China
Explore our coverage of China’s politics, economics, business and culture, in articles, charts, podcasts and video
Business
China is overhauling its company law
Its leaders want to make business less volatile—and easier to control
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China develops a divorced dating scene
Older Chinese looking to remarry face revealing obstacles
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China is now the world leader in coffee shops
But the average Chinese person still guzzles much less than a typical American
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How China views the popular uprising in Bangladesh
The government is quiet. Others blame America
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One way to turbocharge the Chinese economy
Why won’t the government give farmers more freedom to sell their homes?
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China’s new plan for tracking people online
Is a digital-ID proposal meant to protect consumers or the Communist Party?
Finance & economics
How Chinese shoppers downgraded their ambition
The trend will dismay the country’s policymakers
Drum Tower
Why Chinese consumers are turning their backs on American fast-food chains
Our weekly podcast on China. This week: what changing tastes in China reveal about the country’s attitude to the outside world
Asia
America remains Asia’s military-exercise partner of choice
A new report shows just how far China is falling behind
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Which Olympic sports is China good at?
The country’s athletes seem to prefer competing indoors and as individuals
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To revive the economy, China wants consumers to buy better stuff
It is offering them money to do so
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When China hides disasters in a memory hole
A revealing attempt to forget a terrible plane crash
Culture
A moving memoir probes the contradictions of modern China
Edward Wong narrates his father’s journey from servant of the party to escapee
Leaders
Chinese companies are winning the global south
Their expansion abroad holds important lessons for Western incumbents