China Summit took place in Beijing on July 24, 2025, marking the 50th anniversary of EU-China diplomatic relations. European ...

The lessons I draw from these efforts is that despite the Chinese government’s economic clout and its willingness to ...

Computer scientist Laura Edelson and China researcher Jessica Batke discuss some of what they learned over the course of their 18-month investigation into China's online censorship system. They break ...

Following a screening of How to Have an American Baby at Asia Society on June 25, filmmaker Leslie Tai joined ChinaFile Editor-in-Chief Susan Jakes to talk about the film and her process of making of ...

A conservative party pledging to return the country to a glorious imagined past. Massive budget cuts across government ministries. Concerns about foreign influence. An unprecedented challenge of ...

An unexpected development has taken place in the seven-decades-long dispute between the Tibetan exile leadership and China’s government. In early July, for the first time since 2010, Chinese ...

This October 16 marks the 60th anniversary of the testing of the first Chinese nuclear bomb. When my friends and I coiled up our jump ropes and returned to class, we learned inspirational tales about ...

The ChinaFile Conversation is a regular, real-time discussion of China news, from a group of the world’s leading China experts. Kaiser Kuo is the host of the Sinica Podcast, a weekly discussion of ...

In most parts of the world, the United Front Work Department is known—if at all—as a secretive Chinese Communist Party organ conducting influence operations abroad. But in Gonghe Village, the local ...

In a county where authorities ran multiple internment camps in China’s northwest Xinjiang region, the local government has commissioned a new set of buildings for a very different demographic: ...

One year after the EU-China Summit of April 2022—famously described as a “dialogue of the deaf” by EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell—relations between Europe and China remain tense and further ...

On the evening of August 2, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, landed in Taipei to begin an official visit. The trip, the first by a U.S. official of comparable rank in 25 ...