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    US-China relations
    Four teachers from US college stabbed in China

    Authorities say attack in public park in north-eastern city is believed to be isolated incident

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  • Sunday, 26 May, 2024
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    China’s online ‘Kim Kardashian’ banned for being too ostentatious

    Beijing cracks down on social media influencers known for extravagant outfits and displays of wealth

    Chinese influencer Wang Hongquan, aka Wang Hongquanxing, stands second from right with other guests at a BMW event in Cannes this month
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    China’s latest answer to OpenAI is ‘Chat Xi PT’

    Internet regulator uses Chinese leader’s political philosophy to help answer questions posed to latest large language model

    Xi Jinping.
  • Monday, 13 May, 2024
    Chinese politics & policy
    China accused of ‘transnational repression’ of students

    Amnesty International report says Chinese authorities harassing citizens studying in Europe and US

    People at the University of Pennsylvania campus
  • Tuesday, 23 April, 2024
    China’s ageing tech workers hit by ‘curse of 35’

    Discrimination against older employees particularly apparent in sector where executives openly state preference for youth

    ByteDance offices in Beijing
  • Tuesday, 16 April, 2024
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    China’s bubble tea brands look to create a stir overseas

    ChaPanda, Mixue and Guming eye stock market listings after pioneering mainland boom

    A Mixue Ice Cream & Tea booth at an expo in Shanghai in July
  • Saturday, 13 April, 2024
    The Weekend Essay
    The untold human stories of China’s economic boom

    There’s a personal dimension to the nation’s rapid transformation that is crucial to our understanding of it — yet mostly hidden from view

    A girl or young woman with long black hair, white blouse, skirt and trainers sits on a wall facing towards a cityscape of tower blocks and a gleaming skyscraper
  • Friday, 29 March, 2024
    Netflix adaptation of sci-fi novel ‘The Three-Body Problem’ sparks anger in China

    Western take on much-loved Chinese bestseller hits wrong notes for state media and broader audience

    Scenes related to the Cultural Revolution have triggered unease in China
  • Wednesday, 20 March, 2024
    News in-depthNikkei Asia
    Chinese bottled water giant Nongfu Spring under fire from nationalists

    Company’s shares fall amid online criticism of alleged ‘pro-Japan’ stance

    Nongfu Spring bottled water
  • Wednesday, 6 March, 2024
    Lijia Zhang
    China’s invisible women deserve a political voice

    In an era of shrinking population, inequality damages the country — gender quotas should be reformed and implemented properly

    Female attendants serve tea before the opening session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, in March
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    Condé Nast Publications
    Editor of Vogue China to leave in latest senior Condé Nast exit

    Margaret Zhang was seen as one of the group’s rising stars

    Margaret Zhang
  • Sunday, 18 February, 2024
    Chinese economy
    Year of the Dragon opens on high note for China’s economy

    Tourist numbers exceed pre-pandemic levels but spending per traveller is down

    Travellers walking with luggage outside Beijing train station
  • Friday, 2 February, 2024
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    The Lex Newsletter: China’s golden rule Premium content

    Yellow metal’s latest rally boosted by Chinese investors saving for a rainy day

    A shop assistant arranges gold accessories at a  store in Lin’an, China
  • Tuesday, 30 January, 2024
    Stephen Bush
    Goodbye to the days of ambient cultural liberalism

    China’s rise will alter the worldview of at least some consumers who live in democracies

    Ewan White illustration of woman in white shirt and jeans sitting in a cinema with a giant popcorn box, and the shadows of two men whispering in her ear from either side
  • Thursday, 18 January, 2024
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    China hopes for ‘dragon babies’ as population decline gathers pace

    Prolonged economic slowdown is feeding demographic challenges for Beijing

    Hospital staff hold newborn babies in gynecology department of hospital in Jiangsu, China
  • Saturday, 13 January, 2024
    News in-depthChinese corruption
    ‘Gold bars and Moutai’: TV series spotlights China’s corrupt officials

    Critics say primetime documentary celebrating Xi Jinping’s campaign against endemic graft overlooks its systemic roots

    China’s president Xi Jinping
  • Friday, 12 January, 2024
    News in-depthHong Kong economy
    Hongkongers fall for China’s big box stores

    Politicians and retailers alarmed as shoppers increasingly head to the mainland for cheaper goods

    Customers at a Sam’s Club warehouse in Zhuhai
  • Wednesday, 27 December, 2023
    News in-depth
    China’s dreamers and dropouts ‘lie flat’ in Dali

    Cheap, remote and beautiful city attracts thousands of young people and Gen X-ers escaping economic treadmill

    A man with a bike watches a woman on a scooter whose face is obscured by a large yellow and white balloon
  • Saturday, 16 December, 2023
    ObituaryGao Yaojie
    Gao Yaojie, Chinese doctor and Aids activist, 1927-2023

    The gynaecologist fought for victims of the HIV epidemic spurred by Henan province’s rapacious ‘blood economy’

    Gao Yaojie was motivated by the human tragedies she witnessed in Henan’s villages and by a deep mistrust of officialdom born of the hardships she suffered during the Cultural Revolution
  • Sunday, 10 December, 2023
    Millions drop out of China’s state health insurance system

    Rising premiums drive cash-strapped families to cancel coverage, fuelling fears about economic slowdown

    Commuters walk near a temple in Beijing
  • Thursday, 7 December, 2023
    FT Magazine
    He blew the whistle on Amazon. He’s still paying the price

    Four years after Tang Mingfang called out the injustices he witnessed at a Foxconn factory in China, nothing has changed — except for him

    Tang Mingfang
  • Sunday, 3 December, 2023
    Chinese economy
    Chinese borrowers default in record numbers as economic crisis deepens

    More than 8mn people are blacklisted by authorities after missed payments on mortgages and business loans

    A man wears a protective mask as he walks by the skyline of Beijing’s central business district
  • Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
    The human cost of China’s property crisis

    One of the world’s biggest real estate collapses has hurt buyers, households and families across the country

    Skylines of Chinese cities
  • Monday, 27 November, 2023
    Visual investigation
    How China is tearing down Islam

    Thousands of mosques have been altered or destroyed as Beijing’s suppression of Islamic culture spreads

  • Friday, 24 November, 2023
    Friendly foreign influencers win growing following in China

    New report finds social media stars speaking up for Beijing against critical overseas narratives

    Montage shows three foreign social media influencers
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