Category: China Economy
Chaguan – China’s half-loving, half-threatening pitch to Taiwan doesn’t work | China
Oct 22nd 2020CHINA’S COMMUNIST PARTY is not known for bumper sticker [...]
The 1.4bn-people question – Apparatchiks and academics alike struggle to take China’s pulse | China
AMONG THOSE arrested after the nationwide pro-democracy protests of [...]
A big splash – In a world mired in recession, China manages a V-shaped recovery | China
Oct 24th 2020ONE SCENE more than any other from China’s coronavirus [...]
Orphaned by the state – How Xinjiang’s gulag tears families apart | China
Oct 17th 2020FOR ZUMRAT DAWUT’s three children, Fridays were terrify [...]
Chaguan – China calls its “heroic” handling of covid-19 proof of its wisdom | China
A lopsided global recovery amid Chinese bragging could sharpen divis [...]
Slow strangulation – Hong Kong’s new security law is being applied sparingly, so far | China
REMINDERS OF HONG KONG’s draconian new security law are everywhere. [...]
Rune revival – Pictographs survive in a Chinese tourist town | China
DURING THE “golden week” national holiday that began on October 1st, [...]
On Harmony Road – To put idle land to use, Chinese officials want to erase many villages | China
THERE IS A surprising amount of earth-moving equipment on the otherw [...]
The peddle betel battle – A risky stimulant thrives in China’s capital of chewing | China
BETEL NUTS assail the nostrils before they thrill the tongue. At a s [...]
Chaguan – China is celebrating 70 years since it entered the Korean war | China
Oct 3rd 2020AN OPTIMIST MIGHT call it progress that China’s national [...]