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News and analysis about China, a country with the world's second-largest economy, a terrible record on human rights, and global ambitions.

If aliens are calling, let it go to voicemail

By Bryan Walsh

Why Biden’s off-the-cuff comment about defending Taiwan matters

By Jonathan Guyer

What Biden’s approach to Asia misses

By Jonathan Guyer

The developing Covid crisis in Beijing, explained

By Muizz Akhtar

Was Russia’s decision to cut off natural gas exports a mistake?

By Natasha Ishak

The economic crisis in Sri Lanka, explained

By Natasha Ishak

How China’s zero-Covid policy is failing Shanghai

By Ellen Ioanes

What the media needs to get right in the next pandemic

By Kelsey Piper

What Chinese media is saying about Russia’s Ukraine war

By Jen Kirby

How Hong Kong’s pandemic success story turned into a nightmare

By Umair Irfan

The war in Ukraine could portend the end of the “long peace”

By Bryan Walsh

How to clear the air in the most polluted cities on Earth

By Siobhan McDonough

The Olympic ideal is about world peace. The Olympic reality is far from it.

By Bryan Walsh

Why the Olympics opening ceremony felt kinda weird

By Aja Romano

What the Doomsday Clock is really counting down to

By Bryan Walsh

The great population growth slowdown

By Bryan Walsh

22 things we think will happen in 2022

By Dylan Matthews, Kelsey Piper, and 1 more

22 predictions we made in 2021, and the 13 we got right

By Dylan Matthews, Sigal Samuel, and 1 more

What happens when omicron hits China

By Jonathan Guyer

What the US’s diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Olympics does — and doesn’t — mean

By Jen Kirby

What Peng Shuai’s rape accusation says about China

By Ellen Ioanes

What one American’s case says about the future of the courts in Hong Kong

By Jen Kirby

Maybe losing the AI race to China isn’t such a bad idea

By Adam Clark Estes

When removing a statue actually is antidemocratic

By Jen Kirby

The many signals China is sending with its Taiwan flyovers

By Jen Kirby

“Neoliberalism has really ruptured”: Adam Tooze on the legacy of 2020

By Zack Beauchamp

How your favorite jeans might be fueling a human rights crisis

Cotton’s connection to forced labor by Uyghurs in Xinjiang ought to have you rethinking fast fashion.

By Sofi Thanhauser

Will China’s national security law break Hong Kong as a business hub?

By Jen Kirby

The danger of anti-China rhetoric

By Li Zhou

China’s national security legislation is destroying Hong Kong’s rule of law

By Jen Kirby

China is buying Muslim leaders’ silence on the Uyghurs

By Alex Ward

China extends reach in Hong Kong over Tiananmen Square vigil

By Brittany Gibson

Why there’s talk about China starting a war with Taiwan

By Alex Ward

Ben Rhodes is worried about Joe Biden’s climate change and China policies

By Alex Ward

A pro-democracy activist on Hong Kong’s year of turmoil: “The city itself is dying”

By Jen Kirby

The future of AI is being shaped right now. How should policymakers respond?

By Kelsey Piper

Why China is still clinging to coal

By Lili Pike

Don’t expect the US and China to be friendly anytime soon

By Alex Ward

How the US and China can jump-start cooperation on climate change

By Jariel Arvin

The first US-China meeting reveals a “rough start” to relations

By Alex Ward

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