T he help China gives Russia in the war in Ukraine has long caused dismay in Western countries. Exports of ostensibly ...

In March 2025, China’s military researchers published a concept describing how to rapidly capture and subdue the city of ...

The Lede Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today. This is all welcome news in Beijing. For years, the Chinese Communist Party has tried, with middling success, to cast itself as a ...

T hucydides thought rising powers tend to cause conflict. Had he been an economist looking at the explosion of Chinese exports to Europe, he might have expected a trade war. So do many analysts these ...

The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has presented Russia and China with a significant opportunity. Both Moscow and Beijing see the conflict as a chance to undermine U.S. interests in the Middle East and ...

India and China are now locked in competition over crude supplies, mainly from Russia and, to a lesser extent, Saudi Arabia. So far in April, both India and China are going head-to-head, with each ...

When President Donald Trump arrives in Beijing later this March for his summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the official agenda will read like every other U.S.–China meeting in recent memory: ...