When President Barack Obama visited Beijing five years ago, China had a weak leader, but a thriving economy. By contrast, President Obama, then viewed as a tran

One of the hallmarks of the Cold War, especially its later stages, was bitter competition between the superpowers over areas of dubious strategic significance.

Asia is holding its breath now, as the icy China-Japan relationship could possibly see signs of thawing in the upcoming informal leaders' meeting of the APE

Beijing started a six-day public holiday from Friday for the APEC summit. Prior to this, the city had already implemented an odd-even license plate system to ea

Secretary of State John Kerry and the Chinese Ambassador to the United States, Cui Tiankai, are offering generally positive assessments of the U.S.-China relati

China’s days of picking a number for GDP growth and moulding the economy to fit are probably over. At the same time, its planners still seem wedded to symbolic

“Eye-popping.” That’s how David Dollar of the Brookings Institution described a recent Conference Board report predicting the Chinese economy would grow at o

In 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled plans for two massive trade and infrastructure networks connecting East Asia with Europe: the New Silk Road (also

Trafficking of women has been an issue in China for many centuries, thanks to a long history of gender ratio imbalance and male preference.  Traditional patria

Sometime in 2011, Gen. Jin Yinan gave what he thought was a closed-door briefing at a corporate conference in China, where he spoke about the dangers of espio