This image captured by Maxar on November 7, 2022, shows Jiangnan Shipyard in China's eastern port city of Shanghai, where the Chinese navy's third aircraft carrier, the Fujian, was launched.

By Western standards, China has never been a railroad nation. Its peak total mileage never exceeded 16,700—against the U.S.’s 395,800. Its railroads, built mostly by the British and Japanese ...

China’s revised 2023 map adds another dash to the nine previous dashes delineating its claim to the South China Sea. The new 10-dash line expands its reach into Vietnamese, Malaysian and ...

I agree with much of Mary Anastasia O’Grady’s “How China Took Latin America” (The Americas, Aug. 1), but there is a more hopeful way to look at it. China has made a lot of investments, and ...

China's huge shipbuilding empire is no hidden secret. It is a monstrous industry with over 230 times the capacity of the US per recent estimates from the Office of Naval Intelligence.

The subtitle of At the Edge of Empire is a glimmer of its great heart: A Family’s Reckoning with China.The book — which comes out today in the US — follows the author Edward Wong, an ...

The 324-mile Tumen River flows from northeast China to North Korea and, toward its end, Russia, ceded to the Russian Empire by China's Qing Dynasty in the 1860s.

JUST 12 STATES recognise Taiwan’s government. Others all have relations with the Chinese government in Beijing, and so at least tacitly accept its argument that there is only one China, of which ...

China has claimed Taiwan as part of its own territory but as recently as 1895 under the Treaty of Shimonoseki concluded between the Qing Empire and the Empire of Japan, the island nation was ...

China's largest state-owned shipbuilder, the China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC), built more commercial vessels by tonnage in 2024 than the entire U.S. shipbuilding industry had since WW2 ...