Policy debates about China often seem like this: an inane repetition of policy one-liners lacking facts or persuasive argument. In this new book, Minxin Pei demolishes the frequently uttered, and ...

“The strange tale of CATL’s attempts to patent nature and its absent data marks a crisis unfolding, not unlike the nuclear meltdown depicted in the 1979 American disaster thriller, ‘China Syndrome.'” ...

The China Syndrome refers to a scenario in which a molten nuclear reactor core could could fission its way through its containment vessel, melt through the basement of the power plant and down into ...

Few epochs in Chinese history have brought changes as dramatic as those in the last half of the 20th century. From the communist victory of 1949 to the upheavals of the Cultural Revolution in the ...

The figurative puff of smoke announcing China’s change of leadership has, at last, risen from the chimney of the Great Hall of the People. But the transition, however smooth, throws up more questions ...

In 1985, Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang spoke in Wenzhou, a large port town south of Shanghai. After Chairman Mao died in 1976, the city quickly started to return to its trading roots. Shops and small ...