Citizens of modern democracies often take for granted the muckraking journalism that goes along with a free press. Yet for most Chinese such reporting is new an

On Thursday, the National People’s Congress convened in Beijing in what has become a familiar annual ritual. Some 3,000 “elected” delegates from all over the

China’s second interest-rate cut in three months has raised fears that the government is trying to devalue the yuan to give its exports an unfair boost — an u

Kaisa’s haircut for offshore bondholders is a bad omen for China’s property sector. The troubled developer’s ballooning debt and evaporating cash leaves cred

For the first time in four years, Chinese and Japanese officials will hold security talks at a high-level, Reuters reported late last week. The last time we

One night in Kunming, China last December I was out to dinner with a former professor, a middle-aged Chinese woman. She had just returned from a trip to Washing

With the formal opening of the National People’s Congress session and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference today, all eyes are on the Chines

China’s new target for GDP growth is a missed opportunity. Premier Li Keqiang says economic output will expand by “about 7 percent” this year. Though the lac

China’s New Silk Road is of interest to the West largely because of the great power rivalry that appears to be once again emerging in the Central Asian region.

China’s decision to lower its annual GDP growth target to “around 7 percent” — the lowest level in 15 years — is understandably dominating headlines this m