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In the 19th and 20th centuries, geopolitical jockeying in China’s northeast saw the ownership of strategic railway lines – and with them regional dominance – change hands time and again.

The West's underestimating of President Xi Jinping, and China, pose serious quandaries for western leadership, which seem to be expanding.

Two recent books force us to rethink what knowledge is, where it is located, and how it moves.

It is hard to fit Henry Kissinger’s latest book, On China, into any conventional frame or genre. Partly that is because the somewhat self-deprecatory title conceals what is, in fact, an ambitious goal: to make sense of China’s diplomacy and foreign policies across two and a half millennia, and to bring China’s past full circle in order to illuminate the present.

China making subjects, clients, and foreigners kowtow has a 500-year history | 2022-07-07 17:48:00

Chinese netizens’ reactions to tentative democratic reforms in neighboring Myanmar, including to the recent repeal of censorship rules for private publishers by the Southeast Asian nation’s reformist government, reflect just how closely it’s possible for average Chinese to follow—and criticize—international relations even when their own access to information about the outside

Following is an edited transcript of a live event hosted at Asia Society New York on December 17, 2015, “ChinaFile Presents: The New Yorker On China.” (The full video appears above.) The evening, introduced by Asia Society President Josette Sheeran, convened the writers Jiayang Fan, Peter Hessler, Evan Osnos, Zha Jianying, and Orville Schell for a look back at their four

HJ, who is Director of educational charity Engage with China, is hoping the tale can now be used to get some serious messages across.

You are using an older browser version. Please use a supported version for the best MSN experience. The Chinese Communist Party has governed for 72 years. How did China’s longer imperial dynasties fare after the same time? A ceremony celebrating the centenary of the Chinese Communist Party is held at Tiananmen Square on July 1, 2021 in Beijing, China. Photo: VCG via Getty Images The Chinese Communist Party, which recently celebrated its centenary, has governed mainland China for 72 years. W...