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 ...

Global coal consumption reached an all-time high in 2024, climbing to 8.77 billion metric tons as global electricity demand outpaced the expansion of renewable energy. Despite its contribution to ...

HONG KONG/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China's Premier Li Qiang announced construction had begun on what will be the world's largest hydropower dam, on the eastern rim of the Tibetan Plateau, at an estimated ...

Chinese firms now have a 66% stake in the newly completed port of Kribi, Cameroon, which was built by a state owned contractor. Image courtesy of Kribi Port Authority April 12, 2025 China watchers are ...

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 ...

China’s “walking stick” skyscraper now has some new legs. Construction on the Goldin Finance 117 tower in Tianjin is set to resume after 10 years, CNN Style reported. Progress on the 1,959-foot-tall ...

On the outskirts of Lanzhou, a city in western China, a large banner plastered over an unfinished residential complex celebrated not the Lunar New Year or China’s National Day, but something ...