Insider Tip: The Great Wall was designed for protection, but don’t forget the forts that were another part of China’s defenses. The 16th-century Yaoziyu Fort, for example, is the best preserved of ...

Mao Zedong and Nikita Khrushchev, during the Soviet leader’s 1958 visit to Beijing, China. In China’s case, history is not an academic backdrop but a practical guide to strategic planning, especially ...

History informs foreign policy decisions. Today, historical analogies such as the Thucydides trap, World War I and the Cold War are used to describe and understand US-China strategic competition and ...

The Communist Party has anointed him one of its revered leaders, paving the way for an already powerful leader to wield even greater influence. By Chris Buckley See more of our coverage in your search ...

Numerous Chinese researchers had already studied and conducted research in Germany before the Second World War. The intention now was to build on this connection. The first official visit of a ...

Four major archaeological discoveries have filled critical gaps in the understanding of ancient salt production in China, ...

Historians in China need to play a dual role. Not only do they contribute to the advancement of knowledge, but they also need to actively defend their country’s national interests in the South China ...

The country’s rulers do not just suppress history, they recreate it to serve the present. They know that, in a communist state, change often starts when the past is challenged When I first went to ...

The world's two largest economies, the US and China, are in the midst of a trade spat that threatens to erupt into a full-scale trade war. US President Donald Trump launched the trade dispute by ...