Third Plenum adopts broad reform decision

The 18th Party Congress installed Xi as the Party’s general secretary and chairman of the Central Military Commission. This succession began a more centralized leadership period that reshaped domestic...

Chinese customs figures for 2012 showed that the value of its goods trade had surpassed that of the United States. The milestone reflected decades of export-led industrialization and global...

In a speech in Kazakhstan, Xi proposed a Silk Road Economic Belt, later joined by a maritime component as the Belt and Road Initiative. The initiative connected infrastructure finance, trade...

The zone opened to test reforms in trade, finance, investment, and administrative regulation. It signaled a new phase of economic opening aimed at moving from export manufacturing toward services...

Xi proposed a 21st Century Maritime Silk Road during a visit to Indonesia. Paired with the overland belt, the proposal widened China’s regional infrastructure and connectivity agenda toward...

Students and civic groups occupied the Legislative Yuan in protest against opaque handling of a proposed cross-strait trade-in-services agreement. The movement demanded public scrutiny of economic...

Tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents took to the streets demanding democratic reform after Beijing’s framework for the 2017 chief executive election. The movement foregrounded local political...

Twenty-one prospective founding members signed the AIIB Articles of Agreement in Beijing. The bank represented China’s effort to shape multilateral development finance and address infrastructure gaps,...

The 22nd APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting began in Beijing, bringing Asia-Pacific leaders together under China’s chairmanship. The meeting advanced regional connectivity and trade initiatives and...

Presidents Xi Jinping and Barack Obama announced parallel emissions and clean-energy commitments. The agreement helped build momentum for the Paris climate accord and showed China’s growing role in...