In 1602, the Wanli Emperor of the Ming dynasty had a big task for his scholars: a map that would depict the entire world. The ...

The early 2000s were the high point for this horizon of the future. The great cities of Asia — Shanghai, Shenzhen, Beijing but also Mumbai and Bengaluru — joined the list of “global cities”.

¶The Lanchow-Sinkiang Railroad: Red China has laid down 200 miles of this projected 1,200-mile line, northwest from Lanchow towards Russia. The Russians are building southeast to meet the Chinese.

The 324-mile Tumen River flows from northeast China to North Korea and, toward its end, Russia, ceded to the Russian Empire by China's Qing Dynasty in the 1860s. Chinese vessels must get ...

Some of China's neighbors have criticized the release of a map that appears to revise the nation's territorial borders to stake a claim to the sovereign territory of other countries.

August 4, 2023: EU (European Union) leaders back the Philippines and efforts to halt Chinese aggression in the South China Sea. The EU wants to reduce its trade with China, which is seen as an ...

A visualization of a physical China thus becomes a tool for defining what is Chinese. But looks are deceiving. On the map, Xinjiang and Tibet are part of the People’s Republic of China.

China’s Ministry of Natural Resources released the new “standard” national map on Monday, part of what it has called an ongoing effort to eliminate “problem maps.” ...

China’s new map could worsen clashes in the area, said Donald Rothwell, a professor of law at the Australian National University in Canberra, who focuses on the law of the sea.

The Philippines has become the latest of China’s neighbors to object to its new national map, joining Malaysia and India in releasing strongly worded statements accusing Beijing of claiming ...

The 324-mile Tumen River flows from northeast China to North Korea and, toward its end, Russia, ceded to the Russian Empire by China's Qing Dynasty in the 1860s.