Throughout China's long, male-dominated history, women have been shadowy ... But the newly named Empress Dowager Cixi quickly ousted them on fabricated charges of incompetence.

With her considerable court power ... von Ketteler, were all tactics used by these men. The colonial powers that had been in China since the Opium War of 1840 responded swiftly, prompting the ...

Empress Wu Zetian entered the Chinese court as a fifth-tier concubine, but she ended her life as the country's only female ...

Insects have long held an esteemed status in Asian cultures. Here’s how one particularly boisterous insect species is rumored ...

It is the largest canal user, accounting for approximately 40% of all container traffic ... U.S. influence by using its economic power to counter China by forming strategic partnerships or ...

This marks a structural change in the energy security of all high-elevation ... Improving the power supply to border troops has been a key part of China’s military-civilian fusion strategy.

Or perhaps he really was, as many believe, the Manchurian Candidate all along ... Even closer to US soil, China has declared itself to be a “near-Arctic power,” and has built a fleet of ...

DeepSeek’s success embodies China’s ambitions in artificial intelligence. But it could also threaten the grip on power the nation ... Mr. Liang’s attendance was all the more remarkable ...

“China supports all efforts conducive to peace ... with Beijing and swing the Cold War balance of power in the US’ favor. Though that history is unlikely to be repeated, observers say even ...

What does economic inequality have to do with great-power ... all the investment. Bidenomics also obscured the budgetary trade-offs of an economic policy pursued through rivalry with China.

Indeed, Trump’s coveting of Canada and Greenland also has roots in U.S. history ... of all containers sailing through the canal originate in or are destined for the United States. U.S. security would ...

Most of them were probably smuggled into the country, considering that Chinese startups are banned from acquiring key chips needed to power ... all your data, including your chats, will be sent to ...