China

Explore our coverage of China’s politics, economics, business and culture, in articles, charts, podcasts and video


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Is Xi Jinping an AI doomer?

China’s elite is split over artificial intelligence

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In China’s “median city” people are surprisingly risk-averse

Our columnist travels there to ask ordinary people two mega-questions

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Why are VPNs getting slower in China?

The government seems increasingly uneasy about people leaping over the great firewall

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Time for China to get serious about its methane emissions

Officials mull a future of less coal and fewer cows—and don’t like it

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Millions of Chinese people play guandan. Is that good or bad?

The Communist Party is torn on the merits of the popular card game

Asia

If a China and America war went nuclear, who would win?

After 45 days of conventional fighting nukes would be tempting, wargamers suggest

Podcast Drum Tower

Can state-sponsored vacations change Taiwanese attitudes towards China?

Our weekly podcast on China. This week we examine how the Communist Party attempts to win over young Taiwanese

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China’s rulers are surprised by Kamala Harris and Tim Walz

One has never been to China, the other has visited 30 times

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Colin Huang, China’s richest man

He is the kind of tech billionaire the Communist Party can accept

Asia

Taiwan braces for America’s election

For the opposition, a possible Trump victory is another reason to talk to China

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China’s wealthy elite rigs its university arms race

Children from poor and rural areas have little hope of keeping up with their rich counterparts

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A gruesome corpse scandal sparks outrage in China

The government’s reaction has been to stifle any discussion of 4,000 stolen bodies

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How China thrives in a world of turmoil

The guerrilla tactics of the Long March guide the Communist Party to this day

Finance & economics

What is behind China’s perplexing bond-market intervention?

The central bank seems to think the government’s debt is too popular

Podcast Drum Tower

Why Xi Jinping is resurrecting Mao-era propaganda methods

Our weekly podcast on China. This week, we travel to Inner Mongolia to examine the return of Ulan Muqir troupes

By Invitation

Indermit Gill on what China and India must do to join the rich club

First invest, then infuse foreign technology and then innovate, says the World Bank’s chief economist

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