BEIJING—Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit China from Oct. 25 to 27 in the first official visit by a Japanese leader in seven years, China said on Oct. 12. Visits by Abe in recent years to attend multilateral events in China have not been considered official visits. Abe’s October meeting with Xi, officially confirmed on […]

A Vox report on a prison letter found in a Walmart product has shed light on the problems with manufacturing supply chains in China.

The intellectual property (IP) provisions in the new United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) push Canada to adopt stronger standards for protection.

Lao Tzu, the founder of Taoism, reminded us in the sixth century BC, “Let reality be reality.” That seems to be precisely what U.S. Vice President Mike Pence did on Oct. 4, when he delivered a comprehensive policy speech on China at the Hudson Institute. This speech was historic because no top official from previous […]

With Election Day less than a month away, voters are being bombarded with mailers and television ads by candidates hoping to collect their vote. But in the 2016 presidential election, the internet and social media emerged as a new battleground to influence voters. In that forum, it isn’t just politicians or even ardent local supporters […]

While China is one of the most important markets for U.S. tech giant Apple, the country has long been home to criminal rings that make and sell fake iPhones. According to an Oct. 9 report by San Francisco-based digital media The Information, organized teams in China have been running sophisticated schemes in which they buy […]

Though the ambitious promotion schemes had only marginal effects in boosting sales, they left many earlier customers feeling cheated of their new homes’ value.

WASHINGTON—China is waging an unprecedented campaign to influence American public opinion as November congressional elections approach and presents the greatest long-term counterintelligence threat to the United States, U.S. security officials said on Oct. 10. Senators on the Homeland Security Committee questioned Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and FBI Director Christopher Wray about President Donald Trump’s […]

LONDON—British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Oct. 9 that in the absence of any explanation by Hong Kong for its refusal to grant a visa to a senior UK journalist he could only conclude it was politically motivated. Chinese-ruled Hong Kong last week rejected an application to renew the work visa of Victor Mallet, […]

China has come up with different ways to rake in taxes from its citizens in the wake of growing debt problems.

Beijing is rolling back its “Thousand Talents Plan” — an ambitious initiative to attract foreign experts to China.

The U.S.-China trade war has compounded a food shortage already in the making inside China, due to water pollution, industrial development, and more.

China is set to increase still further its growing influence within the United Nations by fielding a candidate to head the Food and Agriculture Organization.

China is building hundreds of new coal-fired power plants capable of generating a total of 259 gigawatts (GW) of electricity—that’s equal to the entire existing U.S. coal fleet of around 266 GW, findings by advocacy and research group CoalSwarm show. Most of the new developments owe to a rapid rise in coal plant permit approvals […]

A group of business owners in Malawi's financial hub may be feeling the side effects of the southeast African nation's government getting closer to China.

The Melbourne Vietnamese community held a rally in Federation Square on Sept. 30 to protest against the invasion of Vietnam by the Chinese Communist Party through its “One Belt, One Road” project. The organizers of the rally had a warning for anyone listening: if Australia does not guard against the influence of the Chinese Communist […]

MACAU—Nearly 20 years have passed since Portugal handed Macau over to China, and although colonial culture still infuses parts of daily life, the influence of the territory’s Portuguese elite is declining rapidly as the special administrative region becomes increasingly closer to mainland China. Authorities say they want the world’s largest gambling hub to diversify into […]

PARIS—The president of Interpol, a former senior Chinese security official, has been reported missing after he traveled to his native country at the end of September, a French judicial official said on Oct. 5. Meng Hongwei’s wife reported on Sept. 28 that she had not heard from her 64-year-old husband since he left Lyon, France, […]

WASHINGTON—China represents a “significant and growing risk” to the supply of materials vital to the U.S. military, according to a new Pentagon-led report that seeks to mend weaknesses in core U.S. industries vital to national security. The nearly 150-page report, seen by Reuters on Oct. 4 ahead of its formal release on Oct. 5, concluded […]

WASHINGTON—Author Sulmaan Khan unveiled his new book “Haunted by Chaos: China’s Grand Strategy from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping” at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 24. He said that the changing of leaders in communist China hasn’t brought about fundamental changes because of a sense of insecurity, which […]