Ship movements in Arctic waters have increased by 82% over the past three years

Trump gave Xi a lavish welcome, but the summit yielded only a two-month trade truce extension and no progress on Taiwan, AI or other key disputes

Artificial intelligence may become one of the Chinese Communist Party’s most powerful instruments. It may also become an erosive force against the political order that seeks to control it. These possibilities are not mutually exclusive. AI offers Beijing exceptional capabilities for economic modernisation, administration, surveillance and military power. Yet it also accelerates the production and […]

After a Saudi appeal, China is leaning on Iran behind closed doors to curb the Houthis, using its position as Tehran's top oil customer

Chinese citizens embrace AI in daily life, trusting Beijing to manage the risks, unlike the anxious discourse in the United States

September 9, 1976, the day Mao Zedong died—the turning point from revolutionary transformation towards Deng Xiaoping’s very different path of development

Five decades after Mao Zedong’s death, China remains caught between the legacy of his revolutionary era and the economic transformation that turned the country into a global power

Military researchers, patents, and procurement records show Beijing accelerating plans to deploy humanoid robots in combat roles alongside human troops

China postponed the launch of its Chang'e-7 lunar probe, which aims to search the moon's south pole for water ice, citing unmet launch conditions

A newly confirmed carnivorous plant species from Yunnan's mountains finally proves a suspicion Charles Darwin couldn't confirm 150 years ago

Mark Zuckerberg says AI must stay widely accessible, not concentrated among a few firms, as Meta pushes to rival China's open models