More disclosures reveal the full impact of the government’s repression of ethnic minorities — well beyond re-education camps. No more denying, no more dodging. The Chinese Communist Party can no longer hide its relentless campaign of mass internment against the ethnic minorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, or claim that the …
Thousands of Buddhists from all over the world made a pilgrimage this fall to a monastery high in India’s Himalayas. Orange-robed monks with shaved heads huddled cross-legged on the floor, as Tibetan opera singers in multicolored gowns teetered under the weight of giant silver headdresses. They carried fruit baskets as …
The country is growing fatter. But plans to tackle obesity remain a little thin IN 1926 WALTER MALLORY, a foreign-affairs expert who would go on to head the Council on Foreign Relations, dubbed China the “land of famine”. Nearly a century later, the country is grappling with the opposite problem. …
The street demonstrations in Hong Kong these past few months have been, in a way, a dramatic payoff in the political fight that Joshua Wong has been waging since childhood. The biggest protests in Hong Kong’s history, they are daily proof of a profound popular defiance against Beijing. But even as the …
The ashes of reformist Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang, purged for opposing using force to suppress student protests in 1989, have been buried in Beijing. The remains of Mr Zhao, who died in 2005, were interred along with those of his wife in a quiet ceremony. Mr Zhao, general secretary of …
What Xi Jinping and his top Communist Party deputies think of the U.S. president. Early this month, President Trump sent an SOS to China, asking its government to help him find dirt on his political opponents at home. “China should start an investigation” of the Biden family, he said on the White …
Hong Kong pro-democracy leader Joshua Wong had posted a photo with Thai opposition leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit. The Chinese embassy in Bangkok has condemned Thai politicians for showing support to Hong Kong activists amid mass anti-Beijing protests, saying that such a move could harm the relationship between the two countries. The criticism was echoed …
HOMOSEXUALITY has been a controversial topic across the legal and moral domains in China. Homosexual acts were officially decriminalised in 1997, but Chinese laws have yet to properly recognise or protect same-sex couples in the forms of marriage or de facto relationships. However, a recent development has given hope to …
Chinese consumers, a $4.9 trillion force, transformed the global economy. With their own economy slowing, they are pulling back. ZHENGZHOU, China — Forty years after China began its near-miraculous run as the world’s most powerful economic growth engine, its people are experiencing something new and unsettling: a feeling that the best …
Tolerance of diversity, not repression, is the surest way to govern a vast territory with many peoples. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China (P.R.C.) on Oct. 1, the party-state has much to celebrate: an unprecedented record of economic development, world-class education and technological innovation, …
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese Communist Party leader and President Xi Jinping led other top officials Monday in paying respects to the founder of the communist state, Mao Zedong, ahead of a massive celebration of the People’s Republic’s 70th anniversary that will emphasize its rise to global prominence. The unusual move …
