China
Explore our coverage of China’s politics, economics, business and culture, in articles, charts, podcasts and video
Asia
Chinese firms are expanding in South-East Asia
This new business diaspora is younger, better-educated and ambitious
China
Why China is unlikely to restrain Iran
Officials in Beijing are looking out for China’s interests, not anyone else’s
China
China’s ties with Russia are growing more solid
Our columnist visits a future Russian outpost in China’s most advanced spaceport
International
The tech wars are about to enter a fiery new phase
America, China and the battle for supremacy
Finance and economics
Chinese authorities are now addicted to traffic fines
What that tells you about the country’s economic woes
Leaders
How strong is India’s economy?
It isn’t the next China, but it could still transform itself and the world
Business
Congress tells China: sell TikTok or we’ll ban it
Only America’s courts can save the video app now
Finance and economics
Why a stronger dollar is dangerous
It sets the stage for a nasty new Trump-China clash, among other things
China
How Chinese networks clean dirty money on a vast scale
These shadowy “banks” are becoming the financiers of choice for transnational criminal gangs
By Invitation
Desmond Shum on how Xi Jinping beat down China’s red aristocrats
It took one of their own to do it, says the businessman and author
China
The dark side of growing old
A coming wave of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia will test China to its limits
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Examining the fluff that frustrates northern China
An effort to improve the environment has had unintended consequences
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China is talking to Taiwan’s next leader, just not directly
Officials in Beijing want the island’s new president to be more like one from the past
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Why so many Chinese graduates cannot find work
Our number-crunching suggests that their plight could be much worse than previously thought