China

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

US-China tensions are every country’s problem now

By Jonathan Guyer September 28

What’s up with China’s disappearing senior military officers?

By Ellen Ioanes September 16

China’s economy is slowing down. What gives?

By Jen Kirby August 29

Why so many countries want to join BRICS

By Jonathan Guyer August 23

It’s time for a new atomic altruism

By Matthew Gentzel and Christian Ruhl August 4

The saga of China’s missing-then-fired foreign minister

By Ellen Ioanes July 27

Here’s what’s at stake in Blinken’s trip to China

By Ellen Ioanes June 18

The US’s multiple Indo-Pacific strategies, explained

By Ellen Ioanes May 27

The nationalist dark side of Joe Biden’s climate policies

By Dylan Matthews May 9

Will having the world’s biggest population make this the “Indian Century”?

By Bryan Walsh April 30

Can a 50-year-old treaty still keep the world safe from the changing threat of bioweapons?

By Jen Kirby April 28

Taiwan’s president is in the Americas — and China’s not happy

By Ellen Ioanes April 6

Why China’s population is shrinking

By Christina Thornell March 28

America’s hypersonic arms race with China, explained

By Ellen Ioanes March 25

Is TikTok too big to ban?

By Sara Morrison March 21

The rise of artificial intelligence, explained

The case for slowing down AI

By Sigal Samuel March 20

The key to Covid’s origin lies in Beijing, not Wuhan

By Bryan Walsh March 18

Steve Bannon’s go-to funder Guo Wengui just got indicted for fraud

By Ben Jacobs March 15

For now, the one thing Congress seems to agree on is China

By Ben Jacobs March 1

After Munich meeting, the US-China relationship is still a mess

By Ellen Ioanes February 19

What’s going on with the unidentified objects that US fighter planes keep taking down?

By Ellen Ioanes February 17

Balloons and UFOs aside, war with China is not inevitable

By Jonathan Guyer February 17

If the US and China go to the brink, can they figure out how to de-escalate?

By Michael Bluhm February 9

The balloon thing is a bad sign for US-China relations

By Jen Kirby February 6

What can the world learn from China’s “zero-Covid” lockdown?

By Rachel DuRose January 31

Are we in a new Cold War?

By Michael Bluhm January 24

How China came to regret its one-child policy

By Bryan Walsh January 18

Japan’s plan to ramp up military spending, explained

By Ellen Ioanes January 15

Xi Jinping has abandoned zero-Covid. What happens now?

By Ellen Ioanes January 1

China’s alliance with Saudi Arabia signals a potential shift in the global order

By Ellen Ioanes December 10, 2022

China’s health system isn’t ready for the end of “zero Covid”

By Dylan Scott December 7, 2022

China’s protests are testing the surveillance state

By Amanda Lewellyn December 5, 2022

China’s Covid narrative is backfiring

By Jen Kirby December 1, 2022

How “zero-Covid” changed China — and the world

By Kelsey Piper November 30, 2022

What makes China’s wave of protests different this time

By Jonathan Guyer November 30, 2022

The wave of protests testing China’s zero-Covid policy, explained

By Ellen Ioanes November 27, 2022

North Korean missile launches may mean new nuclear tests

By Ellen Ioanes November 19, 2022

Biden and Xi met for three hours. It’s the sit-down the world’s been waiting for.

By Jonathan Guyer November 14, 2022

Biden’s hugely consequential high-tech export ban on China, explained by an expert

By Michael Bluhm November 5, 2022

How Xi Jinping secured his third term in power — and quashed dissent

By Ellen Ioanes October 23, 2022

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