Chinese journalist Gao Yu has been a thorn in the side of China’s authorities for decades. Jailed three times for her work — I covered one of those jailings, in the 1990s, as a foreign…

For the past decade, Americans have worried increasingly about China, not least because Chinese President Xi Jinping has centralized power, silenced critics, stalled private-sector reforms and taken an increasingly combative posture toward the rest of…

A couple of weeks ago, a young crowd in Shanghai came out in force to celebrate Halloween. The street where I live filled with revelers dressed in a range of elaborate costumes — as the…

BANGKOK (AP) — With its ground troops forced to pull back in Ukraine and regroup, and its Black Sea flagship sunk, Russia’s military failings are mounting. No country is paying closer attention than China to…

The 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China, which was marked on Tuesday by a mass military parade in the heart of Beijing, was less a historical commemoration than a political event. The Communist…

It’s only recent history that the mind’s eye can still picture a then-spry Lech Walesa scaling fences and leaping atop platforms to lead the rallying cry of “Solidarnosc!” (Solidarity) in Poland’s fight against Russian tyranny.…