Insider Tip: The Great Wall was designed for protection, but don’t forget the forts that were another part of China’s defenses. The 16th-century Yaoziyu Fort, for example, is the best preserved of ...

“We have never invaded any country. We have never started any proxy war. We have never engaged in global military operations or threatened other countries with force.” Responding to NATO Secretary ...

“Who controls the past controls the future,” George Orwell wrote. Rewriting history, as for any authoritarian regime, is the bread and butter of the Chinese Communist Party — and absolutely essential ...

At the U.S.-China summit in September 2026, both leaders spoke of the fact that the United States and China had been allies in World War II and had fought together. Of course, the United States and ...

In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China’s sun-scorched plains: “Heaven has gone blind!” Thousands of starving farmers, their faces smeared with ox blood, marched toward ...