Last week German Chancellor Angela Merkel hosted visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping at a dinner where they exchanged gifts.

Two years after an international court struck down China’s dotted lines in the South China Sea as being “without lawful effect,” Chinese researchers have published details of a historical ...

Crow was a ceaseless promoter of China in general and Shanghai in particular, and the map illustrates his vision of a “cosmopolitan” city where American, French, British, and Chinese cultures ...

The 1951 map found by Chinese researchers is not legally binding, but maritime experts say Beijing might use it to solidify control of the disputed South China Sea ...

Certain aspects of China today are without historical precedent, but some lessons do arise from Japan's and America's own imperial pasts, write historians Alexis Dudden and Jeffrey Wasserstrom.

The current understanding of “historic rights” in the South China Sea in China can be traced back to a U.S. diplomat.