People's Republic of China - The Atlantic

People's Republic of China

What’s So Hard to Understand About What Trump Has Said?

Quinta Jurecic and Benjamin Wittes

April 21, 2020

Coronavirus: COVID-19

Indians Aren’t Buying China’s Narrative

April 21, 2020

An illustration of a sun with three arrows pointing at three yellow stars.

The Utter Futility of Biden’s China Rhetoric

April 20, 2020

How China Sees the World

The WHO Shouldn’t Be a Plaything for Great Powers

April 16, 2020

The WHO Defunding Move Isn’t What It Seems

April 15, 2020

Coronavirus: COVID-19

How China Deceived the WHO

April 12, 2020

Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

For China, the ‘USA Virus’ Is a Geopolitical Ploy

April 11, 2020

An illustration of Chinese nationals with a sign spelling out "VIRU.S." behind them.

The Case Against Wet Markets

April 10, 2020

Consider the Possibility That Trump Is Right About China

April 5, 2020

A masked man on a scooter in front of a portrait of Xi Jinping

Chinese Americans Have Seen This Before

April 3, 2020

Why the U.S. Will Outcompete China

Matthew Kroenig

April 3, 2020

Donald Trump and Xi Jinping

The Problem With China’s Victory Lap

March 28, 2020

A large monitor shows an image of Chinese president Xi Jinping wearing a mask in an empty station.

Trump’s Break With China Has Deadly Consequences

March 28, 2020

Get Used to It: This Lockdown Won’t Be the Last

Timothy McLaughlin

March 28, 2020

An official wearing protective gear stands guard outside an entrance to the Hong Mei House residential building at Cheung Hong Estate in the Tsing Yi district, on February 11, 2020 in Hong Kong, China

The Coronavirus Is Demonstrating the Value of Globalization

March 27, 2020

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, U.S. President Donald Trump, and others at the United Nations.

The Modern Supply Chain Is Snapping

March 19, 2020

Face-mask manufacturing in Istanbul, Turkey

China Is Avoiding Blame by Trolling the World

March 19, 2020

Xi Jinping at the School of Medicine at Tsinghua University in Beijing

2020 Time Capsule #5: The ‘Chinese Virus’

March 18, 2020

What It’s Like to Be a Leftover Woman

March 12, 2020

Closeup of Gai Qi, one of the women in the documentary, wearing a red dress against a pink backdrop.

China Hawks Are Calling the Coronavirus a ‘Wake-Up Call’

March 11, 2020

A magazine with a picture of President Donald Trump sits on top of other magazines and newspapers.

Educational Institutions Should Engage More—Not Less—With China

February 25, 2020

Democracies Are Better at Fighting Outbreaks

Ariana A. Berengaut

February 24, 2020

Sanitation workers disinfect a residential compound in China.

How the Coronavirus Revealed Authoritarianism’s Fatal Flaw

February 22, 2020

People wearing masks walk past a portrait of Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Coronavirus Is Devastating Chinese Tourism

Timothy McLaughlin

February 19, 2020

A family wearing face masks buys food from a stall in Yangon, Myanmar.

China’s Chernobyl Never Seems to Arise

February 17, 2020

Medical personnel are transported by People's Liberation Army aircraft.

America Is Alone in Its Cold War With China

February 17, 2020

An image of Boris Johnson set against a red and blue background with yellow and white stars.

China Wants Food. Brazil Pays the Price.

Melissa Chan and Heriberto Araújo

February 15, 2020

A person stands in a burning forest.

The Neglected Consequences of Foot-Binding

Antonia Malchik

February 14, 2020

Feet distorted by foot-binding

The Coronavirus Is a Data Time Bomb

Alexis C. Madrigal

February 13, 2020

Ships carrying freight

America’s Hopelessly Anemic Response to One of the Largest Personal-Data Breaches Ever

Robert D. Williams

February 12, 2020

The Justice Department unveils charges against four members of China’s People’s Liberation Army for hacking into the credit-reporting agency Equifax.

The Divides That Make Hong Kong and West Berlin

Jeffrey Wasserstrom

February 8, 2020

A large group of people wave Chinese flags.

Democracy Drives Labor in a Hyper-Capitalist City

Timothy McLaughlin

February 6, 2020

Medical workers in Hong Kong protest with red and white signs that say "Save HK now."

Britain and America Have a China Problem

January 30, 2020

Mike Pompeo and Dominic Raab walk side by side.

The Responsibility to Counter China’s Ambitions Falls to Us

January 26, 2020

An image of two pandas fighting over a globe is superimposed onto a Chinese flag.

A Historic Quarantine

January 24, 2020