Liu Jingyao, a college student, describes what it’s like to be slut-shamed by 800 million people.
A visual take on the vast expanse of a land and its people, compiled over 10 years by Wang Xiaoshuai.
Rising bond defaults raise new questions about whether Beijing can effectively address its huge debt problem.
Trump’s trade adviser invokes his anti-China alter ego to influence the trade debate.
The presidential candidates need to stop demurring and fully reject Trump’s approach.
In its annual survey, the Committee to Protect Journalists found that at least 250 journalists are imprisoned around the world, largely by authoritarian leaders.
While many American officials are eager to avoid the new tariffs, the president could go either way.
Secret speeches and leaked government documents reveal how China carried out the internment of as many as a million people.
Secret speeches and leaked government documents reveal how China carried out the internment of as many as a million people.
America should be leading the way on clean energy, not falling behind.
The diplomat, Anna Lindstedt, is accused of arranging unauthorized talks between the daughter of a detained bookseller and two men representing Chinese interests.
Chinese officials have released social media videos, blistering editorials and attacks on researchers in a push to counter evidence of its Muslim internment drive.
A last-minute booking, a furtive cab ride and a spy in the window. How our correspondent found a crack in China’s surveillance state — and a woman on her deathbed in Xinjiang.
Military officials are trying to develop systems that instantly push intelligence to front-line forces, a development strategists say could help deter aggression by Russia and China.
Risk years of imprisonment or flee? We traced the journey along a covert pipeline helping Hong Kong protesters escape to Taiwan.
Throngs of people poured into Hong Kong’s major thoroughfares for an authorized march meant to coincide with the United Nations’ Human Rights Day.
Asiye Abdulaheb said she had helped spread documents exposing China’s detentions of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang.
He manipulated Laolao and stole her life savings. Why does she remember him so fondly?
It’s time for pension funds and others to stop supporting companies that abet Beijing’s crackdowns on China’s Uighurs and Hong Kong’s protesters.
It’s time for pension funds and others to stop supporting companies that abet Beijing’s crackdowns on China’s Uighurs and Hong Kong’s protesters.
The commission took aim last month at the Chinese tech giant’s sales to telecom carriers in rural America.
Scientists are raising questions about the ethics of studies backed by Chinese surveillance agencies. Prestigious journals are taking action.
The alliance might not be suffering “brain death” but it faces new technologies, new rivals, new weapons and a changing America.
In a series of moves and comments, the president has stirred new turmoil into financial markets and the global economy.
Tourism is one of the few remaining sources of hard currency for Kim Jong-un’s government. He has embarked on a push for more foreign visitors.
The president said he was in no rush to complete a deal, injecting further uncertainty into a dispute that has rocked global markets.
The Massachusetts-based translator has done more than anyone to bridge the gap between Chinese science fiction and American readers.
For travelers who first consider dinner reservations and pastry stops when planning a trip, select cookbooks celebrating the cuisine of a city or country can also serve as guidebooks.
Beijing’s pursuit of control over a Muslim ethnic group pushes the rules of science and raises questions about consent.
From the Bay Area to New Delhi, explore air pollution around the world.
In 2019, what had begun as a trade war rapidly developed into a cluster of conflicts.
On the first anniversary of her arrest, Meng Wanzhou wrote a public letter describing her life in Vancouver, where she is living in a seven-bedroom mansion.
Beijing said it would suspend visits to Hong Kong by American warships and impose sanctions on several nongovernmental groups. The measures suggest China is wary of upsetting trade negotiations.
So it is attacking democracy on the island from within.
Yang Hengjun has been shackled, cut off from all contact with his family and interrogated daily to make him confess to being a spy, his representatives said.
After years of American pressure, China is taking steps to shut off the illicit supply of deadly synthetic opioids. But don’t expect an end to the overdoses.
Important: Always know when you’re “the girl.”
This talk of Australia this week was China, after revelations that a businessman said Chinese agents sought to implant him in Parliament and other espionage allegations raised questions about foreign interference.
Legislation signed by Trump poses a direct challenge to Beijing’s rule, but trade and the softening Chinese economy present bigger problems.
In taking the time to get to know his subjects, Andy Cohen paints a compelling portrait of those suffering from a public health crisis.
The video app said it would review its policies after a 17-year-old in New Jersey who discussed Chinese detention camps was locked out of her account.
The measure, which could lead to sanctions on Chinese officials for cracking down on the protesters, drew bipartisan support from Congress.
Mysterious 609-million-year-old balls of cells may be the oldest animal embryos — or something else entirely.
When the 35-year-old performer and model collapsed with an apparent heart attack during filming for a strenuous, stunt-filled series, it set off a wave of anger on Chinese social media.
By the time the 2022 Olympics roll around, China hopes it will have 300 million new skiers. Can they do it? If the packed slopes near Beijing are any indication, the outlook is promising.
I look at Hong Kong and wonder whether this is what the end of the world feels like.
The U.S.-China divide isn’t just about trade.
The app faced renewed questions about whether it censors material after it removed an American’s video about Muslims in China.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo did not explicitly endorse legislation to support pro-democracy activists from Chinese-backed crackdowns, but noted standards that Beijing should heed.
