In this episode of Roughly Chinese, we ask what foreign leftists see in China, what they still misunderstand, and whether admiring China is enough—or merely the beginning.

Japan honored Hiroshima's dead, then quietly left the question of nuclear weapons more open than before.

A new dataset shows a formal regime that remains China-focused, while treating arms sales, visits, advocacy as forms of actionable interference.

Six Chinese books, films and television series about fallen empires, dangerous heroes and the stubborn question of whether civilization can survive the people who save it.

While China’s street security keeps improving, a new year-long anti-crime campaign rolls out. Why? Traditional gangs have turned to hidden cross-border cyber fraud. Can cross-departmental full-chain crackdowns curb such fast-evolving digital crimes effectively?

Feng shui in China, evangelical politics in America, and two very different ways of governing official politics and personal belief systems.

The real divide is not “democracy versus dictatorship.” It is whether a server farm arrives as a private extraction project—or as one piece of a public development bargain.

The mine is only the beginning. The real power lies in turning mixed ore into materials that make modern machines move.

The FCC can block the next wave of foreign mobile robots. It cannot manufacture the motors, magnets, factories, customers and technicians for a domestic industry needs.

This is the story of how America lost one of its most valuable scientists, a decision former Navy Secretary Dan Kimball called “the stupidest thing this country ever did.”