Amid the political and economic changes of the early 2000s, it seemed unthinkable that China would revert back to Mao-era repression. But’s that’s exactly what happened. Many observers, especially in ...

In China’s heavily indebted cities, “fiscal winter” is manifesting through a peculiar ritual: businessmen crowding government offices in a year-end rush to claim overdue contract payments. In private ...

China has announced sanctions against Shigeru Iwasaki, a former head of Japan’s Self-Defence Forces, after he accepted a position as a political adviser to Taiwan’s executive branch. The Chinese ...

China has taken its growing dispute with Japan to the United Nations, accusing Tokyo of threatening "an armed intervention" over Taiwan and vowing to defend itself in its strongest language yet in the ...

Barely a day goes by without calls from economists and policymakers around the world for China to increase its consumer spending. Consumer spending as a percentage of GDP is less than 50%, far below ...

China’s birth rate has fallen to its lowest level since the Communist Party took power in 1949, according to recent government data reported by the BBC and other media outlets. Official figures ...