Chinese authorities portray the Confucius Institutes as being similar to France’s Alliance Française or Germany’s Goethe-Institut, both of which receive government funding to give language and culture classes. ..…

Trump apparently has only one supporter amongst his trade team, namely Peter Navarro. Everybody told the president not to increase the tariffs on the remaining US$300 billion of Chinese goods. ..…

What may ensue is version of the transformation of Muslim-majority Xinjiang western China, steadily yoked to the rest of the country by the migration of Han Chinese.. The union territory of Ladakh will have no legislature the new territory of Jammu and Kashmir will have legislature..…

And unlike the Soviet Union, China is deeply integrated into the world and intertwined with the U.S. economy. . . Unlike the Soviet communist system, the Chinese system cannot be expected to “crumble under its own weight.” ..…