China

The Sino Stranglehold

How badly could the Chinese protests hurt Japan's economy?

BY JUNE TEUFEL DREYER | SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

China's Brainwashed Youth

The protests against Japan didn't get us our islands back, but they made one thing clear: The people are puppets of the Chinese Communist Party.

BY QI GE | SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

The Fifty-Megaton Elephant in the Room

Why aren't America and China talking about their nukes?

BY JEFFREY LEWIS | SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The Problem with Patriotism

The dispute over islands in the East China Sea is stirring up nationalist passions in the region. That doesn't bode well for the future of democracy.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The Case for a Politically Correct Pentagon

Why we need to move from Air-Sea Battle to Air-Sea Operations.

BY MICHAEL O'HANLON | SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

The Dragon Roars

Anti-Japan demonstrations break out in Beijing as anger over a territorial dispute grows.

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Dangerous Waters

Why China's dispute with Japan is more dangerous than you think.

BY STEPHANIE KLEINE-AHLBRANDT | SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Trouble in the South China Sea

With China and Japan at odds over disputed islands to the east, the potential for conflict in the south may seem muted for now. But not for long.

BY BONNIE GLASER | SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

A Glitch in the Matrix

Why the pivot to Asia has no clothes.

BY BARRY C. LYNN | SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Why China Will Never Have a Wall Street

In good times and bad, Chinese stock markets don’t work. And that's just the way Beijing wants it.

BY CARL WALTER, FRASER HOWIE | SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

China's One Percent

Portraits of the lucky ones, living large in the People's Republic.

BY MATHIAS BRASCHLER, MONIKA FISCHER | AUGUST 31, 2012

Sound and Sensible

Mitt Romney’s foreign policy would echo the best of America’s bipartisan traditions. But the desperate Obama caricature of it is just a sad indication of how much the president has failed.

BY PETER D. FEAVER | AUGUST 30, 2012

The China Bubble

U.S. companies are banking their future success on tapping into the enormous Chinese market. They're in for a nasty surprise.

BY RICHARD D'AVENI | AUGUST 30, 2012

A Dangerous Mind

Mitt Romney’s foreign policy isn’t an afterthought, it’s a frightening return to a bullying neoconservative ideology -- and Americans should be worried.

BY BRUCE W. JENTLESON, CHARLES A. KUPCHAN | AUGUST 30, 2012

Everything You Think You Know About China Is Wrong

Are we obsessing about its rise when we should be worried about its fall?

BY MINXIN PEI | AUGUST 29, 2012

Strategic Error

When the big picture misses the point.

BY ROBERT HADDICK | AUGUST 24, 2012

Powder Keg in the Pacific

China is rising -- fast and furious. So why can't the rest of Asia get its act together?

BY ROWAN CALLICK | AUGUST 22, 2012

Gu Kai-lies?

The wacky and not-so-wacky conspiracy theories about China's trial of the century.

BY ISAAC STONE FISH | AUGUST 21, 2012

The Sino-Japanese Naval War of 2012

OK, it's probably not going to happen. But if it did, who would win?

BY JAMES R. HOLMES | AUGUST 20, 2012

China’s Fishy Show Trial

The verdict is in: Bo Xilai's wife is guilty. But the Chinese government's carefully crafted story is full of holes.

BY CHRISTINA LARSON | AUGUST 20, 2012

Tokyo's Hawkish Governor Stirs the Pot

Japan's most volatile politician is making a splash in the South China Sea -- and the Chinese are beating the drums of war.

BY MARK MACKINNON | AUGUST 14, 2012

Why Don't Chinese Leaders Swim Anymore?

What the sporting habits of China's top officials say about the nature of power in the Middle Kingdom.

BY ISAAC STONE FISH | AUGUST 14, 2012

The Souls of Chinese Cities

Letters from Guangzhou, Urumqi, and Shenyang.

BY CHRISTINA LARSON | AUGUST 13, 2012

Life in a Big Box

Photographer Matthew Niederhauser explores the strangely intimate world of China's Ikeas. 

BY MATTHEW NIEDERHAUSER | AUGUST 13, 2012

Meet China's Next Leaders

A who's who of the top contenders for the Middle Kingdom's most powerful jobs.

BY ISAAC STONE FISH | AUGUST 13, 2012

Building a Better China

The world's cities will experience massive growth over the next decade. But are they ready to handle it?

BY RICHARD DOBBS, JAANA REMES | AUGUST 13, 2012

China's Debt Bomb

Half an hour from Beijing, the potential ground zero of the Chinese real estate meltdown.

BY JONATHAN KAIMAN | AUGUST 13, 2012

Unlivable Cities

China's megalopolises may seem impressive on paper, but they are awful places to live.

BY ISAAC STONE FISH | AUGUST 13, 2012

Mr. Happy

Wang Yang is the great hope of China's urban intelligentsia. Is he about to make the big time?

BY GEOFF DYER | SEPT/OCT 2012

'Twitter Is My City': An Exclusive Interview with Ai Weiwei

Beijing's best-known dissident, architect, and creative provocateur tells Jonathan Landreth what's wrong with China's frenetic capital.

INTERVIEW BY JONATHAN LANDRETH | SEPT/OCT 2012