Brian Spegele

Brian Spegele More than a decade into Xi Jinping's rule, China's military has grown more formidable, its factories dominate global manufacturing

China's government is pouring money into AI, electric cars and military power, while consumer confidence sags and job market grows bleak.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping offered President Trump a warm welcome, urging that the world’s two biggest economies adopt a far more cooperative posture after years of deepening tensions over trade, Taiwan and technology competition. “China and the United States both stand to gain from cooperation and

Chinese leader Xi Jinping reached for one of his favorite academic concepts when he met President Trump: the ‘Thucydides Trap.’ “Can China and the United States overcome the Thucydides Trap and create a new paradigm of major country relations?” Xi asked Trump at the Great Hall of the People.Coine

Alexander Ward, Annie Linskey, Brian Spegele BEIJING—Chinese leader Xi Jinping warned President Trump that any mishandling of Taiwan could

With President Trump still in Beijing, the Chinese government delivered an implicit criticism of the U.S. war with Iran. “There is no need for this war, which should never have happened in the first place, to continue,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on the morning of the second day of Tr

China's government said it had reached "a series of new common understandings'" with the U.S. during the summit in Beijing this week. "The two presidents agreed on a new vision of building a constructive China-U.S. relationship of strategic stability" to guide relations "over the next three years a

Alexander Ward, Annie Linskey, Brian Spegele, Lingling Wei BEIJING—At the end of President Trump's state visit to China on Friday, with Air

President Trump said he “didn’t discuss tariffs” during his summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, because the issue “wasn’t brought up.” Still, he framed an issue that has been at the center of U.S. tensions with China recently as an area of growing consensus between he and Xi, though Trump provide

As Xi closed congregations around the country, Ezra Jin found ways to keep Zion Church going—and growing. It set him on a dangerous crash course with Beijing.