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In a nation where textbooks still teach that sex before marriage mars girls forever, Yao Sifan is offering a feminist take on the facts of life.
An oppressive ruling by the National People’s Congress Standing Committee — aided by a compliant Hong Kong judge — has silenced champions of democracy.
The government will build another metropolis from scratch. But it's not planning on following the old playbook.
The Communist Party's enthusiasm for private Confucian schools is cooling. It could be fearful of a moral system outside its control.
Shady deals. Befuddled investors. SEC investigations. Change can't come fast enough to the EB-5 visa.
Some parents prefer the invasive measure to lightly regulated, frequently brutal bootcamps.
Pressure to save, marry, and work leaves no room for democratic aspirations.
A Chinese regulation would prohibit online insults based on religion. Some decry it as antithetical to Communist values.
The 2017 race for Chief Executive was supposed to be a watershed exercise in democracy. Instead, it may be a coronation.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson surprised many by parroting Chinese talking points, but it's unlikely to signal a policy shift.
Beijing has been criticized for its Great Firewall and online censorship. Now it's looking prescient.
Peter Navarro doesn't speak Chinese, and has scant in-country experience. Should that matter?
The country's got all the right stuff to be a soft-power giant. But Beijing won't get out of its own way.
While Washington rips up trade deals, Beijing sees the region as a “land of vitality and hope.”
Uighur militant groups are splitting, and may now compete to see who can hit China the hardest.
As Russia’s war in Ukraine continues into 2023, the weather will have an important impact. Ukrainians, of course, are more vulnerable than usual to power outages and energy shocks. But Rus...Show more
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely the most popular elected leader in the world. No other politician has won so many votes in history. Few other incumbent leaders around the world...Show more
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Military spending can’t make up for the continent’s lack of military culture.
Middle-class people, it turns out, have limited patience for things like intrusive social monitoring and censorship of personal expression.
An oppressive ruling by the National People’s Congress Standing Committee — aided by a compliant Hong Kong judge — has silenced champions of democracy.
The government will build another metropolis from scratch. But it's not planning on following the old playbook.
