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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
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Asia
If a China and America war went nuclear, who would win?
After 45 days of conventional fighting nukes would be tempting, wargamers suggest
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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
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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
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Finance & economics
What is behind China’s perplexing bond-market intervention?
The central bank seems to think the government’s debt is too popular
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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
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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