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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

China is building a very 21st century empire—one where trade and debt lead the way, not armadas and boots on the ground. If President Xi Jinping’s ambitions become a reality, ...