China
Explore our coverage of China’s politics, economics, business and culture, in articles, charts, podcasts and video
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Middle East & Africa
China’s relationship with Africa is growing murkier
A decline in capital flows does not necessarily signal disengagement
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Drum Tower
China’s cutthroat remarriage market
Our weekly podcast on China. This week: what the divorced dating scene reveals about the country
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Business
Pinduoduo, China’s e-commerce star, suffers a blow
It faces a slowing economy, stiffening competition and angry merchants
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Why Xi Jinping is envious of his predecessor
China’s ruler would like to grab Deng Xiaoping’s legacy
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Asia
Why Australia is not yet a critical minerals powerhouse
A string of lithium and nickel mines have closed this year
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Finance & economics
How Vladimir Putin hopes to transform Russian trade
He believes the country’s future lies with China and India. What could go wrong?
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Drum Tower
How China erases disasters from public memory
Our weekly podcast on China. This week, we examine the Chinese government’s revealing response to a deadly plane crash
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Britain
Britain’s unusual stance on Chinese electric vehicles
Unlike America or Europe, Britain is welcoming the cheap cars—for now
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China
In China’s “median city” people are surprisingly risk-averse
Our columnist travels there to ask ordinary people two mega-questions
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Why are VPNs getting slower in China?
The government seems increasingly uneasy about people leaping over the great firewall
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China
Time for China to get serious about its methane emissions
Officials mull a future of less coal and fewer cows—and don’t like it
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Millions of Chinese people play guandan. Is that good or bad?
The Communist Party is torn on the merits of the popular card game