China
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Drum Tower
What China’s struggle with myopia reveals about the country
Our podcast on China. This week, why a simple precaution to help prevent short-sightedness is meeting resistance from Chinese families
Finance and economics
China’s last boomtowns show rapid growth is still possible
All it takes is for the state to work with the market
Asia
America recreates a warfighting command in Japan
The threat from China hastens the biggest military transformation in the Pacific in decades
Asia
Taiwan is beefing up its military exercises to counter China
The island’s new defence minister wants more practice and less performance
China
China unveils its new economic vision
It promises many reforms, but remains ambivalent about the role of the market
China
The noose around the press in Hong Kong tightens
Even advocating press freedom begins to seem a bad career move
Finance and economics
Why is Xi Jinping building secret commodity stockpiles?
Vast new holdings of grain, natural gas and oil suggest trouble ahead
Drum Tower
Is Xi Jinping doing enough to fix China’s economy?
Our podcast on China. This week, following the recent third plenum, we unpack the ruling party’s vision of economic reform
1843 magazine | The cruise that will get you chased by the Chinese coastguard
China is bullying its rivals in the South China Sea. For some tourists, that makes it a perfect holiday destination
The Americas
Cuba is out of supplies and out of ideas
Penury is pushing the island towards Russia and China
China
China’s ruling party sets out its vision of economic reform
The party sees no need for a decisive break with the past
China
The No.1 reason for success in China? Connections
People are starting to blame inequality on the system, not idleness