“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.

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 ...

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 ...

China is undergoing a great experiment — tightly controlled and driven by big data — that it hopes will offer an alternative way of protecting the planet. For all our sakes, let’s hope it works.

We talked to renowned scholar Geremie R. Barmé about Shanghai under lockdown, Xi Jinping’s “empire of tedium,” nationalist thugs, and much more.

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.