China’s expansionist ambitions and the national obsession with eradicating cultural differences long predate the CCP.

By Laurie Chen and Krishna N. Das BEIJING/DHARAMSHALA, India (Reuters) -Weeks before the Dalai Lama ruled out China's role in choosing his successor, President Xi Jinping met a Tibetan Buddhist monk ...

For millions of Tibetan Buddhists, the Dalai Lama is a symbol of resistance. For Chinese dictator Xi Jinping, he is simply another annoyance, like with the rebels in Taiwan and the democracy ...

China claims authority to approve the selection of clerics in other religions as well. And it points to areas of historical continuity. For example, some Manchu emperors of China's final dynasty, the ...

If we were to unbox the “officially recognized” religions in China, we would pull out five – Buddhism, Catholicism, Islam, Protestantism, and Daoism – and even those are strictly regulated.

Since coming to power in 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping has mandated the “sinicization” of all religions in China, a move the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom called “a ...

NPR foreign correspondent Emily Feng is out with a new book that recounts her experiences reporting on China during the era of Xi Jinping. In "Let Only Red Flowers Bloom," Feng explores what it ...