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 ...

The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy from the Mediterranean to China Roger D. Kaplan (Random House, 400 pages, $23.23) In his new book The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy from the ...

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 ...

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's foreign ministry on Friday said "spreading rumours and slander" is a common tactic of "hacker empire" the United States, after a media report that China has reached a deal with Cuba to set ...

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 ...