Chinese Communist Party Structure

Former aide to 2 New York governors is charged with being an agent of the Chinese government

Xi takes off the mask

Xi Jinping’s recent European tour was an unprecedented spectacle in international affairs: an Asian leader was arriving as representative of a great power to lesser...

Chinese court sentences Australian Yang Hengjun to death

It follows years of arbitrary detention and a closed trial and it is not evidence of any wrongdoing but really of Beijing’s corrupt and opaque...

China has a sweeping vision to reshape the world — and countries are listening

Xi Jinping has a plan for how the world should work, and one year into his norm-shattering third term as Chinese leader, he’s escalating his...

Chinese propaganda slogans turn London street art wall into a protest site against Beijing

China’s Solution to Inequality? Cracking Down on Displays of Wealth and Poverty

It’s not just displays of wealth that Beijing wants to make disappear. Content about the lives of people living in poverty has also been subjected...

One in 5 young people in Chinese cities are out of work. Beijing wants them to work in the fields

The youth unemployment rate could increase further, as a record number of 11.6 million college students are set to graduate this year and seek jobs...

China’s authorities are quietly rounding up people who protested against COVID rules

“If we are arrested for expressing our sympathy, then how much space do our opinions have in this society?” the editor remembered thinking at the...