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This article is part of the series Facing China. Bruno Maçães, a former Europe minister for Portugal, is a senior adviser at Flint Global in London and the author most ...

It was not the China summit of Angela Merkel’s dreams. The German chancellor, who is heading into her final year in office, had envisioned a dramatic gathering of all EU ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is expanding his arsenal of spectacular, but hard to explain, claims about U.S. military might. First, there were invisible airplanes. Then, a “super duper” missile. ...

Senior EU officials warned Beijing on Thursday that surveillance of ethnic minorities in China breaches international principles on the use of artificial intelligence and is a serious concern to the ...

BERLIN — In the fall of 1984, Helmut Kohl traveled to China with German industry in tow on a mission to harness what he predicted would be a “century-long modernization” effort. ...

President Donald Trump acknowledged the “deadly” nature of the coronavirus earlier this year in a series of recorded interviews with the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward, even as the White House ...

Say it ain’t Joe. Joe Biden once joked in 2013 about accepting Chinese help to seek the Oval Office, and the moment was caught on video still viewable on the ...

The latest book by the French economist Thomas Piketty appears unlikely to be sold in mainland China after he refused requests to censor it. Although the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, ...

The United States is weighing formally labeling China’s brutal repression of ethnic Muslim minority Uighurs a “genocide,” two Trump administration officials said. Activists and lawmakers have been pushing for the ...

Donald Trump’s rage over the circumstances in which he now finds himself—trailing in the polls as the November election approaches; on the defensive over his handling of the pandemic— has ...