China is a central actor in the war with Iran, though it remains largely unnamed in Washington’s public debate.

Social media are awash with images of the Middle East taken by Chinese satellites and released by Chinese firms. This comes ...

No other ancient historian has written a book so insightful on the mechanisms of war as Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War.

As Trump pursued an unpopular war, Beijing positioned itself as a peacemaker, with little incentive to pressure Iran or annoy ...

"The Hormuz crisis has shown China that it does not need to sink ships in the waters around Taiwan to shut down a global ...

As U.S. Vice President JD Vance returned to Washington last weekend after unsuccessful peace talks in Pakistan over the ...

While US and Israeli fire threatened some of Iran’s most cherished cultural relics, scores of Persian artefacts were safe and ...

All great empires and dominant national states have eventually confronted the limits of their power and struggled to manage ...

The political scientist Graham Allison famously warned that the two countries could fall into what he called “the Thucydides trap,” based on the idea that war is likely when a rising state threatens ...

A recent archaeological excavation in northwest China has uncovered a 3,000-year-old burial site containing deliberately broken bronze weapons, offering a remarkable glimpse into ancient attitudes ...

The country should begin renaming places in Xinjiang using their ancient names — Khotan, Kushgar, Kucha, Yarkand, Turfan, et al. The region itself can be called Bhadrasva, a name firmly grounded in ...