deteriorating human rights conditions?
Not if the U.S. performance at June’s Strategic and Economic Dialogue with China is any indication.
Sophie Richardson is Senior China Adviser for Climate Rights International and co-Executive Director at the Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders. From 2006 to 2023 she served as the China Director at Human Rights Watch. She has published extensively on human rights and political reform in the country and across Southeast Asia. She has testified to the Canadian Parliament, European Parliament, and the United States Senate and House of Representatives. Richardson is the author of China, Cambodia, and the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence (Columbia University Press, 2009), an in-depth examination of China’s foreign policy since the 1954 Geneva Conference, including rare interviews with Chinese policymakers. She speaks Mandarin, and received her Doctorate from the University of Virginia and her B.A. from Oberlin College.
Images of front pages of Chinese newspapers following the June 23, 2011 collision of two high-speed trains outside the city of Wenzhou.
A June 2, 2015, photo from Shanghai’s The Paper, an online news platform, shows trees blown over (possibly by heavy winds) near the site of the Oriental Star tragedy.
