As he turns 70, the Chinese leader has cleared the field of all potential rivals, with no heir in sight—a situation that could destabilize China and rock the foundations of the global order.

A campaign of anticorruption purges has helped China’s leader tighten his grip on power—and his tactics have grown more sophisticated and pervasive.

After one man was snatched off the street for tracking protests online, he spent four years in custody and even now remains under close police watch.

Retired soccer star Hao Haidong and his wife, former badminton world champion Ye Zhaoying are speaking out to support a fugitive Chinese businessman’s campaign to topple Beijing’s leadership.

The propaganda campaign to promote Communist Party history is the largest mass-education drive since the Mao era. Efforts to forge what Xi calls a “correct outlook on history” come ahead of the...

More than 50 people have been jailed in the past three years in an escalation of the Communist Party’s assault on use of foreign social media.

Debate rages over allowing independent voices in China after Wuhan writer Wang Fang, known to millions as Fang Fang, documented life and death in a locked-down city ravaged by coronavirus.

Taiwan’s main opposition party is rethinking its longstanding support for closer ties with China, a shift that would set back Beijing’s quest to gain control over the self-ruled island.

One Sunday afternoon, a congregation of Christians in China crammed into a rented office space to debate one of the biggest decisions of their lives: whether they should stay in China or seek exile.

Beijing is seeking to assuage public anger over the death of a doctor reprimanded by police for raising early alarms about the coronavirus by rescinding his penalty and punishing those who rebuked...

Allegations that authorities enforcing coronavirus measures are discriminating against Africans have stirred anger in their home countries, setting off a diplomatic row that threatens to undermine...

Lee Teng-hui, who as Taiwan’s first native-born president steered the island’s transition to democracy, became its first popularly elected leader and championed a sense of Taiwanese identity separate...

China’s aggressive policing of Muslims in its western region of Xinjiang is being replicated in other parts of the country, particularly in areas with other Muslim communities.

Beijing has launched a campaign against Communist Party cadres who waste time on meaningless tasks to make themselves and their bosses look good.

Chen Quanguo, the official behind aggressive surveillance and social control in China’s restive Xinjiang region, is gaining prominence in Beijing, and his methods are spreading to other parts of the...

Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen claimed victory in a presidential vote widely seen as a rebuke to Beijing’s efforts to gain control over the island democracy.

G-20 nations are among the first destinations planned for anticorruption inspectors, whose deployment risks intensifying alarm over the expansion of Beijing’s overseas activities.

An independent Chinese think tank that has served as a rare bastion for liberal economic thought will shut down, citing government pressure as President Xi Jinping’s campaign to silence dissent rolls...

China signaled it will impose new national-security laws on Hong Kong, dealing a blow to the territory’s autonomy as Beijing seeks to stamp out widespread pro-democracy protests that have challenged...

Taiwan’s legislature approved proposals to rebrand the island’s flagship airline, China Airlines, and make its passports more distinct from mainland Chinese ones—a move likely to irk Beijing.

China has escalated efforts to repel foreign criticism of its measures targeting Muslims in the restive Xinjiang region, stepping up diplomatic lobbying and public-relations efforts.

Communist Party investigators have hauled in a string of long-serving and former officials for alleged corruption and other offenses dating back decades, a shift in Xi Jinping’s long-running antico...

To shape public opinion about China’s response to the deadly new coronavirus, Beijing has turned to a trusted strategy: deploying a massive propaganda campaign and suppressing critical news coverage.

The detention of a Chinese executive to stand trial in the U.S. provoked a standoff between global rivals and opened an acrimonious new era. “You are lapdogs of the United States.”

China’s Communist elite is marking the launch of the market reforms that fueled the country’s economic miracle with an unusual amount of discord, much of it directed at President Xi Jinping.

China’s Communist Party said it would convene a top policy-setting meeting in October, following an unusually lengthy delay that had set off speculation about the unity of the party leadership.

Chinese President Xi Jinping visited the quarantined city of Wuhan for the first time since the coronavirus was identified there, reflecting confidence that the epidemic’s spread has been largely...

The coronavirus pandemic is stoking long-simmering tensions between China and the island democracy of Taiwan, underscoring differences between their political systems and deepening resentment toward...

Ahead of Taiwanese presidential election, the island’s resistance to Chinese influence presents another obstacle to Beijing’s unification drive. “Taiwan cannot become like Hong Kong.”

This headline triggers the extremely miserable memory for the Chinese since 1840 when the First Opium War broke out.