投稿者: Amy Hawkins Senior China correspondent
Beijing will defend its core interests, but its initial response is more cautious than when Trump imposed levies in 2018Moments after Donald Trump introduced tariffs of 10% on Chinese goods, Beijing retaliated with countermeasures.China’s finance minis…
World leaders also reportedly discussed Taiwan and fentanyl in first direct contact since 2021China’s president, Xi Jinping, has spoken to the US president-elect, Donald Trump, on the phone in the first direct contact between the two men since 2021.Day…
‘Teacher Li’ is among the most prolific sources of unfiltered information from behind China’s Great Firewall. But an attempt to monetise it has proven controversialOn Monday, two parallel visions of Chinese activism appeared on X. One was a video showi…
Mizo Games wants players to have a chance to ‘experience war on the tabletop before it reaches us’As families in Taiwan prepare to gather for lunar new year celebrations in January, a game that will be released that month promises to offer some war-the…
While some residents take to building houses in trees, officials recognise need for national response to climate disastersEvery summer, Dongting Hu, China’s second-largest freshwater lake, swells in size as flood water from the Yangtze River flows into…
As stores that were spaces for open discussion have been forced to close, new ventures spring up overseasOn 24 November, exactly two years after a fire in an apartment building in Xinjiang killed 10 people and sparked a wave of historic protests across…
The buzzword – which went viral after a student was filmed working on his laptop while riding his bicycle – reflects a mix of competitiveness and hopelessness amid China’s slowing economyOn the Chinese internet, the country’s current predicament – slow…
Chinese president calls for city to ‘focus on cultivating new industries’ as he attends inauguration of new leaderChina’s president, Xi Jinping, has urged the gambling hub of Macau to diversify away from casinos, as he addressed the Chinese territory a…
Stabbings and car rammings raise fears that China’s strained social safety net is leading to growing violenceChina is grappling with a spate of violent rampages that have left dozens of people dead, sparking a conversation about whether “revenge agains…
Case marks first time a trans person has successfully challenged use of such conversion practices in countryA transgender woman in China has won a record amount of compensation from a hospital that subjected her to several sessions of electroshock conv…
The historical series, Time in the Northwest, chronicles the life of Xi Zhongxun from peasant roots to Communist revolutionary in ChinaXi Jinping’s father is the subject of a rousing new historical drama that premiered on Chinese state television on Tu…
Investors disappointed after hoped-for policy plans by Beijing to stimulate economy did not materialiseBusiness live – latest updatesChinese stocks have suffered their worst fall in 27 years after efforts by Beijing to stimulate the world’s second-larg…
After video of incident causes online outrage, airline says girl was taken to lavatory with grandmother’s consentTwo women in China have been accused of child abuse after they separated a crying toddler from her grandmother and locked her in the toilet…
Beijing is believed to be behind court bid to secure account of life inside Communist HQIn the early hours of 4 June 1989, Li Rui, a veteran of the Chinese Communist party (CCP), was standing on the balcony of his apartment on Chang’an Boulevard in cen…
Beijing court rejects lawsuit brought by Xu Zaozao, who was seeking to widen access to fertility treatment in ChinaA Chinese woman who filed a groundbreaking lawsuit to win the right to freeze her eggs has lost her final appeal, exhausting the legal av…