Thankfully, the case against me was purely political, and I had the support of relentless advocates and negotiators who ...

Part 1. Opium in antiquity. The mysterious origins of the opium poppy ; Papyruses and poppies ; A journey around the Mediterranean. Part 2. Opium and the birth of modern medicine. Classic cures, ...

Opium was already illegal in China, but the laws were rarely enforced ... That’s how a bullying teenager brought an esteemed ...

Japan engaged cautiously in trade, limited to a few Asian countries and the Dutch, while remaining closed to the USA and the ...

Archaeologists unearthed the settlement of the female-dominated Neolithic Dawenkou culture in the Shandong province of ...

Less than two decades after the First Opium War, Britain launched another brutal campaign against Qing China this time with even higher stakes. This video explores the political motives, economic ...

In his speech at the opening of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in October, President Xi Jinping said ancient China was a great nation. But things changed after the ...

In ancient China, emperors considered themselves the sons of the heavens. A disaster was, therefore, seen as a sign the emperor had lost favour with the heavens. The monarchs would go to the Temple of ...

The deal involves loosening exports of rare earths to the United States and the lifting of some restrictions on U.S. goods to China, China’s Ministry of Commerce said.

China signaled it would approve the export of rare earth minerals in a statement Friday hours after White House officials said that the US and China had signed a trade agreement to work out ...

BEIJING—China on Friday pledged to approve export applications for rare earths to the U.S., potentially easing a major irritant in the countries’ trade negotiations that has also become a ...

The European Union wants China to resolve the export issue around rare earth magnets before a meeting of their leaders next month, according to the bloc’s top envoy to Beijing.