The soft-power image makers in Beijing ride plushy dolls and YouTube influencers to win hearts abroad ...

To celebrate the incredible drinking cultures of Asia, we dove deep into eight different countries to get to know a little more about what’s in their glasses and how it got there in the first place.

To give a little background: The skirt in question made its debut on the runways of Seoul in April this year. In the post-show notes, artistic director of Dior, Maria Grazia Chiuri, said the ...

You would not think that something as innocuous as yogurt would rile authorities in China. But last August, a yogurt festival in Tibet was met with a police crackdown. “Shoton” is the Tibetan Yogurt ...

“3 Body Problem,” a Netflix adaptation of the popular Chinese sci-fi novel by the same name, is causing controversy in China for its depiction of the Cultural Revolution. Yangyang Cheng, fellow and ...

On Saturday, the Global Times Annual Conference 2026, themed "Trust in China: New Journey, New Opportunities," was held in Beijing. During a discussion themed "an empowering country: what global ...

As the United States steps back from promoting democracy in North Korea through information campaigns, China is seizing this strategic opportunity to fill the void. Through a sophisticated approach ...

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