Lord Palmerston promptly dismissed it as ‘a barren island’; the Chinese had never bothered to fortify it, and it was only when picked out in pink that it figured on maps, a minuscule pimple on the ...

Portraying China’s presence in Africa with flags on maps can distort African states’ sovereignty and their power to make ...

purchased 75 percent of ships built at China's dual-use shipyards, giving the country revenue and technological expertise. By contrast, Newsweek's map shows that the U.S. Navy once commanded over ...

The rapid expansion of China’s ocean exploration offers Beijing valuable military intelligence as it expands its naval reach ...

The oldest known part of the Great Wall of China was recently excavated, dating 300 years earlier than the previous record-holding section. This new find is part of the larger oldest part of the Great ...

Archaeologists in China have discovered a unique burial of a woman whose teeth had been painted with cinnabar, with a toxic ...

Years of ship-tracking data, flight paths and satellite images show a clear intensification of Beijing’s tactics across a ...

(Bloomberg) -- China will take steps to revive consumption by boosting people’s incomes, according to the official Xinhua News Agency, as part of a plan that adds to recent pledges by the ...

China, Iran and Russia called for diplomacy over “pressure and threats” and an end to “all illegal unilateral sanctions” following talks on Tehran’s nuclear program Friday in Beijing ...

New research from scientists with the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences and published in the journal Science found that sample analysis backs up an established model of the moon as a global ...

China's military has started live-fire exercises in the Gulf of Tonkin - after Vietnam published a map defining what it considers its territory in the body of water between the two countries.