Cyber attacks from China have become a key point of contention between the United States and China. Both sides recently agreed to form a working group and hold regular talks on cybersecurity and industrial espionage, and the issue featured prominently …

A Chinese court sentenced the brother-in-law of imprisoned Nobel laureate to 11 years in prison Sunday just hours after President Xi Jinping and US President Barack Obama’s informal summit in California.

On June 8, a court in suburban Beijing sentenced …

Authoritarian regimes around the world are banding together to bypass international institutions and human rights norms that conflict with their abusive practices, writes analyst Andrew Rizzardi. Unlike the alliances of the Cold War era, these partnerships have few ideological underpinnings …

When Xi Jinping meets President Barack Obama meet for their summit in California on Friday, he will likely be accompanied by “a bookish, bespectacled figure” whose innocuous appearance betrays his influence as “a godfather of China’s neoconservatives, who have …

“Tens of thousands of people held a candlelit vigil in a rain-soaked Hong Kong park on Tuesday to urge China to respect human rights on the 24th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square,” Reuters…

China’s persecution of dissidents and their families should be on the agenda when President Obama meets Chinese President Xi Jinping in California this week, say two leading rights advocates.

“Emblematic of this repression is the plight of 2010 Nobel …

The growing economic power and global presence of China’s “rapacious state capitalism” is posing a political and ideological threat to liberal democracy, say two prominent analysts.

“By buying companies, exploiting natural resources, building infrastructure and giving loans all over the …

Democracy v authoritarianism is only one of a number of the tensions shaping potential regional alliances and conflicts in Asia’s new ‘game of thrones,’ writes Walter Russell Mead.

On his recent trip to Pakistan – where, a …

Religious freedom continued to decline in China this year, according to the State Department’s 2012 Religious Freedom Report. The government “respect for religious freedom declined during the year, particularly in Tibetan areas and the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Republic,” said …

Laws on blasphemy and apostasy are being used to silence political dissent and suppress government critics, according to the U.S. State Department’s annual report, which documents a pronounced decline in religious liberty that has generated growing religious intolerance and …