From 2016 to 2023, we published an extraordinary range of China-focused articles, podcasts, interviews, and videos. Here are a few highlights Read More

Asia’s LGBT capital ended its pride week with a hugely successful parade. The movement faces its challenges though Read More

Brian Linden and his wife Jeanee invested their life savings in building a business in rural China decades ago. The legacy and future of their work are uncertain amid shaky U.S.-China relati… Read More

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The region has some of the largest mineral reserves for this industry, including copper and lithium. Chinese companies also see opportunities in the local vehicle market Read More

Xi Jinping and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese met for the second time in Beijing today. It’s the strongest signal to date that ties between their two countries are improvin… Read More

This is what’s on the diplomatic, political, and business agenda for the week of November 6–12 Read More

Arkansas recently ordered ChemChina-owned Syngenta to sell its land in the state. Other states are also putting up walls for Chinese buyers Read More

The underlying premises driving China's approach in the Middle East seem increasingly out of sync with the shifting realities. Perhaps most ironically, Hamas (and its supporters in Iran, etc… Read More

A new phrase describes the sentiment in China toward the sudden death of Li Keqiang Read More

Vivid descriptions of Republican-Era Beijing meld with a timeless story about the vicissitudes of a worker's life Read More

The Central Financial Work Conference signaled a willingness for the central government to inject more money into the economy and inhibit local government debt, while emphasizing increased g… Read More

He earned a degree from Yale, tried to fight in the American Civil War, and donated the books that became the core of Yale’s East Asian library. In the end, though, Yung Wing was still… Read More

China’s Ministry of State Security investigated 3,000 meteorological stations for sending weather data abroad, as the country tightens up on cross-border data flows and beefs up its an… Read More

Like many visitors who have returned to China for the first time after the pandemic, Kevin Xu found a changed, more isolated country. But is it going backward or barreling into the future? Read More

Writing from Kyiv, Ukrainian Sinologist Vita Golod explains why her country’s president has not criticized China for its moral support of Russia after Putin invaded last year Read More

The annual Xiangshan security and military conference in Beijing runs from October 29 to October 31. China’s military representatives are talking tough on Taiwan but signaling willingn… Read More

Ongoing violence in Balochistan and Xi Jinping’s shifting Belt and Road priorities may end Pakistan and China’s pipeline dreams Read More

Rayhan Asat comments on China’s stance on the Israel-Hamas conflict, the Muslim world’s silence on ongoing rights abuses against Uyghurs in China, and the responsibility of the C… Read More

This is what’s on the diplomatic, political, and business agenda for the week of October 30–November 5 Read More

An unwinnable war and unification by force may be coming to Taiwan. How are its people to process the prospect of national demise? Chinese history may offer some lessons Read More

The former senior official was well liked at home and abroad, but in the New Era of Xi Jinping, Li was never more than China’s No. 2 Read More

The former senior official was well liked at home and abroad, but in the New Era of Xi Jinping, Li was never more than China’s No. 2 Read More

Taylor Swift can do everything, including speak Chinese. Except she can’t: the Mandarin-language video is a product of artificial intelligence technology from HeyGen, a company founded… Read More

A new phrase describes the high-pressure and unhealthy lifestyles of university students in China Read More

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Outside of the well-documented internment camp system, the Poverty Alleviation through Labor Transfer program is normalizing forced labor for Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples in China, accor… Read More

Newly announced controls close some loopholes, and align U.S. efforts with restrictions published by the Netherlands and Japan in the past year Read More

In October 1871, 10% of the Chinese population in Los Angeles was wiped out in a senseless spasm of violence Read More

Sun Yat-sen's interpretation of "The Social Interpretation of History" — a self-published book with only 2,000 copies printed at the time — had crucial implications for the young… Read More

There's a new sense of urgency to China's looming demographic crisis Read More

This is what’s on the diplomatic, political, and business agenda for the week of October 16–22 Read More

RISC-V architecture that connects hardware and software could boost China’s chips sector and shrink the market for American-made chips Read More

Public bus companies in multiple Chinese cities are now allowing customers to rent their vehicles as wedding cars in order to increase revenue Read More

Rowan Simons became a household name among Chinese soccer fans for his TV commentary on English football. His efforts to promote grassroots soccer within China proved much more difficult Read More

Had an earlier uprising — one of many — against the Qing achieved its goals, 1911 would be just another year. But the 1911 Revolution succeeded, and catalyzed an entire series of… Read More

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China has expressed “sadness” at the “civilian casualties caused by the conflict,” but stopped short of condemning Hamas for its attack on Israel Read More

This is what’s on the diplomatic, political, and business agenda for the week of October 9–15 Read More

In January 2018, China sentenced writer, critic, and educator Yalqun Rozi to 15 years in prison for "splittism" and "extremist ideas." Read More

The key events this week are the China-Germany Finance Dialogue and the ongoing Asian Games Read More

The renowned Uyghur anthropologist Rahile Dawut disappeared in 2017 and was convicted of "splittism." Confirmation that her appeal was rejected means she’ll likely spend the rest of he… Read More

Dao Lang’s latest studio album, "There Are Few Folk Songs," with its incorporation of multiethnic instruments and strange rhythms, has touched a nerve among the Chinese public. Listen… Read More

After a two-year absence that left fans jonesing for her fairy-tale portrayal of rural life, China’s global social media star is once again the talk of the Chinese internet. Can she re… Read More

This is what’s on the diplomatic, political, and business agenda for the week of September 25–October 1 Read More

Today, many young Chinese are caught between a belief in the importance of cultural confidence and the need to exist in a globalized world in which English carries economic privileges and pr… Read More

“I don’t think it calls into question Xi Jinping’s control of the military, but it should be a reminder about how much corruption exists in the system,” says one Chin… Read More

This is what’s on the diplomatic, political, and business agenda for the week of September 18–24 Read More

China is the world’s largest renewables generator and has cleaned the air in many cities, but it remains the world’s largest polluter, is addicted to coal, and is wasting solar p… Read More