Hong Kong and Macau were once European colonies—Hong Kong under Britain and Macau under Portugal. Both were returned to China in the late 20th century under agreements that promised high degrees of ...

People in China are calling attention to the fact that the state of Israel is not present on online maps in China, a concerning development given China's historical obsession with map boundaries.

This is the case with its “Nine-Dash Line,” a maritime claim that the People’s Republic utilizes to justify its imperialism against the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and other countries. The claims ...

A military parade in Beijing marking the end of World War II will draw leaders from around the world. It's an opportunity for ...

On 2 September 1945, Japanese forces officially surrendered to the Republic of China, ending the brutal occupation which began in 1937. Since the end of the subsequent Chinese Civil War, this victory ...

China’s landscape has been profoundly reshaped over centuries by the interplay of human activities, climatic variations and socio-political transformations. Recent studies have elucidated long-term ...

Historian Meredith Oyen explains how disagreements over the history of the second world war and who fought the Japanese are ...

(Reuters) -The Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam have rejected as baseless a map released by China that denotes its claims to sovereignty including in the South China Sea and which Beijing ...