China’s leader is restoring aspects of Mao Zedong’s rule, forcing people to confront a more uncertain future rooted in China’s past.

After angry residents took to the streets in Xinjiang, demonstrations have erupted in Beijing, Shanghai and other cities.

A careful examination of the events suggests that China was, in fact, played.

Premier Li Keqiang is helping to press the president to dial back policies that have contributed to the economy’s slowdown. He also wants to influence the selection of his own successor.

After tens of billions of dollars in loans have gone sour and many infrastructure development projects have stalled, Beijing is revamping its troubled initiative.

Gone from the new leadership are the pro-market pragmatists who for decades helped pilot the country’s integration into the global economy. 

Restrictions on the crucial Wind database, used by analysts and investors inside and outside the country, and other information channels are adding to a campaign to curb foreign influence.

In addition to pressure from the West on Beijing over Xi’s Russian entente, he is struggling with a severe slowdown in the economy. The new disquiet raises questions about his unassailed dominance.

Going well beyond curbing tech giants, he wants the Communist party to steer flows of money and set tighter limits on profit making, his speeches show and officials say. More turbulence for foreign...

After strongly supporting Moscow’s standoff with the West over Ukraine, Beijing aligns its position closer to Washington’s.

A campaign to restrict overseas access to China-based data sources was partly triggered by U.S. think tank reports on sensitive Chinese practices that alarmed Beijing.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is calling on his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to negotiate with Kyiv, as Beijing modulates its embrace of Moscow amid the invasion of Ukraine.

Ms. Tai is an experienced congressional staffer and trade lawyer with expertise on China and proven diplomatic skills.

Most of the six slain women of Asian descent were striving to make ends meet. Family members described some as leading isolated lives of hard work.

Senior government leaders were furious about the wealthy entrepreneur’s criticisms of regulators in an Oct. 24 speech. The rebuke was the culmination of years of tense relations between China’s most...

Beijing’s surprise decision to dispatch its ceremonial vice president to the U.N. sends mixed signals over efforts to stabilize U.S.-China ties.

Well-connected Chinese power players were behind layers of opaque investment vehicles that would have profited from the world’s largest stock listing. The information added to concerns about financ...

Concern that a Russian setback in Ukraine would cripple China’s partner against the West helps drive Beijing’s push for an end to the war.

Bit by bit, the Chinese leader has torn down the governance model Deng Xiaoping built four decades ago.

The economic model that took the country from poverty to great-power status seems broken, and everywhere are signs of distress.

China's financial regulators have invited some of the world's biggest investors to a rare symposium next week, three sources said, seeking to encourage foreigners to keep investing in the world's...

China’s leader faces a difficult choice between loosening his zero-Covid policy or doubling down on restrictions that have stifled the country’s economy.

A wave of protests coupled with urgent pleas from many corners of the government finally prodded the leader to scrap the strict lockdown system he had touted throughout the pandemic. China now faces...

For a Wall Street Journal reporter born in China, the mutual openness that began in the 1990s made it possible to envision a better future.

A new generation of novice dissidents—many artists and writers—arrested after demonstrations against pandemic lockdowns is fueled by anger over a clampdown on freedoms and attacks on women’s rights.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is facing strong resistance over a nationwide property-tax plan meant to help curb housing speculation, and he is now settling for a more limited rollout, people familiar...

Senior Chinese officials have been told that an investigation found Qin Gang to have engaged in an extramarital affair.

China is preparing to hit pause on its monthslong campaign against tech companies, as officials seek to arrest a deterioration in the economic outlook.

As Beijing and Washington move gingerly toward restoring high-level exchanges, Xi Jinping is stepping up his effort to gird China for conflict.

The Wall Street Journal reporter’s mother said after this week’s hearing, “For us, the hard part is that we could leave, and he couldn’t.”

China’s cybersecurity watchdog wanted the Chinese ride-hailing giant to do a thorough study of its network security, but Didi couldn’t wait raising billions of dollars for prominent investors.

After President Xi Jinping tore up the Communist Party rulebook to promote key loyalists last year, some observers expected his new team to operate more smoothly in tackling China’s biggest challen...

Beijing is stockpiling some essentials and planning on more domestic production as it accelerates efforts to make China less dependent on the world.

Premier Li Keqiang is helping to press the president to dial back policies that have contributed to the economy’s slowdown. He also wants to influence the selection of his own successor.

Over the past 10 years, Xi Jinping has unleashed an array of military, economic and political campaigns to brace the country for what he sees as the increasingly likely prospect of confrontation with...

Reform and opening up is the only path for China, Song Ping says

Foreign direct investment in China fell to $20 billion in the first quarter from $100 billion a year earlier, hurting an already struggling economy.

In search of economic opportunity or political freedom, Chinese contend with smugglers, bandits and the treacherous jungle of the Darién Gap on the trek through Latin America.

Premier Li Keqiang acknowledges business effect of lockdowns and touts vaccinations in meetings with foreign executives, marking a contrast with President Xi Jinping.

LinkedIn’s plans to shut down the version of its professional-networking site used in the country mark the end of the last major American social-media service operating openly there.

Trump administration officials made the request to Liu He, the main architect of China’s economic policy, last week, according to people familiar with the matter.

Beijing is increasingly leaning on an array of levers to extract intellectual property—sometimes coercively—say U.S. companies. China says it’s payment for market access. The phenomenon is central to...

Investigations into due-diligence firms show how state-security clique is gaining more control over economic policy.

Well-connected Chinese power players were behind layers of opaque investment vehicles that would have profited from the world’s largest stock listing. The information added to concerns about financ...

Across China, homebuyers are refusing to pay mortgages as property developers drag on construction projects, escalating the country’s real estate crisis and risks of bad debt for banks.

A U.S.-China trade deal left many U.S. industries disappointed, but financial firms such as BlackRock see a potential windfall.

Xi Jinping looked to ease China’s zero-Covid strategy until the highly contagious variant forced a return to strict lockdowns. He faces a dilemma other world leaders hope their countries never see...

Ideology is driving Beijing’s economic policy to a degree not seen since the opening to the West nearly half a century ago.

Xi Jinping wanted Vladimir Putin to join in a united front against the U.S., and he got it Feb. 4. Now the Ukraine war threatens to undo Beijing’s yearslong effort to become a world leader.

The Chinese leader moves to concentrate Communist Party power over security, finance and technology.

Beijing is increasingly leaning on an array of levers to extract intellectual property—sometimes coercively—say U.S. companies. China says it’s payment for market access. The phenomenon is central to...

Inspections of state banks and others are aimed at ensuring full Communist Party control over what is seen as the lifeblood of the economy, say people familiar with the plan.