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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Why China Wants Trump to Win
Four more years might present tantalizing opportunities for Beijing to expand its influence around East Asia and the world.
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Anthony Wallace / AFP / Getty Hong Kong Is a Colony Once More
With a far-reaching national-security law, overlords in a distant capital are again making decisions on the city’s behalf.
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Marly Gallardo The Leader Who Killed Her City
Carrie Lam has been a unique failure. Yet she is merely a symptom of Hong Kong’s ills.
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Shutterstock; Paul Spella / The Atlantic Don’t Believe the China Hype
When it comes to assessing Chinese power, things aren’t always as they seem.
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Corbis Historical / Getty China Has Dominated the West Before
As China comes into greater conflict with the West, now is a good time to consider the long arc of the relationship.
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Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic How China Is Planning to Win Back the World
As its global image takes a big hit, the Chinese Communist Party is using an arsenal of spin, obfuscation, hyperbole, and outright disinformation to win back its reputation.
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Drop of Light / Shutterstock / Paul Spella … How Should Biden Handle China?
Look to Europe for lessons.
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Paul Yeung / Bloomberg / Getty The End of Hong Kong
China has moved to take away the city’s autonomy, one of several aggressive actions by Beijing across the region.
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Lam Yik Fei / The New York Times … Hong Kong’s Revolutionary Anthem Is a Challenge to China
The city’s residents are forging a “sense of country,” which will serve to undermine Beijing’s notion of patriotism.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Pandemic’s Geopolitical Aftershocks Are Coming
Western capitals aren’t just worried about the risk of a resurgence in coronavirus cases.
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Ulet Ifansasti / Getty Images Is This Taiwan’s Moment?
Countries “are not backing down in the face of Chinese pressure” over the island, its foreign minister says.
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Xinhua / Getty Images The Countries Taking Advantage of Antarctica During the Pandemic
While the West has scaled back operations in the Antarctic, Russia and China have pushed ahead.
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Dale De La Rey / Getty How Hong Kong Did It
With the government flailing, the city’s citizens decided to organize their own coronavirus response.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic China’s Bargain on Global Influence Is Paying Off
The U.S. gives more money than China to many international organizations. So why do they seem more sympathetic to Beijing?
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TR / AFP / Getty Can the West Actually Ditch China?
How severely can countries really punish China when many of them need Beijing for the most crucial of things—medical supplies?
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The Atlantic Indians Aren’t Buying China’s Narrative
For a majority of Indians, Beijing isn’t part of the solution to the pandemic, but the problem.
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Lintao Zhang / AP The Utter Futility of Biden’s China Rhetoric
The Democratic candidate tries to out-hawk Trump, but trying to beat Republicans at their own game is pointless—even dangerous.
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Karan Singh How China Sees the World
And how we should see China
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Jonathan Ernst/Reuters The WHO Shouldn’t Be a Plaything for Great Powers
Trump’s defunding ploy will only make the organization’s problems worse.
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Max-o-matic For China, the ‘USA Virus’ Is a Geopolitical Ploy
In a new era of tinfoil-hat diplomacy, official sources are legitimizing conspiracy theories from the internet.
