Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. Chinese Premier Li Qiang announced over the weekend that construction had begun on a megadam on Tibet’s Yarlung Tsangpo river. Just last year, Chinese ...

Beijing has vowed to defend its maritime rights after a US report that Vietnam has sped up its island-building efforts in the contested Spratly Islands this year. In a report on Friday, the Asia ...

Shangwei Liu is a research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Gang He is an assistant ...