China's new ethnic unity law, which Beijing says applies overseas, has renewed criticism over minority rights.

Chinese AI models are rapidly closing the gap with U.S. frontier systems. This analysis examines what their growing ...

For years, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has pushed ethnic minority groups like Tibetans and Uyghurs to adopt an identity rooted ...

Recently, when Wang Lining, a linguistics professor at Beijing Language and Culture University, opened the popular artificial intelligence model Doubao, she was met with a surprise that felt more ...

Foreign residents and artists describe how language, friendship, music and everyday life helped them build deeper personal ...

Had you queried DeepSeek, a Chinese AI, however, you would have got quite different advice. “Seek compromise,” it suggests, ...

A Chinese teacher at the Confucius Institute at Kenyatta University shows traditional Chinese ink painting to a student. [Photo by Qiu Letao for chinadaily.com.cn] A three-week training program for ...

The late, great sinologist Simon Leys once pointed out a peculiar paradox. China is the world’s oldest surviving civilization, and yet very little material of its past remains—far less than in Europe ...

With 121 journalists detained, China is the world’s biggest jailer of journalists, ranking at the bottom of the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) World Press Freedom Index. Independent media cannot work ...

A study from Tsinghua University has opened a new front in the global technology race by asking a question that may have profound implications for industrial powers. When commanding an artificial ...

Parents say the insistence on Mandarin in schools is eroding the Tibetan language and culture right from early childhood Weeks after a Tibetan-speaking five-year-old started preschool, she had ...