Chinese leader Xi Jinping in an annual New Year’s address sought to shore up confidence that Beijing can make an economic transition and resist foreign pressure wsj.com/world/china/ch… via The Wall Street Journal

China Adds to Sanctions of U.S. Defense Contractors Over Taiwan Arms Sales wsj.com/world/china/ch… via The Wall Street Journal

Chinese leader Xi Jinping spoke with President-elect Donald Trump; set plans for strategic communications channel wsj.com/world/china/ch… via The Wall Street Journal

Donald Trump says China is running the Panama Canal. Here’s what we found…. wsj.com/world/americas…

We asked DeepSeek some 'sensitive' questions wsj.com/tech/ai/deepse… via The Wall Street Journal

President Trump’s executive orders and actions taking aim at Beijing suggest a focus less framed around ideology than under the Biden administration wsj.com/world/china/wh… via The Wall Street Journal

President Trump is rewriting the playbook for solving the world’s intractable conflicts—Ukraine, Gaza…Taiwan? wsj.com/world/trump-wr…

A deal to put U.S. investors in control of a global ports network, including berths at the Panama Canal, marks rare American inroads in a strategic sector dominated by Beijing. wsj.com/world/china/pa… via The Wall Street Journal

Unsealed federal allegations detail former New York state gubernatorial aide Linda Sun’s “pay-to-play scheme” that generated a stream of funds and gifts as she did favors for China wsj.com/us-news/what-n…

Ports sale kerfuffle highlights tough relations between Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing and China's Xi Jinping wsj.com/world/china/ho… via The Wall Street Journal

Political operative Michael Lucci, founder of the nonprofit State Armor Action, is China’s biggest adversary in U.S. statehouses wsj.com/us-news/the-ch… via The Wall Street Journal

As a new U.S. trade war dawns, American specialty-materials giant DuPont finds itself in China’s firing line—again wsj.com/business/dupon… via The Wall Street Journal

Americans see trade as unbalanced in China’s favor, but Pew says they are divided over tariffs wsj.com/economy/trade/… via The Wall Street Journal

A Chinese halt on Boeing aircraft purchases, if sustained, risks backfiring on China’s homegrown plane maker Comac before the upstart is globally competitive wsj.com/world/china/ho…

Flipped script: pillar of New York’s Chinese community heads to prison after Beijing labels a U.S. resident a criminal fugitive wsj.com/world/china/ho… via The Wall Street Journal

Trump spent high school at New York Military Academy; its Chinese owner is trying to make the school great again wsj.com/us-news/educat… via The Wall Street Journal

How Republicans linked Harvard to Uyghur genocide over China health-insurance event wsj.com/world/china/ha… via The Wall Street Journal

A once-symbiotic melding of American capital with Chinese growth is unraveling wsj.com/finance/stocks… via The Wall Street Journal

How China built at global network of shipping ports wsj.com/business/logis…

Congress, including Republicans, push China on human rights as Trump talks trade wsj.com/politics/polic… via The Wall Street Journal