Xi Jinping
May 20, 2013
In mid-April, China’s National Bureau of Statistics announced that the country’s real gross domestic product grew by 7.7 percent year on year during the first quarter of...
May 16, 2013
BEIJING--Global economic malaise has knocked the stuffing out of Luo Yan's business making toy animals.
May 15, 2013
BEIJING--China is trying to strengthen its claim on tiny, uninhabited, Japanese-controlled islands by raising questions about the much larger Okinawa chain that is home to more ...
May 15, 2013
China is in the midst of an urban revolution, with hundreds of millions of migrants moving into cities every year. But China’s urban dream may be derailed by the lack of...
May 13, 2013
SEOUL--Fresh off her visit to the United States, new South Korean President Park Geun-hye is making plans to visit China around the end of June, sources said, in an apparent...
May 13, 2013
BEIJING--A deputy chairman of China's top planning agency, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), is under investigation for suspected "serious discipline...
May 10, 2013
BEIJING--Noted democracy activist Liu Ping has been arrested in the latest sign of China’s intensifying crackdown on those who demand the disclosure of senior party and...
May 10, 2013
SEOUL—Calm responses and increased private-sector exchanges are needed to avoid conflict and repair Japan’s worsening relations with China and South Korea, participants at...
May 08, 2013
BEIJING--President Xi Jinping's crackdown on Chinese government extravagance has emptied top-end restaurants and dented the sale of expensive food and drink, putting downward...
May 07, 2013
The Obama administration's strategic shift to Asia is a smart policy, but its China blind spot could be its undoing, writes defense and security journalist Trefor Moss in The...
May 06, 2013
BEIJING--China is hosting both the Palestinian and Israeli leaders this week in a sign of its desire for a larger role in the Middle East.
May 04, 2013
BEIJING--China has sentenced a former provincial deputy governor to life in prison for accepting almost $2 million in bribes, the most senior official to be punished since the...
May 04, 2013
China now has an evangelist of "dreams"--none other than Xi Jinping, who was formally anointed as president in mid-March.
May 01, 2013
At the National People’s Congress in March, the leaders of the new Chinese administration and its economic structural reform strategies were approved, along with major...
April 29, 2013
Although China is consumed with concerns about domestic stability, its increasing appetite for Persian Gulf oil has sparked unprecedented Chinese interest in the Middle East....
April 28, 2013
In the outskirts of Zhengzhou, Henan Province, stands a stone wall bearing some 3,000 closely carved Chinese characters. It is said these engraved ideograms, each measuring 30...
April 24, 2013
Tensions between Japan and China over disputed islands in the East China Sea could seriously harm U.S. interests, warns Sheila A. Smith, senior fellow for Japan studies at the...
April 23, 2013
Xi Jinping has taken his call for a "great renaissance of the Chinese nation" into the foreign diplomacy arena.
April 22, 2013
BEIJING--With more than 500 million people using Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter, public criticism of the government’s response to the April 20 earthquake in Lushan...
April 18, 2013
Chinese leader Xi Jinping takes over a country that set a lofty goal of doubling gross domestic product by 2020 from 2010 and has angered a number of neighbors over its...