Asia Pacific Aug 11, 2022
Beijing has raged at a trip to Taiwan last week by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, staging days of air and sea drills around the island.
Business Jul 1, 2022
ANA to resume flights from Beijing to Narita after suspension
ANA will only operate one-way flights on Mondays for the time being due to Chinese COVID-19 restrictions.
Asia Pacific / Politics Jun 30, 2022
Hong Kong has 'risen from the ashes,' China's Xi says on rare visit
by Kari Lindberg and Rebecca Choong Wilkins
This is Xi Jinping's first trip to the territory since orchestrating crackdowns on political dissent and COVID-19, which put the city's future as a financial hub at risk.
Asia Pacific / Crime & Legal Jun 27, 2022
‘An invisible cage’: How China is policing the future
by Paul Mozur, Muyi Xiao and John Liu
The latest generation of technology digs through vast amounts of data to find patterns and aberrations, promising to predict crimes or protests before they happen.
Asia Pacific / Politics Jun 13, 2022
Hong Kong school quarantine request hints at Xi handover visit
China's top leaders have attended the swearing-in of every Hong Kong chief executive since the 1997 handover, but Xi has not left the mainland since the coronavirus pandemic began.
Business / Financial Markets Jun 7, 2022
Marxism makes a comeback in China’s crackdown on ‘disorderly capital’
by Tom Hancock
Since the end of 2020, when China’s Communist Party began vowing to rein in the "disorderly expansion of capital,” a regulatory onslaught has swept through the economy and stock market.
Asia Pacific / Science & Health Jun 5, 2022
Even a diehard COVID-19 test advocate says China is going too far
Wedded to a strategy that still seeks to eliminate every coronavirus case, the country is rolling out a vast network of testing booths in urban areas.
Asia Pacific / Politics Jun 5, 2022
Mourning Tiananmen’s victims, and the Hong Kong that was
by Austin Ramzy, John Liu and Chris Buckley
Since 2020, when Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law on Hong Kong, the local government has essentially banned public commemorations of the 1989 killings.
Asia Pacific May 10, 2022
The videos come as Shanghai tightens some aspects of its intensive lockdown despite a drop-off in new infections.
Asia Pacific / Politics May 7, 2022
From the national anthem to George Orwell, China's netizens find new ways to voice discontent over COVID zero measures.
Asia Pacific May 4, 2022
Hong Kong plots different COVID-19 path to China's zero tolerance
by Kari Lindberg and Richard Frost
As Shanghai and Beijing stick ever more closely to "COVID-zero" principles, Hong Kong is methodically moving toward opening up to the rest of the world.
Asia Pacific May 4, 2022
The capital shut more than 40 subway stations, about a tenth of the network, and 158 bus routes.