A screenshot from a commercial advertising Sembo Block’s models of China’s Long March rockets, satellites, lunar rovers, and taikonauts. With all eyes on the development of China’s space technologies, ...

To celebrate the incredible drinking cultures of Asia, we dove deep into eight different countries to get to know a little more about what’s in their glasses and how it got there in the first place.

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Each country has an icon that represents its national identity to the world. There’s beer in ...

In a speech at an international seminar to mark the 2,565th anniversary of the birth of Confucius in Beijing, the capital of China on September 24, 2014, Chinese President Xi Jinping called on ...

Democrats and Republicans united in April 2024 to pass a bill to ban TikTok in the United States. The bill, signed into law by President Joseph Biden, enacts a further clampdown on the reach of ...

This story is adapted from the latest episode of Rough Translation. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or NPR One. About four years ago in Beijing, a colleague dragged me out from behind my computer, ...

As the United States steps back from promoting democracy in North Korea through information campaigns, China is seizing this strategic opportunity to fill the void. Through a sophisticated approach ...

China announced last month a $100 billion push into artificial intelligence, intensifying what is already a fierce race for global tech dominance. Policymakers in Washington are watching with concern, ...

China ranked second in Brand Finance’s 2025 Global Soft Power Index 2025 — behind the United States and surpassing the United Kingdom, Japan and South Korea. After a pandemic-era dip, market-driven ...