China

As thousands of Chinese families take DNA tests, the results are upending what adoptees abroad thought they knew about their origins.

Whether a trade pact with China or a peace accord with Russia, the President doesn’t seem to know what he’s actually asking for, never mind how to actually achieve it.

A professor at M.I.T. on how Xi Jinping is likely to respond to U.S. tariffs and why the standoff won’t weaken the Chinese Communist Party’s grip on power.

“His tolerance for chaos is perhaps going to end up running up against China’s tolerance for pain,” the staff writer Evan Osnos says.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s gutting of U.S.A.I.D. will weaken Washington’s reach, but the U.S. was already losing the fight for global influence.

The acclaimed Chinese-cuisine chef and writer reflects on stories of foreign travel in China, and what it feels like to fall in love with a place.

The President accused China of “lovingly, but illegally, operating the Panama Canal.” The truth is more complicated.

The Chinese company’s low-cost, high-performance A.I. model has shocked Silicon Valley, and a longtime China watcher warns that the West is being leapfrogged in many other industries, too.

The staff writer Evan Osnos offers a behind-the-scenes perspective on President Biden’s handling of world crises—from Gaza and Ukraine to China’s designs on Taiwan.

Xiao Gongqin thought that, in moments of flux, a strongman could build a bridge to democracy. Now he’s not so sure.

The author discusses his story “Paris Friend.”

In China, a new generation of milk-tea chains—with design schemes that evoke everything from Communist-era factory floors to spaceships—sell not only beverages but also imagined worlds.

A program that offered new lives to abandoned infants also increasingly depended on abuse, abduction, and trafficking.

The player known as Queenwen won Olympic Gold, and is moving through the early rounds of the U.S. Open.

Gao Ertai hasn’t returned to his homeland in years, but his memoirs have made him a new model of resistance.

A new community of expats is opening bookstores, attending lectures, and imagining alternatives to Xi from the relative safety of Japan.

In the past few years, many Chinese people living abroad have found themselves transformed by the experience of protest.

Is China’s electric-vehicle industry a threat to the U.S., or something to learn from?

The anniversary of the massacre coincides with verdicts in the trial of the pro-democracy activists known as the Hong Kong 47.

During the last few weeks, American political discourse has been consumed by what’s happening inside a New York City courtroom. But the world outside it hasn’t stopped.