Threats, advantages seen in China’s shrinking population

For seven decades, China’s Communist Party has ruled the world’s most populous country. As the nation’s population crests and begins to shrink, experts say, it will face

China economy recovering but hampered by virus outbreaks

Wang Jian is anxious to get back to work teaching basketball to children now that China has lifted anti-COVID-19 restrictions. But his gym in the eastern

As Qatar World Cup unfolds, planet keeps spinning

Soccer — or football, to most of the global billions watching the World Cup this month — is not human society itself, with all its thorny

Have China and India shifted stance on Russia-Ukraine war?

China and India, after months of refusing to condemn Russia’s war in Ukraine, did not stand in the way of the release this week of

Ukraine war: boost or setback for climate efforts?

Luetzerath may be 1,000 miles from Ukraine, but it is an indirect victim of Russia’s invasion and some fear so is Earth’s climate. The ancient

‘Our phoenix’: Lula’s ups and downs in Brazil defy belief

Four years ago, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's reputation and political future were in tatters. After an unlikely rise from poverty to union leader to Brazil's presidency, the man universally

Global shares mixed after China economy slows, HK down 6.4%

Global shares were mixed, while Hong Kong’s benchmark plunged 6.4% yesterday as dismay over a lack of fresh policy initiatives from a Chinese Communist Party

China’s ruling party congress offers look at future leaders

While Xi Jinping is primed to receive a third term as head of China’s ruling Communist Party on Sunday, it is unknown who will join him for the

Intra-Party polls reflect democracy

The Communist Party of China attaches great importance to intra-Party elections, which are based on five factors. First, intra-Party elections follow the principle of democratic

Chinese path gives world ‘new choice’

At a crucial moment in which China is embarking on a new journey to build a modern socialist country in all respects, the Communist Party of China

Xi gets chance to tighten hold on economy at meeting

President Xi Jinping, China’s most influential figure in decades, gets a chance to install more allies who share his vision of an even more dominant role in

No matter who climbs Beijing’s ranks, Xi rules: observer

For decades, Ho Pin made accurate predictions about China’s next leadership lineup — no small feat, given the black-box nature of Beijing politics. But

Xi heads abroad to promote strategic role

Chinese President Xi Jinping is using his first trip abroad since the start of the pandemic to promote his country’s strategic ambitions at a summit with

One-China principle clearly violated by trip

It's natural for China to feel angry and oppose the recent visit to Taiwan by United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, because the trip openly

One year after Afghanistan, US spy agencies pivot toward China

In a recent closed-door meeting with leaders of the agency’s counterterrorism center, the CIA’s No. 2 official made clear that fighting al-Qaida and other extremist

‘Las Vegas of Asia’ tells casinos to grow beyond gambling

Losing money due to COVID, the American casino giants that helped make Macau the “Las Vegas of Asia” face a fresh challenge: The tiny Chinese territory

Marcos Jr. presidency complicates US efforts to counter China

Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s landslide victory in the Philippine presidential election is raising immediate concerns about a further erosion of democracy in Asia and could complicate American efforts

Islamic State morphs and grows in Pakistan, Afghanistan

Basheer was a young Taliban fighter barely out of his teens when the Islamic State group took over his village in eastern Afghanistan, nearly eight years ago.

Analysis | Myanmar’s searing smartphone images flood a watching world

The images ricochet across the planet, as so many do in this dizzying era of film it, upload it, tell it to the world: scenes from a protest-turned-government crackdown, captured

ANALYSIS | US back at the helm of the global economy as employment rises

  The U.S. is back in the driver’s seat of the global economy after 15 years of watching China and emerging markets take the lead. The world’s biggest economy will expand by

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