Asia Pacific May 31, 2023
China’s young people can’t find jobs. Xi Jinping says to ‘eat bitterness.’
A record 11.6 million college graduates in China are entering the workforce this year, and 1 in 5 young people are unemployed.
Asia Pacific Nov 30, 2022
Proud, scared and conflicted. What the China protesters told me.
After nearly three long years of COVID zero, which has turned into a political campaign for Chinese President Xi Jinping, China’s future looks increasingly bleak.
Business Nov 8, 2022
China’s business elite sees the country that let them thrive slipping away
China’s leader, Xi Jinping, used an important Communist Party congress last month to establish near-absolute power and make it clear that security would trump the economy.
Asia Pacific May 9, 2022
Has Shanghai been Xinjianged?
Shanghai and Xinjiang used to be two sides of the China coin; the former glamorous and thriving, the latter dark and repressed. Now both are subject to social control and surveillance.
Asia Pacific Apr 2, 2022
COVID, Russia and economy put the ‘China model’ to the test
On social media, a growing number of citizens are accusing the Communist Party of breaching its social contract with the people as China faces down numerous challenges.
Asia Pacific Mar 5, 2022
How China embraces Russian propaganda and its version of the war
In much of the world, Russia is losing the information war over Ukraine. In China, though, it’s winning big.
Asia Pacific Feb 10, 2022
China’s anti-graft show is educational, with unintended lessons
The state-produced documentary was meant to celebrate the success of Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign, but the series may have done the opposite.
Business Jan 9, 2022
As Beijing takes control, Chinese tech companies lose jobs and hope
The crackdown is killing the entrepreneurial drive that made China a tech power and destroying jobs that used to attract the country’s brightest.
World Dec 20, 2021
With its human rights record in question, China turns to an old friend
Perhaps no international organization has a more symbiotic relationship with Beijing than the IOC.
Asia Pacific Jul 10, 2021
China’s youth are embracing Mao's message
The chairman’s call for struggle and violence against capitalists is winning over a new audience of young people frustrated with long work hours and dwindling opportunities.