#China

Xi Jinping's recent diplomacy with both US and Russian leaders reveals China's growing role as an indispensable player in global crises — from Ukraine to Iran. What does this mean for the international order?

Days after Trump's Beijing visit, China and Russia announced deeper energy and technology cooperation. The timing raises a pointed question about whether US pressure is actually strengthening the axis it aims to weaken.

Days after a landmark US-China summit, Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing. Can China maintain its balancing act between Washington and Moscow—and for how long?

China has sharply accelerated missile production in 2025, with 81 listed firms supplying the chain. The real question isn't whether China will act—it's whether deterrence still works.

Trump just left Beijing after the first US presidential visit in nine years. Putin arrives Wednesday. Pakistan's PM follows. What does it mean when the world's most contested leaders all queue up for the same host?

Beijing's expanded export controls now include an extraterritorial clause—products made anywhere in the world using Chinese rare earths could be subject to Chinese approval. The rules of global supply chains just changed.

Chinese researchers have developed a dual-atom catalyst that converts nitrate-polluted wastewater into ammonia at nearly triple the efficiency of conventional methods, with major implications for food security and green chemistry.

From Ukraine to Libya to Afghanistan, U.S. foreign policy keeps repeating the same two failures. Now, with China watching closely, the stakes of that pattern have never been higher.

China has handed suspended death sentences to former defense ministers Wei Fenghe and Li Shangfu. The ruling signals Xi Jinping's tightening grip on the PLA ahead of the 2027 Party Congress.

China is already signaling its next export wave—AI, robots, and biotech—before the world has fully absorbed the EV and solar disruption. What's really driving this ascent?

China's population could shrink by 60 million over the next decade—equivalent to erasing France. What does that mean for global growth, supply chains, and the pension systems holding it all together?

As the US tightens pressure on Iran, China is expanding economic footholds across the Middle East—from energy deals to infrastructure and diplomacy. What's really changing?