Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan.

Chinese authorities said March 25 they had controlled a leak of toxic heavy metal into a river, after media outlets reported that officials had known about the incident for days. An emergency response ...

Authorities are expanding plans to evacuate people in southwestern China as water piles up behind a dam created by an earthquake landslide, state-run media reported Friday. An additional 40,000 people ...

There were homes here once, but Yueyuan village is now a sweeping mud plain. Residents dig through the sludge where they think their bedroom once was. Maybe there is still a loved one under there.

Biqiong Wu is at the Hubei Key Laboratory of Intelligent Yangtze and Hydroelectric Science, China Yangtze Power Company, Yichang, China. China’s Yangtze River is the longest in Eurasia and the ...

Between 1979 and 2015, China implemented a controversial series of one-child policies as a means of population control, creating a national gender imbalance that, despite the cessation of such ...

An acidic waste spill by a Chinese company in Zambia has created a massive environmental crisis that threatens a river on which millions of Zambians rely. The incident occurred last month at a ...