Donald Trump’s new trade war with China is also an opioid war
More than six years after Donald Trump, then in his first term as America’s president, mounted a trade war against China, the...
China needs its frightened officials to save the economy
OVER THE past decade, as Chinese governance has become more politicised and a fear of punishment has taken hold, local offici...
The bad side-effects of China’s campaign to cut drug costs
ANAESTHETICS THAT don’t put patients to sleep. Laxatives that fail to clear bowels. Blood-pressure medication with little eff...
America and China are talking. But much gets lost in translation
EVEN AS AMERICA’S relationship with China enters a new, less predictable era, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping see the value in ta...
How (un)popular is China’s Communist Party?
China’s announcement on January 17th that its economy had grown by an estimated 5% in 2024, right on target, was greeted with...
It’s a good time to be an astrologer in China
YOUNG PEOPLE have always come to Ms Xia with questions about their relationships. Now they often ask the astrologer about the...
The early days of the Trump administration, as viewed from China
CHINA’S STATE media were not impressed by Donald Trump’s first days back in charge of the country’s great geopolitical rival....
An initiative so feared that China has stopped saying its name
LIKE LORD VOLDEMORT from Harry Potter, “Made in China 2025” is an initiative which induces so much fear and loathing abroad t...
An outrage that even China’s supine media has called out
ON DECEMBER 19th relatives of Xing Yanjun gathered in Beijing to mourn the businessman’s death eight months earlier, allegedl...
Why foreign law firms are leaving China
LAWYERS TEND not to inspire much sympathy, but spare a thought for the foreigners drafting briefs in China. For decades they ...