Asia Pacific Apr 2, 2021
China slams foreign correspondents club as an 'illegal organization'
The BBC’s China correspondent John Sudworth recently left Beijing for Taipei, citing intimidation of his family and threats of legal action.
Asia Pacific Jan 21, 2021
China barricades part of capital as COVID-19 outbreak escalates
Beijing has imposed a lockdown of 1.7 million people in part of the Chinese capital as officials race to prevent a COVID-19 resurgence in the country’s northern region from seeping into its most important city. Daxing district in southern Beijing, where its new airport is ...
Asia Pacific Jan 13, 2021
China has recorded the biggest daily jump in COVID-19 cases in more than five months, despite four cities in lockdown, increased testing and other measures aimed at preventing another wave of infections in the world's second biggest economy. Most of the new patients were reported ...
Asia Pacific Jan 8, 2021
City near Beijing locked down and millions tested as COVID-19 outbreak grows
The total size of the cluster centering on Shijiazhuang has risen to 123 confirmed cases, excluding asymptomatic ones, which have also been detected in the mass testing.
Asia Pacific Jan 4, 2021
Thousands of people lined up in Beijing on Monday to receive a COVID-19 vaccine as China races to innoculate millions before the Chinese New Year mass travel season in February. More than 73,000 people in the Chinese capital have received the first dose of the ...
Commentary / World Nov 22, 2020
After 23 years of Chinese rule, Hong Kong is back to square one
by Frank Ching
Hong Kong's chief executive has created a path for the city's leadership to remove legislators at will, without involvement of the legislature itself or the judiciary.
Asia Pacific Oct 17, 2020
In Hong Kong, Chinese Communist Party officials stride out of the shadows
by Austin Ramzy, Vivian Wang and Chris Buckley
Xi Jinping is intent on extending party dominance across the entire country, especially in Hong Kong, an enclave of resistance that erupted in protest last year.
Asia Pacific / Science & Health Jul 9, 2020
Smog caused an estimated 49,000 deaths in Beijing and Shanghai since Jan. 1
Air pollution has caused an estimated 49,000 deaths and $23 billion in economic losses in the cities of Beijing and Shanghai alone since Jan. 1, according to a "clean air counter" launched by environmental groups on Thursday. The online tool launched by the Helsinki-based Centre ...
Asia Pacific Jun 24, 2020
China-India border clash leads to contrasting domestic responses
by Yew Lun Tian and Sanjeev Miglani
The skirmish between Chinese and Indian troops over a long-disputed border this month is being treated in New Delhi as the country's worst diplomatic crisis in decades even as it is downplayed by Beijing. China and President Xi Jinping are already locked in diplomatic combat ...
Asia Pacific | FOCUS Jun 23, 2020
Just as Beijing looked poised to claim victory over the coronavirus, a 52-year-old man with fever and chills showed how the pandemic can come roaring back from apparent obscurity.
Asia Pacific / Crime & Legal Jun 19, 2020
China charges two Canadians with spying 18 months after arrest
China has formally charged two Canadians with spying, officials said Friday, more than 18 months after they were arrested in a spat between Beijing and Ottawa. The pair were detained shortly after Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Canada on a U.S. warrant, in ...
Asia Pacific / Politics Jun 18, 2020
Beijing's coronavirus outbreak poses test for Xi, China’s chairman of everything
The stakes are especially high for Xi, who has staked his credibility on China’s response and sought to frame himself as a global leader in the crisis.