Who works where, doing what, in China
China’s tech bros, including Jack Ma of Alibaba and Liang Wenfeng of DeepSeek, stole all the attention at the high-profile sy...
Could there be Chinese troops in Europe?
Since russia’s invasion of Ukraine three years ago, China has been a stalwart supporter of its giant neighbour, and has mostl...
China’s alarming sex imbalance
“Of course I want to get married,” says Fu, a lorry driver in Yiyang, a far-flung county in Jiangxi province. Once a migrant ...
Chinese authorities try to stop parents gaming the exam system (again)
An ancient Chinese saying states that meng mu san qian: the mother of Mencius, a sage, “moved three times” to find him the ri...
Behind DeepSeek lies a dazzling Chinese university
A huge statue of Mao Zedong still stands near the entrance to Zhejiang University, surveying the transformation of the easter...
Hail China’s new “ice-and-snow economy”
It is not known whether Xi Jinping has ever strapped planks to his feet and raced down a mountain at speed. But at a banquet ...
Panama symbolises the Sino-American struggle for influence
Panama responded quickly to Donald Trump’s rhetoric about Chinese influence in the Panama Canal. On February 2nd it said it w...
Tensions with the West are fuelling China’s anxiety about food supplies
American soyabean farmers could draw some comfort from the tariffs that China imposed on an array of American imports on Febr...
Cuts in American aid are crippling groups promoting rights in China
China Labour Watch (clw), an ngo based in New York City, has investigated labour abuses in Chinese supply chains for 20 years...
Donald Trump’s new trade war on China is also an opioid war
President Donald Trump has long threatened to launch a trade war but the one he began on February 1st against Canada, China a...