On April 30, 2025, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) issued the first draft of the Ecological and Environmental Code (the Draft Code) for public comment. This legislation ...

What is the South China Sea dispute? Explore the territorial claims of China, the Philippines, and others, the Nine-Dash Line, and the fight for the Spratly Islands.

In late 2025, protests in Gabès over pollution from the phosphate industry led Tunisia to seek Chinese help to reduce ...

This article was submitted as part of the Global Voices Climate Justice fellowship, which pairs journalists from Sinophone and Global Majority countries to investigate the effects of Chinese ...

In recent years, the same system has been adapted to monitor wetlands and waterways. Local authorities now feed drone video, bank cameras, and environmental sensors into the City Brain platform. The ...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 (UPI) --A wave of maritime conferences across Southeast Asia and China this fall suggests a subtle, but notable, shift in how regional governments are approaching the South China ...

The 25th EU–China summit ended in Beijing in July 2025 without meaningful progress on key issues like Ukraine, trade, or market access, underscoring the erosion of the political will for deeper ...