China
Explore our coverage of China’s politics, economics, business and culture, in articles, charts, podcasts and video
Business
Congress tells China: sell TikTok or we’ll ban it
Only America’s courts can save the video app now
Finance and economics
Why a stronger dollar is dangerous
It sets the stage for a nasty new Trump-China clash, among other things
China
How Chinese networks clean dirty money on a vast scale
These shadowy “banks” are becoming the financiers of choice for transnational criminal gangs
By Invitation
Desmond Shum on how Xi Jinping beat down China’s red aristocrats
It took one of their own to do it, says the businessman and author
China
The dark side of growing old
A coming wave of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia will test China to its limits
China
Examining the fluff that frustrates northern China
An effort to improve the environment has had unintended consequences
China
China is talking to Taiwan’s next leader, just not directly
Officials in Beijing want the island’s new president to be more like one from the past
China
Why so many Chinese graduates cannot find work
Our number-crunching suggests that their plight could be much worse than previously thought
Asia
Tensions mount between China and the Philippines
The latest incident was just inside the “nine-dash line”
Europe
The German chancellor’s awkward meeting with China’s boss
It is time for Xi Jinping to accept that Germany isn’t America’s puppet
Leaders
America’s moves against Chinese biotech will hurt patients at home
The motives behind the BIOSECURE act are muddy
Finance and economics
Can the IMF solve the poor world’s debt crisis?
The fund will freeze out China if that is what it takes to offer relief
Finance and economics
China’s better economic growth hides reasons to worry
The country’s leaders are too complacent about deflation
Business
America hits Chinese biotech—and its own drugmakers
A sweeping bill in Congress could cost patients at home
Middle East and Africa
China’s fishing fleet is causing havoc off Africa’s coasts
The victims are non-Chinese crew members, local fishermen and marine life
