Our weekly podcast on China. This week, for the first episode of our series on the future of Taiwan, we look at how identity ties the island together—and how it divides society

The Chinese government is taking draconian measures to slash birth rates among Uighurs and other minorities as part of a sweeping campaign to curb its Muslim population, even as it encourages some of...

Amazon.com Inc was marketing a collection of President Xi Jinping's speeches and writings on its Chinese website about two years ago, when Beijing delivered an edict, according to two people familiar...

Teachers and students have refused to comply with a new bilingual education program in Inner Mongolia. The state is cracking down in response.

Five years after China’s incarceration and forced labor campaign began, most Uyghurs abroad remain cut off from their families. Some are speaking out.

Online searches for words related to emigrating have spiked

A vast system of Chinese surveillance, detention, cultural erasure and forced labor has devastated the Uighur people in Xinjiang, their homeland.

Traditional medicine is long-revered in Hong Kong, a bastion of Chinese cultural tradition even among residents who resent Chinese Communist Party rule.

A growing number of professors in China have been punished for 'improper speech.' Some are reported by students, harking back to the Cultural Revolution.

Coronavirus testing shortages are breeding chaos at some hospitals. Sick patients and health care workers are going untested, they say.

Tsewang Norbu was not the bubbly singer he appeared to be

But the government shows little sign of changing its zero-covid policy

“Genocide has to be a red line.”

Mainlanders are willing to give up their freedoms in exchange for stability, development and wealth. That deal doesn't fly in Hong Kong.

Mainlanders who deviate from the government line on Hong Kong protests are being threatened and detained.

Human rights lawyer Wang Yu made a forced confession in prison so her son could leave China. He arrived in Los Angeles and was held in a desert prison.

The former de facto ambassador to America is running for vice-president

Covid lockdowns and constant surveillance probably do not help

A low-tech arm of a high-tech police state

As the Communist Party's centennial nears, China is erasing official wrongs and party history to create a triumphalist story for a young generation.

In Gansu province, China promises a better future to Muslim minorities — if they trade their devotion to faith for devotion to the Communist Party.

China’s oppression of Muslims reaches beyond Xinjiang into Pakistan. Why does it stay quiet?

With elections looming, China wants Taiwanese voters to think America is their greatest threat

Our weekly podcast on China. This week, we hitch a ride on a Chinese-built railway in Laos

At his headquarters in Kyiv, Ukraine’s president speaks to The Economist about his country’s battle and the struggle of light over dark

Beijing has made a hero of Wuhan, the sacrificial city whose people struggled and died to stop a virus. But many in Wuhan remember they didn't ask to be sacrificed.

Throughout the pandemic, Lee Duk-hoon has coped the only way she knows how — bringing order to a chaotic world one head of hair at a time.

Tsewang Norbu was not the bubbly singer he appeared to be

More than 5,000 Italian health workers have been infected with the coronavirus

China has opened a new front in its pressure campaign against Taiwan with a series of spying allegations and confessions aired on state television, denounced on the democratic island as entrapment...

China's forceful implementation of a new language policy in Inner Mongolia has drawn criticism, even from the Communist Party elite.

China's paramount leader, Xi Jinping, sees himself as a savior, anointed to steer the Communist Party and China away from corruption and foreign influence, into a 'new era' of prosperity, power and...

A vast fishing armada off Ecuador’s biodiverse Pacific islands has stirred alarm over ‘indiscriminate’ fishing practices

A commentary published widely in Chinese state-run media described President Xi Jinping’s regulatory crackdown as a “profound revolution” sweeping the country and warned that anyone who resisted...

Women's tennis takes a stand for Peng Shuai, a Chinese player who accused a Communist Party leader of sexual abuse and then vanished from public view.

China's incessant military drills drive Taiwan to look for more support.

No one knows how or when Xi Jinping’s zero-covid policy will end

Women's tennis takes a stand for Peng Shuai, a Chinese player who accused a Communist Party leader of sexual abuse and then vanished from public view.

Henan adheres to a familiar formula in Xi Jinping's China: Authorities turn tragedy into triumph, while controlling victims' narratives.

"Hong Kong is not in a state of emergency," Chief Executive Carrie Lam said as thousands of masked protesters poured into the streets.

As levees break and houses topple into rivers, Chinese farmers and migrant workers in rural areas of Jiangxi province struggle to survive.

Less than two weeks under a new national security law enacted by Beijing, Hong Kong residents already feel a curtain of control falling over the city's realms of speech and thought.

Households across the region look very different from previous generations. Governments are struggling to keep up

It will have to cope with China’s anger