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  • Tuesday, 20 April, 2021
    Chinese politics & policy
    Chinese censors take aim at former premier Wen Jiabao’s essay

    Dissidents say tribute to Wen’s mother could be interpreted as criticism of Xi Jinping

  • Friday, 16 April, 2021
    China ready for shot at snooker glory as it pushes to dominate sport

    Big matches in world championship that begins this weekend will be followed by rapt audiences

  • Thursday, 15 April, 2021
    News in-depthHong Kong politics
    China’s crackdown reaches Hong Kong classrooms: ‘It feels like there is a noose over my head’

    New national security curriculum for schools raises censorship fears among teachers and parents

  • Monday, 5 April, 2021
    News in-depth
    China stand-up comics find authorities no longer get the joke

    Performers increasingly draw ire of officials and socially conservative commentators

  • Saturday, 27 March, 2021
    Chinese politics & policy
    Beijing targets British MPs for ‘gross interference’ over Xinjiang

    China imposes sanctions and warns criticism of internment camps threatens to undermine relations

  • Sunday, 7 March, 2021
    Hong Kong politics
    China turns its back on Hong Kong loyalists

    Beijing is putting its faith in its own mainland officials as it clamps down on the territory

  • Tuesday, 2 March, 2021
    Jamil Anderlini
    Jack Ma personifies the contradiction of China’s ideology

    The Communist party system needs entrepreneurs but curtails anyone who becomes too powerful

  • Thursday, 25 February, 2021
    Chinese politics & policy
    Xi asserts success of China’s anti-poverty drive to cement his status

    President extols personal role in effort to burnish his credentials as epoch-defining leader

  • Saturday, 13 February, 2021
    Media
    China’s box office roars while Hollywood remains on mute

    Pandemic underscores diverging fortunes of the world’s two biggest film markets

  • Promoted Content
  • Tuesday, 9 February, 2021
    ReviewHistory books
    Truth and daring in retelling Mao’s China

    Yang Jisheng’s formidable investigation of the Cultural Revolution is a work of breathtaking courage

  • Tuesday, 9 February, 2021
    Number of registered newborns in China drops 15% in 2020

    Steep decline highlights demographic challenges facing the country

  • Monday, 8 February, 2021
    Chinese politics & policy
    Beijing charges Australian journalist with leaking state secrets

    Cheng Lei worked for Chinese state television and had been held in secret for six months

  • Sunday, 7 February, 2021
    Technology sector
    Chinese users flock to Clubhouse app to debate Xinjiang and Taiwan

    Netizens pay for access to invite-only platform to chat about sensitive topics away from censors

  • Friday, 5 February, 2021
    Chinese employment
    Chinese bosses push staff to work through new year festivities

    Companies offer bonuses in bid to meet booming global demand

  • Thursday, 4 February, 2021
    Hong Kong politics
    Hong Kong to impose ‘national security’ schools curriculum

    Overhaul shows China’s crackdown has reached beyond jailing opposition leaders to reforming Hong Kong society

  • Friday, 29 January, 2021
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Covid travel restraints disrupt China’s new year festival

    Billions of trips normally made home to celebrate holiday but Beijing worried about outbreaks

  • Saturday, 16 January, 2021
    US-China relations
    US imposes sanctions on Chinese officials over Hong Kong crackdown

    Trump administration ratchets up pressure on Beijing in its final days

  • Wednesday, 13 January, 2021
    Coronavirus pandemic
    China imposes tough new curbs on 23m people after Covid outbreak

    Beijing limits travel and conducts mass testing in harshest measures since start of pandemic

  • Monday, 4 January, 2021
    News in-depthChinese politics & policy
    China’s secret prisons in spotlight over Canadians held since 2018

    Use of foreigners as political tools increasing under Xi Jinping, say campaigners

  • Monday, 28 December, 2020
    Chinese politics & policy
    Chinese citizen journalist jailed after accusing officials of Covid cover-up

    Zhang Zhan sentenced to 4 years as Beijing reasserts official narrative of outbreak handling

  • Monday, 28 December, 2020
    Hong Kong politics
    Protest granny ‘prepared to die’ for Hong Kong’s freedoms

    Alexandra Wong, known for waving union jack at 2019 protests, returns after arrest in mainland China

  • Wednesday, 9 December, 2020
    Xinjiang
    Xinjiang data platform deems people suspicious by association

    Phoning relatives abroad or reading the Koran risks detention in the western Chinese region

  • Tuesday, 8 December, 2020
    Chinese politics & policy
    The provocateur driving China’s ‘wolf warrior’ pack

    Zhao Lijian is at the forefront of Beijing’s combative campaign against criticism

  • Thursday, 3 December, 2020
    Sexual misconduct allegations
    China #MeToo trial grinds to a halt after accused fails to turn up

    Zhou Xiaoxuan says she wants her case to set an example for other sexual harassment lawsuits

  • Friday, 27 November, 2020
    Chinese politics & policy
    The ‘bloodsucking capitalist’ being lauded by Communist China

    Entrepreneurs urged to follow Zhang Jian’s example after Jack Ma’s fall from grace

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