China's appeal as a destination for foreign capital is set to strengthen further as policymakers move to stabilize expectations, while the country's vast market and accelerating industrial upgrading ...

Missiles are a key tool for China to prevent or restrict U.S. naval forces from entering and operating in the Pacific.

China uses a layered approach in the South China Sea that blends military power, paramilitary forces, legal instruments, and political signaling. Beijing has asserted “historic rights” over most of ...

Pacific” sounded like a distant diplomatic riddle -- a slogan crafted in polished conference rooms, drifting over maps and ...

Even as the US raises trade barriers, China has gone the opposite way by making the entire island of Hainan a free-trade zone. Hainan is 50 times the size of Singapore. The Hainan facility helps ...

Nowhere is this more evident than in the treatment of the Eastern Mediterranean, a region whose dynamics are increasingly misread when folded uncritically into the broader MENA frame. The distinction ...

Liu Yuanchun: The Hainan free trade port marks a major strategic move for China's deeper integration into the world ...

Jersey City leaders push back against the Turnpike Extension widening, arguing it will worsen traffic and pollution, while ...

China has flipped the switch on its biggest free‑trade experiment yet, carving the island of Hainan into a $113 billion customs zone aimed at luring foreign investment and rivaling Hong Kong—just as ...

By Alexandre de Santi The Amazon enters 2026 carrying the bitter taste of compromise. The world’s attention was fixed on Belém for the COP30 summit in November, transforming the Brazilian city into a ...

The US-led battle against cargo ships off the coast of Venezuela, and Ukraine’s attacks on Russian vessels have brought to light an illegal industry of ‘shadow’ ships ...

An aerial view of the busy and orderly scene at Yangpu Port in Danzhou, South China's Hainan Province, on December 20, 2025 ...