Anna Ashton answers our questions on U.S. trade policy under Biden, including how it differs from the Trump administration's.

Yuan Shikai was one of the most significant men in the last decades of the Qing dynasty and the early years of the Republic. He served as China’s first president, but his career ended ignominiously.

For China expats of a certain era, Mark Kitto’s story — if not the man himself — is well known. But his story since leaving China has been just as interesting, involving a new career as an actor and ...

China is so big that how it manages its economy and currency matters enormously to the world. Yet over time the way it manages its currency and its foreign exchange reserves has become much less ...

China's chip industry is now entering some of the toughest operating conditions it has ever had to face. Here's a list of ten key Chinese chip firms as well as some notable frauds and failures.

Yuanmingyuan had already been looted by foreign armies earlier in the month. But European powers wanted to further punish the Qing emperor, and so decided, in mid-October 1860, to set fire to the ...

Wang Huning is the most important political theorist in Xi Jinping's China. But what kind of ideology does this man, who ascended to the Politburo Standing Committee after decades of advising ...

How did the queue — a hairstyle characterized by a bare forehead and a single long braid of hair — come to define the Qing dynasty, and subject those who wore that hairstyle to mockery from outsiders?

Benedict Arnold. Quisling. Brutus. All traitors of legendary status, whose names are now figures of speech. But the ultimate traitor? That might be China's Wu Sangui, who betrayed not one, but two ...

Democrats and Republicans both talk about improving America’s ability to make key drugs at home, but the U.S. still relies on China for many medications.