Chinese companies have been violating UN sanctions against trading with North Korea, according to U.S. officials.
Keeping up with the Trump administration’s statements on China and U.S.-China relations can be hard work. ChinaFile has just made it easier. Our new interactive database contains a growing collection of quotations from the President and senior administration officials that you can sort and filter, to identify how the administration’s positions on China have evolved.
In mid-January, the environmental group Greenpeace announced dramatic improvements in air quality across China. In 74 Chinese cities, measurements of PM2.5, the fine particles that have been a major contributor to the country’s choked skies, declined 35 percent from 2013 to 2017. In Beijing, PM2.5 fell 54 percent in the last quarter of 2017. And yet, Greenpeace also noted that coal use accelerated between 2016 and 2017, slowing the progress of the National Air Quality Action Campaign and threatening the campaign’s continued progress. Also clouding the good news, air pollution has worsened in some parts of the country as polluting industries have shifted production. What is the significance of these changes, and can the reductions in air pollution be sustained and improved upon?
Wei Shiji “died instantly” while trying to defuse a landmine in a dense forest in China’s Fujian province this month, while two comrades, Li Shoushun and Liu Shangdong, “survived the war”.
An oil spill from an Iranian oil tanker that sank in the East China Sea is now the size of Paris.
When Robin Li looks back at the question now, he can laugh. But things were different in 1992, when the Baidu CEO was a tongue-tied Chinese student applying for a computer-graphics graduate program in the U.S.
Marriott International is apologizing to the Chinese government—and changing its practices—after coming under fire for listing Hong Kong, Taiwan.
India tested a long-range ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear weapons on Thursday, paving the way for membership to a small list of countries with access to intercontinental missiles and putting most of China in its reach.
China is reporting its fastest economic growth in seven years, saying its gross domestic product grew by 6.9 percent in 2017.
This fall, the Nineteenth Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (C.C.P.) gave proof that during his five years as general secretary Xi Jinping has become the most powerful leader of China since Mao Zedong died in 1976. Most observers, Chinese and foreign, who already knew this could only have been surprised at the manner in which it was displayed in public at the congress: in the choice of the new leadership team and the designation of an official ideology named for Xi.
