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Li Gang Xinhua / eyevine / Redux The Jarring Reality Hong Kong’s Dissidents See From Jail
Prodemocracy activists in the city still have hope.
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The Atlantic Here’s How Russia and China Are Helping the U.S.
Beijing and Moscow are filling the vaccine gap that wealthy countries helped create.
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Isaac Lawrence / AFP Getty What the Hong Kong Protesters’ Trial Reveals About Beijing
In cracking down on dissent, the government has jailed many of Hong Kong’s loudest progressive voices.
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Getty / Adam Maida / The Atlantic The U.S. and China Finally Get Real With Each Other
The exchange in Alaska may have seemed like a debacle, but it was actually a necessary step to a more stable relationship between the two countries.
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Hkun Lat / Getty China Is the Myanmar Coup’s ‘Biggest Loser’
A relationship decades in the making is now in jeopardy.
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Charles Krupa / AP What the Fear of China Is Doing to American Science
A campaign against Chinese scientists threatens the openness that defines U.S. universities.
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Ben Shmulevitch The Chinese ‘Debt Trap’ Is a Myth
The narrative wrongfully portrays both Beijing and the developing countries it deals with.
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Xinhua News Agency / Getty / The Atlantic Why Are There No Biographies of Xi Jinping?
It is high time we have a better sense of what makes the autocratic, muscular-nationalist, order-obsessed strongman in charge of China tick.
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Ivan Abreu The Permanent Colony
Despite having a distinct language, identity, and culture, Hong Kong has never been in full control of its development and future.
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Lennard Kok China’s Leader Attacks His Greatest Threat
Xi Jinping hasn’t just cracked down on private business—he is targeting individual entrepreneurs themselves.
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GREG BAKER / AFP / Getty The Undoing of China’s Economic Miracle
The country’s paramount leader is turning away from reforms that helped it grow and develop. That will have consequences beyond its borders.
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Chan Long Hei / Bloomberg / Getty Eradicating a Democracy Movement
Mass arrests in Hong Kong show both the power of an organized opposition and the authorities’ fear of it.
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DENIS / REA / Redux The Risk of John Kerry Following His Own China Policy
Any progress on climate change will be lost if the frame is one of a grand bargain with Beijing.
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Paula Bronstein / Getty When You Live Next to an Autocracy
How does a country balance its values and its interests when it shares a border with China?
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Nik Wheeler / Corbis / Getty The World’s Most Important Body of Water
More than most, four men shaped the oft-cited “strategic tensions” over the South China Sea.
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Lam Yik Fei / The New York Times … An Ominous Milestone in Hong Kong’s Democratic Descent
Joshua Wong has been sentenced to more than a year in jail. Avenues for protest in the city are narrowing.
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Ullstein / AFP / Getty / The Atlantic The Nazi Inspiring China’s Communists
A decades-old legal argument used by Hitler has found support in Beijing.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Fraught Politics Facing Biden’s Foreign Policy
His presidency may be the establishment’s last best chance to demonstrate that liberal internationalism is a superior strategy to populist nationalism.
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Getty / Alicia Tatone How Xi Jinping Blew It
Public opinion toward China has darkened, and with Joe Biden set to become president, there is little prospect of Beijing fixing its mistake.
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Roy Liu / Bloomberg / Getty A Strong but Frustrated China Poses a Special Kind of Danger
Even as it has become more influential on the international stage, political and economic problems have festered at home.
