China's massive shipbuilding industry is key to its military's naval modernization. Dual commercial and military shipyards and China's national ambitions are major strengths. But military corruption ...

An ambitious Chinese initiative to build a series of strategic maritime distribution centres, west to Africa and beyond, has been revealed. This is an extension of the Maritime Silk Road, which in ...

Africa's coastline is witnessing a power shift, one unfolding not through gunboats or military bases, but through cables, ...

China’s Silk Road Economic Belt has ushered in a new era of influence for Beijing in Central Asia. In recent years, China has also been solidifying its relationship with Russia. "The story of China's ...

As Afghanistan descends into tribal warfare following America’s hasty departure, China plans to “swoop in” and “fill the vacuum.” “Beijing just can’t wait for the U.S. to get out of the way,” Syed ...

“If railways could be built in Sinkiang, Manchuria, Tibet and Mongolia, and if all these railways could be linked into one system,” said Sun Yat-sen long ago, “then China’s people would have cheap ...

A key regional economic print for August, the Empire State Manufacturing Index, is out this morning. Headline results are far more disappointing than predicted: -31.3 is well off the +5.0 analysts ...

That pagoda -- say a growing number of Chinese researchers and academics -- was a church before being acquired and used by Buddhists, the oldest church now present in the current People's Republic of ...