One of the cardinal rules of Chinese diplomacy is that China doesn’t mix business with politics. The precept fits in nicely with the primacy that China places on sovereignty, respecting the right of a ...

2025 has been both telling and turbulent for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), exposing some structural contradictions even while it tried to project global influence through high-profile ...

BEIJING, Feb 9 (Reuters) - China's policy towards Japan will not be changed by one particular election, a foreign ministry ...

President Trump's focus overseas may spare China for now, but Beijing still worries that his "America First" rhetoric hasn't ...

China’s Foreign Ministry recently released its third policy paper on Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The paper is wide-ranging, encompassing topics from diplomacy to security cooperation and ...

Earlier this year, after U.S. President Donald Trump effectively shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development, the world’s largest bilateral aid program, many observers raised fears that ...

What does China want? There is a massive industry of academic and analyst products proclaiming to offer insights into what China wants, more often than not appearing to assert some longtime, deep and ...