In this short Mandarin lesson, I explain the real difference between 认识 rènshi and 知道 zhīdào, even though they both translate ...

China has long identified specific sectors as future engines of growth and recipients of expansive state subsidies. Despite charges of economy-wide imbalance, overcapacity, and, most recently, ...

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BEIJING—The White House’s new national-security strategy signals a softer approach to competition with Beijing, playing down ideological differences between the two superpowers and marking a break ...

A familiar drama has resurfaced in Skopje. While I was still in Beijing attending the CASS academic conference on the Belt and Road Initiative, news broke that the Vice Speaker of the Macedonian ...

Review & Outlook: Likening the global threat level to that of 1939, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth unveils reforms to the Pentagon acquisition process that will ‘rebuild the defense industrial ...

In 2018, Vice President and National Space Council Chair Mike Pence heralded a new era of “American dominance in space,” which would be led by a new U.S. Space Force. The service, eventually ...

With less than eight weeks to go in 2025, Hollywood is counting on a remaining slate of film releases to rescue its annual box office performance. In China, box office grosses exceeded all of 2024’s ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Without a doubt, Philadelphia has its own soundtrack. The sound of a coffee pouring into a Wawa cup. The scraping of a spoon into a cup of water ice. One Northeast Philadelphia ...

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Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was “the animal that has language.” ...