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Kevin Frayer / Getty China’s Zero Tolerance for Xi’s COVID Restrictions
The popular defiance is a direct challenge to the Communist Party leader’s authority.
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AUL LOEB / AFP/ Getty The World Could Be Entering a New Era of Climate War
Runaway climate change once seemed like it could spur violence. Now a different risk has emerged.
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Alex Brandon / AP Where U.S.-China Competition Leaves Climate Change
Just because the two powers have every reason to cooperate on the issue doesn’t mean they will.
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Getty / The Atlantic What Biden and Xi Can Agree On
The leaders of the U.S. and China are meeting amid high tension, but both have reason to lower the temperature. Here’s how they could.
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Illustration by Cristiana Couceiro. Sources: Bloomberg / Getty; … Taiwan Prepares to Be Invaded
If China wants to do something drastic, President Tsai Ing-wen told me, “Xi has to weigh the costs. He has to think twice.”
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty Behold, Emperor Xi
For China’s leader to rule indefinitely breaks Communist tradition—but returns to an imperial one.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic The U.S. Has a Microchip Problem. Safeguarding Taiwan Is the Solution.
A Chinese attack on the island would imperil the world’s supply of semiconductor components. Here’s how to offset that threat.
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic The Tech Site That Took On China’s Surveillance State
How did a trade publisher in Pennsylvania become a principal source of investigative journalism on the repressive apparatus Beijing uses against the Uyghurs?
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic; Getty China’s Mistakes Can Be America’s Gain
The United States does not need to take Xi Jinping’s attempt to project power at face value.
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Ceng Shou Yi / NurPhoto / Getty No More ‘Strategic Ambiguity’ on Taiwan
Joe Biden has moved closer to providing Taipei with a security guarantee. That makes sense given China’s aggressive behavior.
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Carolyn Drake / Magnum Xinjiang Has Produced Its James Joyce
And he’s now sitting in a prison camp.
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Kevin Frayer / Getty Zero COVID Has Outlived Its Usefulness. Here’s Why China Is Still Enforcing It.
The Communist Party’s real priority is protecting itself, not the public.
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Thomas Peter / Reuters Extreme Drought in Southern China
Recent images from Wuhan, Chongqing, Lake Poyang, and more
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The Atlantic; Alex Wong/Getty Biden Looks East
Despite the war in Ukraine, the president is fully focused on the challenge of a rising China, says National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan.
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Kevin Frayer / Getty Xi Jinping’s Radical Secrecy
This is not just a challenge for biographers. It makes China harder to predict and the world more dangerous.
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John J. Custer When Biden Went to China
His engagement with Beijing in 1979 was shaped by U.S. superpower rivalry with the Soviets. Today, his Cold War adversary is China itself.
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Taiwan Presidential Office / AP The Gamble of Nancy Pelosi’s Visit to Taiwan
Taipei is celebrating; Beijing is seething. This may prove a consequential moment in a looming confrontation between China and the U.S. over not just the island’s future but the world’s.
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John J. Custer Why Britain Changed Its China Stance
The cycles of London’s engagement with Beijing reveal how the U.S.’s ability to keep allies in line for its great-power competition is weakening.
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Getty; The Atlantic Seeking Sanctuary in the Old Empire
Many Hong Kongers are fleeing to Britain as Beijing imposes its own form of colonial rule and imperialist tendencies.
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Bloomberg / Getty What Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan Trip Says About China
The rancor over the House speaker’s potential visit reveals how badly Xi Jinping needs a new strategy.