Since the big loss for the pro-Beijing camp, Chinese state media has resorted to a favorite tactic by blaming the United States, a nationalistic message that plays well to the masses at home.
The executives were detained as officials look into accusations that the company’s workers intervened in Taiwan’s looming national election campaign.
The $11.2 billion raised is the territory’s largest fund-raising since 2010, showing investor enthusiasm despite worsening demonstrations.
The Chinese e-commerce giant raised $11.2 billion, the territory’s biggest tally since 2010, showing investor enthusiasm despite worsening demonstrations.
Citizens voted overwhelmingly for pro-democracy candidates. It was a clear signal to Beijing that the protests are not a foreign plot.
Democracy supporters were emboldened by capturing most of the seats in local elections, but Beijing and its allies are reluctant to compromise.
Experts are divided over whether flooding the Asian market with convincing artificial rhino horn would help or hurt rhinos’ survival.
Many thriller and horror films from Japan, China and South Korea reveal a complicated relationship between those societies and the ancient tenets of Confucianism.
How a minor race became a major rebuke of the government — and the people’s endorsement of the protests.
A surge in voting, especially by young people, allowed democracy advocates to win many more seats on local councils.
More disclosures reveal the full impact of the government’s repression of ethnic minorities — well beyond re-education camps.
A secret document reflects leaders’ struggle to manage Xinjiang sites swelling with Muslim detainees.
Escalating rhetoric reveals how seriously Beijing views the unrest in Hong Kong.
Fiona Hill’s warnings challenge Trump to keep America safe from Moscow’s efforts to destabilize democracy and snare influence around the globe.
Fiona Hill’s warnings challenge Trump to keep America safe from Moscow’s efforts to destabilize democracy and snare influence around the globe.
The citywide district council election, normally a quiet, local affair, is seen as a referendum on the demonstrations.
When a new mayor of the Czech capital refused to toe the line on Taiwan, Beijing severed its sister-city relationship. Broader repercussions followed.
The claims by an asylum seeker in Australia couldn’t be independently verified, but Western officials are treating them seriously.
Jerry Chun Shing Lee, who pleaded guilty to conspiring with Chinese intelligence agents, received a lengthy sentence in a case built on circumstantial evidence and many unknowns.
The ruling came just days before a vote that is being seen as a referendum on the protest movement in the semiautonomous territory.
Urban unrest has reshaped Sunday’s elections even in the most rural parts of the territory.
For years, Chinese e-cigarette makers had free rein to operate without regard to consumer safety. But new rules are set to change that.
Whether or not a trade truce is reached, the two countries have been pushed further apart, the former Treasury secretary said.
China’s legislative body criticized a court ruling overturning a ban on wearing masks, signaling that it was the final arbiter of law in Hong Kong.
Explore the settings where villains lurk, heroes meander and jaws drop.
Simon Cheng spoke out publicly for the first time since he was detained in early August at the end of a business trip from Hong Kong to mainland China.
An upcoming exhibition at a Beijing arts center was canceled, the latest sign of how China’s turn toward a more hard-nosed authoritarianism has crept into civil society.
An upcoming exhibition at a Beijing arts center was canceled, the latest sign of how China’s turn toward a more hard-nosed authoritarianism has crept into civil society.
The Chinese Communist Party is devouring its own and cutting itself off from reality.
Más de cuatrocientas páginas de documentos internos revelan cómo comenzó el programa de reclusión, cómo se justificó y el modo en que algunos funcionarios lo resistieron.
The parents of young people under siege at a university emerged as a call for compromise.
The planned stops on the 52 Places Traveler’s trip around the world included a mainland China ski area, and the vibrant former British colony. Neither was quite as expected.
Communist leaders engage in modern-day totalitarian brainwashing, bizarre lies and industrial-level indoctrination to suppress Muslims.
The president’s unpredictability and ongoing demands of China are complicating an end to the long-running dispute, experts say.
The Foreign Ministry said an article based on government records had smeared China’s war on terrorism, but did not dispute the documents’ authenticity.
Alex Zhu, the head of the Chinese-owned viral video app, is trying to assuage Washington’s fears. “I am quite optimistic,” he said.
Don’t count on it.
Something is stopping us from creating the families we claim to desire. But what?
Hundreds of pages of internal papers offer new insight into how the program began, how it was justified even as the damage it caused was clear, and how some officials resisted it.
This document, part of 403 pages obtained by The New York Times, tells Chinese officials in Xinjiang how to explain the disappearance of parents and families detained in camps built to hold Muslim minorities. Anguished students asking about their parents were told they had nothing to worry about.
More than 400 pages of internal Chinese documents provide an unprecedented inside look at the crackdown on ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang region.
The Trump administration is set to extend a license that will allow American companies to continue doing business with the Chinese telecom giant Huawei.
Months of antigovernment protests and increasingly violent clashes with the police have upended daily life, with the potential to alter the city’s character.
The engines of China’s growth continue to sputter, and the threat of further U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods could yet make the problem worse.
Cars changed the way we move. They also led to toxic levels of air pollution in many cities. Now, under pressure from their citizens, city officials are experimenting with new ways to reimagine the role of cars.