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Getty; The Atlantic How Hong Kong’s Elite Turned on Democracy
Beijing’s bludgeoning of the prodemocracy movement in Hong Kong would not have been possible without the enthusiastic help of willing collaborators.
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Noel Celis / Getty; The Atlantic Washington Is Getting China Wrong
A crisis at a property company exposes deep, dangerous, and often unrecognized weaknesses in the Chinese economy.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic Consensus Isn’t Always a Good Thing
Dissent is prevalent in Washington. When it comes to China policy, disagreement might help.
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Alamy; The Atlantic Where Biden Agrees With Trump
The Biden administration has been more skeptical of free trade than many predicted, and remains hawkish toward China.
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Robert Nickelsberg / Getty The People With the Most to Lose in a U.S.-China Cold War
During the standoff between Washington and Moscow, it was mostly people in poor, developing countries who paid the price.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic America’s China Strategy Is Working
Washington’s push against Beijing’s human-rights abuses could have more of an impact than tariffs or trade wars.
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Samuel Corum / Bloomberg / Getty Joe Biden’s New World Order
The United States has allied with Britain and Australia to form a new anti-China grouping.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic How China Weaponized the Press
A small Hong Kong newspaper illustrates how Beijing uses the tools of a free society to suppress freedom itself.
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Illustration by Valerie Chiang ; images by Greg … China’s ‘Very Tricky Situation’
Beijing’s gloating over America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan masks a deeper anxiety.
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Li Ran / Xinhua via Getty An ‘Early Test Case’ for a China-Led World
Beijing’s policies now that the Taliban is in charge will provide clues as to how it views global leadership.
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Matt Chase China Discovers the Limits of Its Power
Beijing’s confrontation with Australia should have been an unequal contest. That’s not how it worked out in practice.
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Getty ; The Atlantic The End of Free Speech in Hong Kong
The conviction of a pro-democracy activist is a watershed moment.
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Stephen Voss; Adam Ferris One by One, My Friends Were Sent to the Camps
Living through—and escaping—the Uyghur genocide
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Lintao Zhang / Getty China Isn’t That Strategic
The country is often portrayed as a master of long-term thinking. It’s not that simple.
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Peter Parks / AFP / Getty Preserving Hong Kong, in Miniature
Model makers Tony Lai and Maggie Chan have been working to preserve the Hong Kong of their childhood in miniature form.
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Associated Press Modern China’s First Diplomats
“To Americans, the arrival of the Chinese delegation seemed like the sudden appearance of aliens.”
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Tim Rue / Getty Joe Biden Worries That China Might Win
The president has put his finger on an important geopolitical development.
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Hector Retamal / AFP / Getty Trump’s Supporters Are Getting the Lab-Leak Story Backwards
If their thesis is right, it points to a course opposite what they propose.
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Qilai Shen / Bloomberg / Drew Angerer / … The Electric-Car Lesson That China Is Serving Up for America
Beijing’s push to build an entire industry from scratch helps inform how the White House should proceed.
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Huo Jianbin/Getty China Is a Paper Dragon
U.S. policy makers should look to the future with a little more confidence and a lot more trust in trade, markets, and the superior potential of a free people.
