Five years ago, China’s longtime leader Xi Jinping shocked and delighted the world by declaring in a video presentation to the United Nations that his country would peak its carbon emissions this decade and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. He tried to rekindle that magic late last month in another virtual address to the UN,…
China is adding new diplomatic moves to justify its military threat to coerce Taiwan into submitting to rule from Beijing. In a formal position paper delivered to the United Nations last month, China declared that China’s sovereignty over Taiwan was guaranteed by the 1971 UN resolution that recognized the Peoples Republic of China as the…
From the earliest days of his rule, Chinese President Xi Jinping has made a regular practice of purging senior members of his country’s military hierarchy. He has invoked corruption in opaque legal proceedings and presided over their public disgrace, banishment from the Chinese Communist Party, and imprisonment. In almost every instance, Xi and the propaganda…
China is systematically exploiting US weaknesses and inconsistencies to expand its reach in the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea, but it also faces its own energy, diplomatic and economic vulnerabilities that Washington needs to better exploit, witnesses testified before Congress on Tuesday. The hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia, the…
Chinese Premier Li Qiang, seen here at the U.N. General Assembly in September, will travel to North Korea this week to attend events commemorating the founding anniversary of the North’s ruling party, both countries said Tuesday. File Photo by Peter Foley/UPI | License Photo SEOUL, Oct. 7 (UPI) — Chinese Premier Li Qiang will visit…
TAIPEI (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump should get the Nobel Peace Prize should he be able to convince Chinese President Xi Jinping to abandon the use of force against Taiwan, President Lai Ching-te told a conservative U.S. radio show and podcast in an interview. The United States is Chinese-claimed Taiwan’s most important international backer, despite…
このページを 日本語 で読む Newly elected Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi will face a series of critical diplomatic challenges upon her anticipated assumption of the prime ministership at an extraordinary Diet session in mid-October. The most significant of these will be the visit from United States President Donald Trump, currently slated for October 27–29. Their…
Martin Powers, professor emeritus at the University of Michigan, is a renowned art historian and sinologist specialising in the history of social justice in China. He is the author of four books (including two that won the Levenson Prize for best book in premodern Chinese studies) and numerous articles. His recent work, China and England:…
On the eightieth anniversary of the end of World War II, China watcher Kawashima Shin highlights Beijing’s recent celebrations in the context of Xi Jinping’s rewriting of history to support his domestic and foreign policies. The Meaning of September 3 On September 3, 2025, the eyes of Japan’s China watchers were trained on Beijing’s Tiananmen…
Beijing’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, is scheduled to visit Italy and Switzerland from Tuesday until October 12, China’s foreign ministry said on Sunday. Wang would attend the 12th joint meeting of the China-Italy government committee and the fourth round of the China-Switzerland strategic dialogue held between foreign ministers, the ministry said in a statement. His…