China is expanding and diversifying its anti-ship missile arsenal, strengthening its ability to keep

Chinese AI companies have made recent leaps in closing the performance gap with U.S. frontier labs.

China’s space program is having a landmark year, and clues to which nation is pulling ahead in the new moon race may be emerging.

Bayan Obo has supplied much of the world’s rare earth production for decades, but China’s leadership extends well beyond its mineral deposits. China Northern Rare Earth, one of the country’s largest processors linked to the Bayan Obo ecosystem, produced about 95,000 tonnes of rare earth oxides in 2025.

In March 2023, China opened its first-ever cybersecurity review into a foreign company’s products. The target was Micron, the Idaho-based memory chipmaker, CNBC reported, and the case ended seven weeks later with a ban on the sale of its products to Chinese state infrastructure operators.

China’s factories are finding eager buyers abroad even as weak consumer spending and a prolonged property slump weigh on growth at home.

China's crude oil imports recorded a smaller decline in July, though the recovery may be short-lived, as the conflict drags on and demand remains soft.

Beijing’s recent moves to resist extraterritoriality flow directly from a strategic, state-led project to improve China’s legal power. The United States led the construction of the postwar legal order,