WASHINGTON, DC — The unfolding geopolitical contest between China and the United States has been described by many as a new cold war.

STOCKHOLM — Over the last decade, China has taken an increasingly muscular approach to relations with east Asian countries. But in recent months, it has surprised its neighbours with a charm offensive. What changed?

CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA — The escalating trade feud between the United States and China is increasingly viewed as the opening campaign of a new cold war.

HONG KONG — When the Soviet Union imploded in 1991, the Communist Party of China (CPC) became obsessed with understanding why.

CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA — Politics has a nasty habit of surprising us, especially in a country like China, where there is little transparency and a lot of intrigue.

At the end of the six-day 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the roughly 2,200 delegates decided to add “Xi Jinping Thought on the new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics” to the CPC’s constitution.

When US President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) this past January, many observers saw that decision as a boon for China.If so, it may not last.The conventional wisdom is based on simple economic and geopolitical logic.China has b

July 1 marked the 20th anniversary of the United Kingdom’s handover of Hong Kong to China, under a model called “one country, two systems”.But an unavoidable question will hang over the official commemorations: Is there really anything to celebrate?If you had asked Deng Xiaoping,

The abolition of China’s 35-year-old one-child policy closes one of the darkest chapters in the country’s history.In the late 1970s, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), determined to boost economic growth, decided that population control was the answer.Millions of abortions, steri