Every five years China's Communist Party holds a meeting in secret called the "third plenum". And while it may sound arcane, there are a lot of important policy decisions that have come out of this meeting. Our correspondent in Beijing tells us what is at stake for the meeting this week.

Authorities in Venezuela are using all manner of tricks to try to ensure President Nicholas Maduro is reelected next month. However, as we hear, it seems that the stunts and intimidation are not working.

And in China, the number of American's studying abroad is increasing, but is nowhere near pre-COVID levels. We look at why.

President Putin starts his first foreign trip of this new term: a two-day visit to China to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Here's the significance of this trip and what we can expect from it,

The Chinese government just released new economic data following the big May holiday week. Our correspondent reports from Shanghai about how the world's second largest economy is faring.

China launched three astronauts into space last week while Secretary of State Antony Blinken was visiting the country. Likely a coincidence, it still stood as a reminder of China's lofty space goals.

The U.S. is increasingly concerned about the impact of Chinese overcapacity on manufacturing and the impact that will have on American businesses and workers.

Lawmakers in Hong Kong have passed new national security legislation that carries severe punishment for a broad range of offenses, including life imprisonment for acts deemed to be insurrection.

Lawmakers in Hong Kong passed a new national security law. The government casts it as a bid to make the territory safer but some think it may erode Hong Kong's standing as a global financial hub.

For many young Chinese these days, the calculus of having a child is changing. We hear from two women in China — one pregnant with a "dragon baby," and one not.

U.S. stocks have been soaring in recent weeks. But in China, the market has been headed in the opposite direction, and the government in Beijing is starting to pay attention.

China's been the main source of precursor chemicals for the potent drug, and President Biden has made combating fentanyl a policy priority — in the face of tens of thousands of overdoses each year.

Chinese Premier Li Qiang spoke this week at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, saying the Chinese economy was doing just fine. Signals out of Beijing have been conveying a different message.

Voters in Taiwan go to the polls Saturday to pick a new president and legislature. It's being watched closely because democratic Taiwan works closely with the U.S., but it is also claimed by China.

Voters in Taiwan go to the polls on Saturday to pick a new president. The government in Beijing is watching very closely, but are people in China paying that much attention?

China has installed a new defense minister hailing from the navy, months after his predecessor was removed with no explanation.

Mao Zedong built China's Communist revolution on the back of the country's impoverished peasants, and now Chinese leader Xi Jinping wants a new economic revolution to take root in the countryside.

Hong Kong's highest-profile national security trial got under way amid tight security on Monday. It's against Jimmy Lai, a media mogul and democracy campaigner. He is all but certain to be convicted.

In the first of a series of stories about China, NPR's John Ruwitch examines shifts in public perceptions about the country's economic future.

New allegations from one of the two Canadians arrested in China in 2018 reopened a diplomatic feud between Beijing and Ottawa.

President Biden's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping was the big news from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation's forum. Scott Simon and John Ruwitch discuss other developments from the week.