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Many are fearful that Xi Jinping’s ability to awe his visitors with over-the-top manifestations of pomp and ceremony will turn Donald Trump to Jell-o. But having watched Trump arrive in Japan yesterday on the first leg of his five-country trip, it’s clear he, too, understands a thing or two not just about the power of the U.S. military abroad (which is considerable, we have

In this era of “savage capitalism,” the world has seen unprecedented declines in poverty and increases in global welfare.

On the heels of Donald Trump’s election as the next U.S. president on Tuesday, Hua Jianping, a 40-year-old Beijing native and host of the popular Chinese-language “U.S. Election” podcast, spoke to ChinaFile by telephone from his home in College Station, Texas. Hua started the podcast at the time of the first Republican debate in August 2015, and at its peak in June of this

It’s a widespread misconception that just because China is Africa’s top trading partner, it’s also the continent’s largest foreign investor. In fact, China ranks seventh overall in FDI, far behind the United States, long Africa’s largest source of foreign investment.That may soon change, though, due in part to China’s rapidly evolving economy. With production costs rising

The American Trucking Associations warned that the industry could lose as much as 37 percent of its workforce.

During the 1980s, as an idealistic, ambitious Uighur growing up under repressive Chinese conditions in the city of Kashgar, there was one nation to which I pinned my hopes for freedom and democracy. To me, the United States was a symbol of my aspirations to live with dignity. I was not alone. Educated and ready to make a mark in the world, many of my Uighur friends and I felt

City-dwellers in China and the United States are among the against, but the two groups responded differently to the outcome of the U.S. election, and the contrast was palpable between the thousands of posts on the Chinese Internet and a proclamations from the campaign trail as an opportunity for Beijing to advance its foreign policy interests around the globe.

While other nations have shipped an "unprecedented" number of products to America, the U.S. cannot keep up with demand as its supply chain workers age out.

Xis monumental efforts have tilted the global balance of power, locking China in a contest with the U.S. that some observers believe could last for generations

Xis monumental efforts have tilted the global balance of power, locking China in a contest with the U.S. that some observers believe could last for generations