In the first part of this series, we examined how to think about generative AI and China, including regulatory issues. In this installment, we will examine how leading generative AI companies in China ...

“If you don’t teach them some necessary lessons, it just won’t do.” This was how Deng Xiaoping, speaking to reporters in Washington, D.C., late in January 1979, described PRC policy toward Vietnam.

More than anyone except Mao himself, Jiang Qing represented the violence and extremism of the Cultural Revolution. In the early morning hours of May 14, 1991, 10 years into a lifetime prison sentence ...

Mao Zedong's dip in the Yangtze River near Wuhan in July 1966 set the stage for the launch of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.

“The foreigners have been aggressive toward us, infringed upon our territorial integrity..... The common people suffer greatly at their hands, and each one of them is vengeful.” In this declaration, ...

Last month’s BRICS summit in South Africa ended with Indonesia not joining the group. Some wondered why the country did not become a new member. After all, Indonesia is a Global South nation with one ...

China’s semiconductor wafer fabrication companies are way behind their Western and Japanese peers. But new multilateral export controls targeting China may actually push Chinese firms to innovate ...

The Chinese army crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests killed at least 10,000 people, according to a newly declassified British cable. If only it were true. By focusing on the ...

In China, censorship of LGBTQ content in imported movies has been going on for years. But within the country, queer-themed films continue to be produced.

Raw materials are crucial to the electric vehicle (EV) industry, and China is already way ahead of other countries in securing access to the metals needed for batteries and other components. Latin ...