Sensitive research into alleged human rights abuses is alleged to have been shut down by Chinese agents.

As Trump has imposed steep tariffs on China, American importers are buying much less. But China has offset the decline from the United States with breathtaking speed.

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Instead of worrying about political interference from abroad, UK higher education administrators should deal with institutional decay at home.

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Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India, will visit China for the first time in seven years. Modi will travel to Tianjin for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in late August. The announc...

China’s government spending has pivoted toward social welfare to a degree unseen for at least a generation, as it runs a record budget deficit with a focus on boosting consumption to cushion the blow ...

Policymakers aren’t just focusing on the demand-supply imbalance anymore, but trying to tackle deeper problems, including local government subsidies and unfair corporate practices

The program lost nearly 16 million members last year as local-level deficits emerge, highlighting financial and demographic pressures on the nation’s vast social safety net

Patients who buy their own coverage often find themselves unable to access innovative drugs and treatments because the state system isn’t geared up to deal with them

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As the government struggles to ease a real estate crisis, state-owned developers have been buying up land

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Lobbying, and its role in the policy process, has been extensively studied in democratic states, but much less is known about similar practices in authoritarian political systems. Although a few stud...

US officials say probe is part of wider operation to uncover graft in People’s Liberation Army

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