投稿者: Amy Hawkins in Beijing
In 2015, a nationwide campaign rounded up hundreds of rights advocates. Since then, suppression has become more systematic and less visible, lawyers sayA decade on from China’s biggest crackdown on human rights lawyers in modern history, lawyers and ac…
Amy Hawkins visits one of the many bars popping up across Chinese cities offering drinks, snacks and a vision of the futureIn the age of self-help, self-improvement and self-obsession, there have never been more places to look to for guidance. Where th…
Growing popularity of mysticism can also be connected to increasing sense of cultural confidence as Chinese brands and products go globalPass my exams. Meet Mr Right. Get rich. Pinned to a board by the entrance of a dimly lit fortune telling bar in Fen…
Between January and May, China added 198 GW of solar and 46 GW of wind, enough to generate as much electricity as Indonesia or TurkeyChina’s installations of wind and solar in May are enough to generate as much electricity as Poland, as the world’s sec…
New report estimates that China now has at least 600 nuclear warheads, with around 100 per year being added to the stockpile since 2023China is growing its stockpile of nuclear warheads at a faster rate than any other country, according to newly publis…
Across the US, hundreds of thousands of Chinese students are now uncertain about their academic future and some are considering moving awayChinese students in the United States are questioning their future in the country after the state department anno…
As a child, Wang Tao was inspired by the American film The Wrestler, starring Mickey Rourke. Now 25, he is China’s poster boy for the sportRising from the ground with 73kg of writhing muscle on his shoulders, Wang Tao grimaced. The man whose legs were …
Tens of millions of internet users in China’s Henan denied access to five times more websites than usualChina’s authorities appear to have implemented an enhanced version of the country’s internet censorship regime in the central province of Henan, sub…
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed up to Xi Jinping’s vision of a multi-polar world, as Beijing expands its influence in Latin AmericaFew world leaders can say they’ve been hugged by Xi Jinping, China’s typically reserved president. Last year, an emb…
More than a decade after China passed a groundbreaking mental health law, victims and activists say that involuntary hospitalisation remains commonZhang Po was barely one year out of school when an out of control mine-cart barrelled into him deep in a …
Crowning of country’s first world champion set to give fresh boost to sport that has boomed in popularity in ChinaChain smoking under the fluorescent lights of a cavernous billiards hall in Beijing, Brother Yuan can’t stop smiling. The previous day, al…
In joint statement, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin accuse ‘certain countries’ of trying to ‘tamper with the results of the victory of the second world war’ China and Russia pledged to further deepen their already “no limits” partnership in a joint state…
China’s vice-premier He Lifeng will meet US treasury secretary Scott Bessent in Switzerland between 9 and 12 MayChina has vowed to “safeguard international fairness and justice” in upcoming talks with the United States in Switzerland, the first meeting…
Arrests are the first case of the city’s national security law being used to target the relatives of pro-democracy campaignersHuman rights groups have condemned the arrest of relatives of Anna Kwok, an exiled pro-democracy activist who is wanted by the…
The moves that barred the media mogul’s choice of lawyer are immune from legal challenge, giving the national security committee what one expert called ‘the powers of a police state’The dwindling freedom in Hong Kong over the past few years has been de…