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Explore our coverage of China’s politics, economics, business and culture, in articles, charts, podcasts and video


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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

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China is itching to mine the ocean floor 

It wants to dominate critical-mineral supply chains

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

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China unveils its new economic vision

It promises many reforms, but remains ambivalent about the role of the market

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The nationalism of ideas

Xi Jinping wants Chinese systems of knowledge, free of Western values

Business

Can China smash the Airbus-Boeing duopoly?

It hopes to succeed where others have failed

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The noose around the press in Hong Kong tightens

Even advocating press freedom begins to seem a bad career move

Business

China’s robotaxis are racing ahead of Tesla’s

Baidu is leaving Western carmakers in the dust

Finance and economics

Why is Xi Jinping building secret commodity stockpiles?

Vast new holdings of grain, natural gas and oil suggest trouble ahead

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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

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China’s ruling party sets out its vision of economic reform

The party sees no need for a decisive break with the past

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The No.1 reason for success in China? Connections

People are starting to blame inequality on the system, not idleness

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