China
News and analysis about China, a country with the world’s second-largest economy, a terrible record on human rights, and global ambitions.
The unnerving similarities — and key differences — between our current moment and the Cold War, explained by an expert.
Why the world’s most populous country (for now) is experiencing population decline.
US officials are sold on Japan’s new military posture. Japan’s public might not be.
China is opening up rapidly after three years of lockdown. The rest of the world is scrambling to respond.
The US’s decades-long relationship with Saudi Arabia continues to crumble.
Millions of lives are at stake as the country prepares to relax its Covid strategy.
Protests in China might force the government to back down from its extreme Covid-19 restrictions and ramp up its extreme surveillance.
China used its Covid strategy to sell its public, and the world, on the stability of its governing system. Now what?
A wave of protests by Chinese citizens is a reminder that the desire for a normal life can be as hard to suppress as a virus.
It’s not Tiananmen, but Xi Jinping faces his first China-wide protests.
In cities across China, people are protesting Xi Jinping’s Covid policy — and even demanding his resignation.
Nuclear diplomacy is urgently needed amid rising tensions but politically untenable.
After meeting China’s leader Monday, Biden told reporters he believes “there need not be a new Cold War.”
The ban on semiconductor exports to China is one of the most important policy moves of the year — and could set off a geopolitical quake.
China’s 20th Communist Party Congress broke precedent and promoted loyalists.
Her brother was taken captive by China. She’s now become a leading figure in the campaign against China’s genocide in Xinjiang.
The journalist is covering the role that the world’s largest carbon emitter plays in the climate fight.
Xi Jinping versus the stans.
6 questions about the biggest political event of the year.
What Xi learned from the Soviet Union, the US, and the Arab Spring.
China’s catastrophic summer shows its climate adaptation plans still have a long way to go.
Computer chips are ubiquitous, but they’re only made in a few places.
How Washington came to see China as an existential threat, explained.
US policy toward Taiwan is all about “strategic ambiguity.” That means every trip and remark has to be just right.
The assassination of Abe, who was Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, shocks a peaceful country.
Big Hollywood movies are being made with Chinese audiences in mind.
Chinese President Xi Jinping swore in John Lee, marking a new era of antidemocratic governance in Hong Kong.
Receiving signals from extraterrestrial civilizations could pose an existential risk. Really.
Biden hasn’t discarded longtime policy toward Taiwan, but it sounds like he has.
Can the president’s Asia-Pacific trip be about more than countering China?
Covid has surged in the Chinese capital. What happens there will reverberate around the world.
Despite Western sanctions, the country still maintains powerful friends — for now.
A mountain of foreign debt has led the country to default on loans for the first time since its 1948 independence.
Rare dissent flares in China’s financial hub as residents struggle to access food and medicine.
Journalists struggled to accurately convey scientific uncertainty on Covid-19.
State propaganda and online discourse offer a glimpse into how Beijing sees Russia’s Ukraine war.
A Hong Kong doctor explains the critical weak point behind the city’s spike in Covid-19 deaths.
The decline of major conflict helped support decades of prosperity, but that future is now in doubt.
How countries like India can have economic growth and cleaner air.
As the Beijing Winter Games begin, hopes that international sport could help promote global peace are melting away.