China

Explore our coverage of China’s politics, economics, business and culture, in articles, charts, podcasts and video


Business

Should the world fear China’s chipmaking binge?

Concerns that cheap Chinese semiconductors will flood the market may be premature

Business

Chinese fast-food insurgents are beating McDonald’s and KFC

The healthy appetite comes from smaller cities

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China unites America and Europe in alarm

But they don’t agree on the solution

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Changes to China’s gaokao exam are about politics, not fairness

Extra points for minority students are going away

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Watch out Beijing, China’s second-tier cities are on the up

Eight great ones embody growth, optimism and the good life?

Asia

How the Philippines is turning the water-cannon on China

Ferdinand Marcos’s flip is a huge gift to America. But dangers lie ahead

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It’s a bird, it’s a plane…it’s a Chinese flying car

China is developing the vehicles faster than any other country

Finance and economics

Why global GDP might be $7trn bigger than everyone thought

The discovery has perturbed Chinese officials

Asia

Will India’s new government turbocharge the fight against poverty?

India and China have taken very different approaches to the problem

Finance and economics

China’s economic model retains a dangerous allure

Despite the country’s current struggles, autocrats elsewhere see a lot to admire

Graphic detail

Hong Kong smothers dissent ahead of the Tiananmen anniversary

Data show the extent to which repression has grown

The Americas

Canada’s jade mines boomed on Chinese demand. Now that’s over

Local indigenous groups are happy that jade mines will no longer scar their lands

Asia

Some Taiwanese worry that their lawmakers may sell them out to China

They are protesting against the legislature awarding itself greater powers

Asia

Want to stop a third world war? Pick up the phone

America’s and China’s defence ministers will meet in Singapore. They need to talk more

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The evolution of forced labour in Xinjiang

China has wound down its re-education camps, but is still using work to remould the thinking of Uyghurs

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Has China reached peak emissions?

It hopes to de-link its carbon emissions from economic growth

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