Asia Pacific Feb 24, 2022

How China under Xi Jinping is turning away from the world

The country’s most dominant leader since Mao is redefining China’s relationship with the world, recasting the meeting of minds and cultures as a zero-sum clash.

Asia Pacific / Science & Health Feb 17, 2022

Hong Kong can’t live with the virus. It can’t stop it, either.

With hospital beds on sidewalks and testing lines winding through parks, the city’s flailing response has exposed crucial weaknesses.

Asia Pacific Jan 30, 2022

Living by the code: In China, COVID-era controls may outlast the virus

Beijing already had a vast ability to track its 1.4 billion citizens before the pandemic — now that monitoring is far more expansive.

Asia Pacific / Social Issues Jan 3, 2022

China moves to overhaul protections for women’s rights, sort of

The Chinese government is set to change its law governing women’s rights for the first time in decades, but the obvious contradictions have left many women feeling skeptical.

Asia Pacific Nov 29, 2021

Deep underground, a Chinese miner discovered poetry in the toil

More than three decades after scribbling his first poem as a teenager in the mountains of northern China, Chen Nianxi is living a literary dream.

Asia Pacific Jun 28, 2021

Crossing the red line: Behind China’s takeover of Hong Kong

One year ago, the city’s freedoms were curtailed with breathtaking speed. But the clampdown was years in the making, and many signals were missed.

Asia Pacific Jan 27, 2021

Hong Kong’s first COVID-19 lockdown exposes deep-rooted inequality

Hong Kong has long been one of the most unequal places on Earth, a city where luxury malls sit shoulder-to-shoulder with overcrowded tenements.

Asia Pacific Jan 23, 2021

A year later, the first post-pandemic city

The long months of harsh lockdown have faded from view in Wuhan, the first city in the world devastated by the new coronavirus.

Asia Pacific Jan 17, 2021

In Hong Kong, a new party calls for stability — and raises suspicions

The party, led by business executives who moved to Hong Kong from the mainland, is entering the fray amid forceful moves by Beijing to quash dissent.

Asia Pacific Dec 26, 2020

She chronicled China’s crisis. Now she is accused of spreading lies.

Woman who became a symbol of Beijing's efforts to deny its early failings in the pandemic set for first known trial of a chronicler of China’s coronavirus crisis.